News Posts Tagged Colombia
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GCFTF at COP30 Highlights: Strong Subnational Leadership, Strengthening Partnerships, and Advancing New Agreements
In November 2025, the 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) took place in Belém in the Brazilian state of Pará, a founding member of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCFTF). COP30 was dubbed “Implementation COP,” as it has been 10 years since the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21, and…
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Global States & Regions Summit in Rio
During the Local Leaders Forum organized by the Bloomberg Foundation and COP30 Presidency in Rio de Janeiro from November 3-5, 2025, Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCFTF) Governors and Environment Secretaries represented their jurisdictions and the full network. GCFTF Governors were invited to participate on panel discussions, plenary remarks, closing ceremonies, and bilateral sessions…
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First MIPA Technical Meeting
First Technical Meeting of the Mechanism for the Exchange of Subnational Public Policies for the Sustainable Environmental Management of the Amazon (MIPA): Regenerative Agriculture and Livestock Farming for Jurisdictions with Forests in Peru and the Amazon From October 27 – 29, 2025 in Pucallpa, Ucayali, Peru, subnational governments from across the Amazon, regenerative agriculture experts,…
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Video Release: Voices of the GCF Task Force 2025
In the wake of New York Climate Week and in the lead up to COP30, state and provincial leadership on climate, biodiversity, sustainable finance, and community-focused investments is more important than ever. The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force continues to support our member states and provinces in implementing their jurisdictional plans and climate solutions…
Governor and Delegates
Caquetá
Governor
Luis Francisco Ruiz Aguilar
Delegates
Lorenzo Andrés Vargas Gutiérrez
Advisor
lorenzoandresvg@gmail.com
Juan Pablo Jaramillo
Secretary of the Environment and Agriculture
agricultura@caqueta.gov.co
“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
“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
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