Colombia
Governor and Delegates
Caquetá
Governor
Arnulfo Gasca Trujillo
Delegates
Lorenzo Andrés Vargas Gutiérrez
Advisor
lorenzoandresvg@gmail.com
Ancizar Marin
Secretary of Planning
planeacion@caqueta.gov.co
News from Colombia
Spotlight on Colombia: Reducing deforestation amidst COVID-19 pandemic
As the world confronts the second half of a tumultuous year spearheaded by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated impacts on forests, we look to Colombia for positive news after the Ministry of Environment presented the results of their 2019 deforestation monitoring...
Innovation Funding Window B Announcement
The Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force, together with its partners Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is pleased to announce the launch of a new Innovation Funding Window under...
Strength in Unity: IP/LC Global Committee Convenes in Oaxaca
Oaxaca, México—This week marked a landmark moment wherein the Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force Global Committee for Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities (IP/LC Global Committee) convened in Oaxaca, México, to strategize on collaborative climate action...
“The most important part of the deforestation reduction strategy that we have been implementing in the department of Caquetá is our efforts to reclaim the ancestral knowledge of ethnic and peasant groups related to forests, as well as aligning the different national, territorial and institutional planning tools with sustainable forest management to generate a forest economy framed in green growth. Together, the efforts of the national, regional, departmental and local government are aligned to reduce deforestation with the support of the international community, NGOs and, most importantly, the civil society of the Department.”
–Lorenzo Andrés Vargas Gutiérrez, Advisor to the Governor of Caquetá