Global Greengrants Fund was awarded to the foundation Barranquilla+20 a grant that aims to strengthen capacities, provide information, organize scenarios, dialogues, research and create tools on carbon markets in Colombia, taking into account the participation and support of indigenous peoples and afro-colombian. Where you want to strengthen the knowledge of the people of the territories of the region Orinoquia, focusing on people in the department of Vichada, and in this way make sure that you have opportunities to represent our country in the national and international stage.
A group of 25 young people from different parts of the country involved in the Colombian Network of Youth for Biodiversity (GYBN for its acronym in English) said to the decision-makers of their priorities as young people about the care of the biodiversity is increasingly threatened by climate change, which is the most palpable of our time
For our work on biodiversity, we have participated in the COP12 and COP13 of the Convention on Biological Diversity made in Korea and Mexico, respectively. The Colombian Network of Youth for Biodiversity is the national chapter of the Global Network of Youth for Biodiversity, the commission of youth that are part of the negotiations under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a UN agreement signed by more than 150 government leaders at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, which promotes global goals that aim to halt the loss of biological diversity in the world. Barranquilla,+20 is one of the organizations that make up GYBN at the global level as part of the Steering Committee as well as we are also the Coordinators of the national chapter of the so-called Colombian Network of Youth for Biodiversity.
The Orinoco Fits is an initiative developed to highlight and recognize the impacts and actions in the area of adaptation and mitigation of climate change in the Basin of the Orinoco. This initiative was supported by 350.org as part of the subsequent actions at the Global Power Shift and was developed by Barranquilla,+20, and the Global Warning Agency. With the Orinoco Adapts created a set of tools in climate change for the region of the orinoco (primer on climate action campaign, digital and audiovisual production) material that you can access here and that he tried to conservation initiatives of pink dolphins and fish, protection of forests, protection of rivers with the Bita river, among others.
The Orinoco Fits is an initiative developed to highlight and recognize the impacts and actions in the area of adaptation and mitigation of climate change in the Basin of the Orinoco. This initiative was supported by 350.org as part of the subsequent actions at the Global Power Shift and was developed by Barranquilla,+20, and the Global Warning Agency. With the Orinoco Adapts created a set of tools in climate change for the region of the orinoco (primer on climate action campaign, digital and audiovisual production) material that you can access here and that he tried to conservation initiatives of pink dolphins and fish, protection of forests, protection of rivers with the Bita river, among others.
