Since 2012, Barranquilla+20 Foundation has advanced youth-, women-, and community-led climate action processes that drive territorial transformation across Colombia and Latin America.
We work to defend water, protect biodiversity, and promote climate justice by supporting initiatives that connect local knowledge, policy advocacy, environmental education, and strategic partnerships.
We believe in resilient, sustainable, low-carbon territories where children, young people, and communities play a central role in shaping the decisions that affect their present and future.
Barranquilla+20 Foundation holds an Equivalency Determination (ED) Certificate, a legal recognition confirming that we operate under the same standards as a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization, reaffirming our role as a trusted international partner for climate action and gender justice.
We advance climate justice through the defense of water, the protection of biodiversity, and the strengthening of local knowledge systems, with a clear focus on the leadership of women, youth, and children.
We work alongside women leaders and communities to foster intergenerational equity, gender equality, and territorial advocacy, contributing to the transition toward resilient, low-emission territories.
We build national and international partnerships to amplify transformative actions that integrate environmental sustainability, social justice, and women’s rights.
To contribute, alongside international networks, to the structural transformation of development models toward just, regenerative, and climate-equitable systems, where women, youth, and communities meaningfully influence global environmental governance.
Our values guide every decision, partnership, and action we undertake.
Climate Justice
We address the structural drivers of the climate crisis by integrating social equity, water protection, and biodiversity conservation.
Women’s Leadership and Equality
We recognize and strengthen the role of women as key agents of environmental and social transformation.
Intergenerational equity
We defend the right of present and future generations to a healthy environment and responsible decisions today.
Collective action
We believe in the power of alliances, networks, and collaboration to achieve lasting change.
Integrity and Ethics
We act with transparency, responsibility, and accountability toward territories and communities.
Care for Life
We understand the nature not as a resource, but as a basis of life, and to promote its protection and regeneration.
At Barranquilla+20 Foundation, we believe climate justice begins in the territories. Since 2012, under the leadership of Xiomara Acevedo, we have worked with women, youth, children, Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples, and coastal communities, promoting leadership, equity, environmental education, and social mobilization.
Initiatives such as MallorquínVIVE, Low Carbon Schools, and the Women’s Summits for Climate Justice, along with our engagement in global processes including COP16, COP27, and COP30, have positioned Barranquilla+20 as a pioneering and leading organization in Colombia and Latin America on climate change, biodiversity, water, and territorial justice.
Our commitment is to the defense of life in all its forms, the protection of territories, and the strengthening of the communities that inhabit them. We work to confront the structural causes of the climate crisis while promoting environmental justice, social equity, and gender equality.
Our initiatives combine innovation, social justice, and territorial action to foster sustainable, inclusive, and community-centered development pathways.
Strengthening and supporting socio-environmental processes and initiatives that promote sustainable territorial governance, civic participation, and ecosystem protection.
Advancing gender inclusion and the representation of historically marginalized voices, including women, children, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, rural populations, and LGBTIQ+ communities.
Promoting legal and territorial planning mechanisms that support climate adaptation and mitigation across urban and regional contexts.
Designing and co-creating programs and campaigns focused on climate change, ecological restoration, water governance, biodiversity conservation, and environmental democracy.
Global recognition of our commitment to climate action and sustainability: The work of Barranquilla+20 Foundation has been recognized by global organizations, youth networks, multilateral institutions, and international platforms dedicated to climate change, gender equity, and sustainable development.
Mainstreaming gender equity across all initiatives we lead or support.
Strengthening projects through innovative tools and approaches to address global change.
Leveraging legal, policy, and governance mechanisms to advance effective territorial advocacy.
Developing community-centered and cross-sectoral interventions.
Collaborating with local, national, and international movements and organizations.
We believe in purposeful participation and the power of partnerships to generate meaningful change. We welcome individuals, organizations, and networks to contribute knowledge, expertise, and capacities to strengthen climate justice, water protection, women’s leadership, and biodiversity conservation efforts.
We facilitate collaborative spaces grounded in clear goals, strategic planning, and shared commitment, aimed at strengthening climate justice processes and women’s leadership.
Barranquilla+20 Foundation is a youth-led, feminist non-governmental organization founded in 2012, advancing climate action, environmental education, and equity across Colombian territories.
You can join by completing the volunteer form. We offer opportunities for learning, collaboration, and participation in environmental and community-based initiatives.
Our initiatives have been developed in the Caribbean, the Orinoco and the South Pacific colombian, always in collaboration with local communities and strategic partners.
Our work is supported through donations, partnerships, and international cooperation funding mechanisms.
We focus on climate change, biodiversity, and water governance, integrating cross-cutting approaches related to education, empowerment, and environmental governance.
You can contribute by making a donation, sponsoring a project, or sharing our initiatives across your networks to help expand collective impact.
Majorcan LIVES is the name of our local campaign to clean up the swamp of majorcan and remove all the waste that occupies stis beautiful landscape. We Barranquilla,+20 and Ecological Consciousness, joined to make this happen celebrating the world earth day and the Global youth service day. We remove lots of waste, rubbish and we are planning more activities to engage the local communities to take care of this natural resource of life.
From the feminisms of Abya Yala and other sures, proposals have surfaced transformative linking the defence of the body-territory, the care economy, the ancestral knowledge and the climate justice as a common agenda to reshape the present and compete for the future.
In a context traversed by the triple planetary crisis —climate, biodiversity and pollution— it becomes clear that they are not isolated phenomena, but rather the result of a development model extraction, colonial, and patriarchal that prioritizes profit over life. Its impacts are felt disproportionately in the territories historically impoverished, as the
South pacific of Colombia, where converge the wealth biocultural and violence-structural.
Young leaders of Burundi and Colombia addressed the Sexual and Reproductive rights at the local level in 2 focused projects. Both Ngos, among them Barranquilla,+20, they found a deployment poor laws due to a governmental coordination ineffective, lack of cultural understanding, taboos, and little institutional support. The study sought to identify the challenges and needs of the local community in the implementation of the Education of the whole Sexuality (EIS) and to propose actions to close the gaps found.
Women for Climate Justice for the Construction of Peace and Security it is an investigation of Barranquilla,+20 in Huila and Santander North, carried out with IREX and USAID. Part of the Youth Excel, a program of 5-year USAID, aims to empower young people and Ngos led by them to strengthen development solutions.
Young people around the world prepare to take on a leading role in the defense of biodiversity. Led by the Global Network of Youth for Biodiversity (GYBN), official authority recognized by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and its national chapters, over 700 young people will participate in these summits in October 2024 in Cali, Colombia.
We have made it! The Ministry of the Environment has requested that the environmental authorities and institutions territorial urgent actions for the conservation of the ciénaga de Mallorquín in Barranquilla.
Global Greengrants Fund was awarded to the foundation Barraquilla+20 a grant that aims to strengthen capacities, provide information, organize scenarios, dialogues, research and create tools on carbon markets
Global Greengrants Fund was awarded to the foundation Barraquilla+20 a grant that aims to strengthen capacities, provide information, organize scenarios, dialogues, research and create tools on carbon markets
The science of climate change provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC has allowed to evidence (for many years, and many reports) the impact of human action
The science of climate change provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC has allowed to evidence (for many years, and many reports) the impact of human action
