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Nationally determined contribution (NDC) Analysis

Colombia - 2030

Summary
Reference to Women/Gender
Submitted Language
Spanish
Submitted Translation
Yes
Type of Support
Unconditional
Monitoring and/or Implementation
Monitoring
Implementation
NDC Commitments
Mitigation
Adaptation
Participatory Process for NDC Development Mentioned
Yes
File Url
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Timeframe 
Between 2016 to Business‐as-Usual Scenario (BAU) by 2030
Relevant Context 

Colombia is a middle-income country with six natural regions and cultural diversity, with a climate-dependent economy. Mitigation and adaptation plans targeting the effects of climate change have the potential of facilitating peace in territories where pr

Process for Developing NDC 

NDC was developed based on a review within the framework of the Colombian Low­‐Carbon Development Strategy, analyses were performed with high technical rigor to explore trajectories to decouple GHG emissions growth from national economic growth. Analy

Description of Monitoring and/or Implementation Mechanism 

Plans to achieve the NDC include a National System of Adaptation Indicators that allows the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation and adaptation measures.

Colombia - 2030

Summary
Reference to Women/Gender
Context of Gender Reference
Adaptation
Mitigation
Gender Tags
GS
WVG
Submitted Language
Spanish
Submitted Translation
No
Monitoring and/or Implementation
Implementation
NDC Commitments
Mitigation
Adaptation
Participatory Process for NDC Development Mentioned
Yes
File Url
Download NDC View NDC in Browser
Timeframe 
2020 to 2030
Relevant Context 

Colombia is a middle-income country with six natural regions and rich cultural diversity, and a climate-dependent economy. Mitigation and adaptation plans targeting the effects of climate change have the potential to facilitate peace in territories where

Process for Developing NDC 

This update is a product of multiple efforts and processes at the national, regional, and local level. These processes complied with the public participation requirements to the extent required by Colombian law and provided spaces to work with relevant st

Description of Monitoring and/or Implementation Mechanism 

The update is consistent with national and local plans, such as sectoral and territorial Climate Change Plans, the Comprehensive Deforestation Control and Management Strategy (EICDGB), the Colombian Low Carbon Development Strategy (ECDBC), and the Nationa

Summary of Gender Reference 

References to gender are present throughout the text of Colombia’s updated NDC. A gender approach is utilized when mobilizing public participation in the country. In its discussion of its national circumstances, the document recognizes the importanc

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Related Resources

AILAC Submission: Information on the progress, challenges, gaps and priorities in implementing the gender action plan (GAP) and future work to be undertaken on gender and climate change

UNFCCC Submission Download

Author 

  • Independent Alliance of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC)

Year 

2024

Country 

Citation 

Independent Alliance of Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Information on the progress, challenges, gaps and priorities in implementing the gender action plan (GAP) and future work to be undertaken on gender and climate change Mandate: Decision 15/CP.28, para. 2. UNFCCC Submission.
Gender Analysis & Assessment Policy

Colombia Submission: Information on the progress, challenges, gaps, and priorities in implementing the gender action plan (GAP) and future work to be undertaken on gender and climate change

UNFCCC Submission Download

Author 

  • Colombia

Year 

2024

Country 

Citation 

Colombia. (2024). Information on the progress, challenges, gaps and priorities in implementing the gender action plan (GAP) and future work to be undertaken on gender and climate change Mandate: Decision 15/CP.28, para. 2. UNFCCC Submission.
Gender Analysis & Assessment Policy

Gender and Environment Data Alliance: Roots of Change

Online Event

Author 

  • WEDO, ARROW and WEP

Year 

2023

Country 

Citation 

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) and Women Environmental Programme (WEP). (2023). UNFCCC COP28 Side Event.
Data

Transformative Pathways Climate and Gender-Just Alternatives To Intersecting Crises

Report Download

Author 

  • Gina Cortés Valderrama, Valeria Pelàez Cardona, Agnes Mirembe, Fatou Ndoye, Maria Victoria Bojacà, Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki

Year 

2023

Country 

Citation 

Cortés Valderrama G., Pelàez Cardona V., Mirembe A., Ndoye F., Bojacà M. V. & Leikeki S. E. (2023). Transformative Pathways Climate and Gender-Just Alternatives To Intersecting Crises. Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF).
Agriculture & Land Just Transition and Critical Minerals

Gender, Climate Change and Security

Video

Author 

  • DCAF Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance

Year 

2022

Country 

Citation 

DCAF Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance. (2022). Gender, Climate Change and Security. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7N0yq1wqhGDEuPplLkZsEVkHdnCCyiV.
Training

Transformative Pathways: Climate and Gender-Just Alternatives to Intersecting Crises

Report Download

Author 

  • Gina Cortés Valderrama, Valeria Peláez Cardona, Agnes Mirembe, Fatou Ndoye, Maria Victoria Bojacá, Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki, Sarah Fisher Davis.

Year 

2022

Country 

Citation 

Valderrama, G. C., Peláez Cardona, V., Mirembe, A., Ndoye, F., Bojacá, M. V., & Leikeki, S. E. (2022). (rep.). Transformative Pathways: Climate and Gender-Just Alternatives to Intersecting Crises. Women Engage for a Common Future.
Agriculture & Land Community-Centered Solutions Environmental Justice Women Environmental Defenders

صوت المرأة الترابط بين المناخ والنوع االجتماعي واألمن على أرض الواقع

Report Download

Author 

  • Megan Bastick and Camille Risler

Year 

2022

Country 

Citation 

مركز جنيف لحوكمة قطاع األمن، صوت المرأة: العالقة القائمة بين المناخ والنوع االجتماعي واألمن على أرض الواقع )جنيف: مركز جنيف لحوكمة قطاع األمن، 2022.)
Environmental Justice Women’s Participation and Leadership

Brechas de género y cambio climático: la desigualdad como factor de vulnerabilidad

Report Download

Author 

  • Jimena Cortés Mora y Natalia Perilla Palacios

Year 

2021

Country 

Citation 

Cortés, J., & Perilla, N. (2021). Brechas de género y cambio climático: la desigualdad como factor de vulnerabilidad. Documento de la serie “Adaptarse es cuestión de género”. Plan Nacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático . Bogotá: Programa de Preparación para la Adaptación Nacional al Cambio Climático con apoyo del Fondo Verde para el Clima.
Gender-Based Violence

Género y Cambio Climático: Guía para la integración de enfoque de género en proyectos, programas, planes y políticas del Sector de Transporte

Toolkit Download

Author 

  • Gobierno de Colombia

Year 

2021

Country 

Citation 

Colombia. Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, Programa de las Naciones Unidad para el Desarrollo -PNUD / Casas, J. A. y Pinilla, P. E. (2021). Guía para la integración de enfoque de género en proyectos, programas, planes y políticas del Sector transporte [Recurso electrónico]. Bogotá D. C., Colombia. Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, 2021.
Gender Budgeting Policy Transport

The Climate-Gender-Conflict Nexus: Amplifying Women's Contributions at the Grassroots

Report Download

Author 

  • Dr. Jessica Smith, Lauren Olosky, and Jennifer Grosman Fernández (Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security)

Year 

2021

Country 

Citation 

Smith, D., Olosky, L., Grosman Fernández, J. (2021, January). The Climate-Gender-Conflict Nexus (Rep.). Retrieved https://giwps.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Climate-Gender-Conflict-Nexus.pdf
Conflict, Displacement, and/or Migration Grassroots Organizing

Gender [im]balance in productive and reproductive labor among livestock producers in Colombia: Implications for climate change responses

Other Download

Author 

  • Diksha Arora, Jacobo Arango, Stefan Burkart, Ngonidzashe Chirinda, Jennifer Twyman

Year 

2020

Country 

Citation 

Arora, D., Arango, J., Burkart, S., Chirinda, N., & Twyman, J. (2017). Gender [im]balance in productive and reproductive labor among livestock producers in Colombia: Implications for climate change responses. CCAFS Info Note; CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS): Copenhagen, Denmark.
Agriculture & Land Gender Analysis & Assessment

Realizing Women’s Rights to Land and Other Productive Resources (second edition)

Report Download

Author 

  • UN Women and OHCHR

Year 

2020

Country 

Citation 

United Nations (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights), & United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). (2020). Realizing women’s rights to land and other productive resources (second edition) (2nd ed., Publication No. HR/PUB/13/04/Rev. 1). Geneva, Switzerland: OHCHR and New York, New York: UN Women
Agriculture & Land Gender Analysis & Assessment Policy

Women Waste Pickers and Community Organisations of Bogota Building a Sustainable and Inclusive City

Webpage

Author 

  • Women and Gender Constituency

Year 

2019

Country 

Citation 

Women and Gender Constituency. (2019). Women Waste Pickers and Community Organisations of Bogota Building a Sustainable and Inclusive City. http://womengenderclimate.org/gjc_solutions/women-waste-pickers-and-community-organisations-of-bogota-building-a-sustainable-and-inclusive-city/.
Community-Centered Solutions Health, Nutrition and/or WASH

Submission by Costa Rica on Behalf of the AILAC Group of Countries Composed by Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay and Peru on Item 16 of the SBI Agenda: Gender and Climate Change

UNFCCC Submission Download

Author 

  • Costa Rica

Year 

2016

Country 

Citation 

Costa Rica. (2016). Submission by Costa Rica on Behalf of the AILAC Group of Countries Composed by Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay and Peru on Item 16 of the SBI Agenda: Gender and Climate Change. UNFCCC Submission in Response to the Mandate 18/CP.20, paragraph 15.
Policy

Submission by Costa Rica on behalf of the ailac group of countries composed by Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay and Peru on item 16 of the sbi agenda: gender and climate change

UNFCCC Submission Download

Author 

  • Costa Rica

Year 

2016

Country 

Citation 

Costa Rica. (2016). Submission by Costa Rica on behalf of the ailac group of countries composed by Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay and Peru on item 16 of the sbi agenda: gender and climate change. UNFCCC Submission in Response to Mandate FCCC/SBI/2016/L.16, paragraph 5.
Policy
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