With digital tools, Colombia promotes the development of business plans for climate change management

This Minenergia release was published using machine translation.

Minenergy. Bogotá DC, January 28, 2021 . Within the framework of the commemoration of the World Day for the Reduction of CO2 Emissions, declared by the United Nations, the Ministry of Mines and Energy, through its Comprehensive Climate Change Management Plan, presents a series of virtual tools and that will allow the country's mining and energy sector industries to formulate their climate change business plans.

According to the United Nations, it indicates that "there is currently a greater understanding of the effects of carbon dioxide on the climate, which has made it possible to identify that current emission reduction actions are not sufficient to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. . " These tools developed by the Ministry of Mines and Energy seek to promote greater commitment on the part of the sector's actors to reduce and mitigate their CO2 emissions.

The mining-energy sector has a Climate Change Management Plan, with an ambitious goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 11.2 million tons by 2030. In this way, the Ministry of Mines and Energy is the first to adopt a a plan of this nature through a regulatory act, and to Colombia, the only country in the region with a specific plan for the mining-energy sector.

ABC Primer of the Comprehensive Climate Change Management Plan (PIGCCme)

The ABC primer of the PGCCme presents basic concepts that will strengthen your understanding of climate change and its relationship with the mining-energy sector. Understanding the general context of challenges and opportunities will allow promoting timely and adequate actions aimed at reducing vulnerability and facilitating low-carbon development, which strengthen and protect the sustainability and competitiveness of the mining-energy industry.

The ABC of the PGCCme is available for consultation at https://pigccme.minenergia.gov.co/public/uploads/web_documentos/6012d58848076.pdf

Climate Change Business Guide

With the support of the Raw Materials and Climate Project, implemented by GIZ and financed by the German Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Mines and Energy, an interactive platform for voluntary and free use, with which companies in the energy, oil and gas subsectors , mining of coal, gold, nickel, copper and stone aggregates will be able to:

• Estimate greenhouse gas emissions from 2010 to 2020 and project possible emissions to 2030.

• Identify the climatic risks that could affect the operation of companies in the scenarios of climate change, and El Niño and La Niña phenomena.

• Estimate the carbon sequestration potential of voluntary or mandatory reforestation processes framed in the so-called forest offsets.

• Identify measures to mitigate greenhouse gases and adapt to climate change.

This tool, unique in the country, will allow citizens to have a supply of energy and minerals generated in environments with low CO2 emissions. In the coming days, the Ministry of Mines and Energy will enable the entry of companies in the mining-energy sector with this tool.