On the Colombian facet, the assembly was led by Adriana Mendoza, Director of Financial, Social and Environmental Affairs of the Ministry of International Affairs in control of the Workplace of the International Affairs Ministry, Lilia Tatiana Roa Avendaño, Deputy Minister of Environmental Land Administration; Patricia Cortés, Director of Europe of the Ministry of International Affairs, María Saralux Valbuena, Director of Local weather Change and Threat Administration of the Ministry of Surroundings and Sustainable Improvement; and representatives of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit score.
On behalf of the European Union, the delegation was headed by Diana Acconcia, Director for Worldwide Affairs and Local weather Finance of the European Fee’s Directorate-Common for Local weather Motion, who was accompanied by Joerg Schreiber, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the EU in Colombia; Lukas Visek, member of the diplomatic Job Power for Carbon Pricing of the European Fee’s Directorate-Common for Local weather Motion; Alberto Menghini, Head of Cooperation of the EU Delegation to Colombia; Erik Dhaenens, Counsellor for Surroundings, Local weather and Employment of the EU Delegation to Colombia.
At this second dialogue, the senior officers from either side agreed to proceed to work collectively to speed up the inexperienced power transition and sort out urgent local weather challenges.
This Dialogue comes after the EU and Colombia established the premise of a high-level dialogue in 2022. The EU and Colombia are certain by robust financial ties, frequent values and a shared dedication to democracy, human rights, social justice, sustainable growth and the rules-based multilateral world order.
In the course of the dialogue, either side mentioned joint priorities and challenges together with the trail in direction of local weather neutrality, the simply power transition, in addition to cooperation on adaptation and local weather finance. Each events exchanged on the state of play of the preparation of their Nationally Decided Contribution (NDC), which will likely be submitted forward of COP30 in Brazil. Either side reaffirmed their unwavering dedication to the Paris Settlement and the necessity to scale-up motion on this decade to drastically scale back emissions to maintain a restrict of 1.5°C temperature rise inside attain.
Colombia and the EU additionally exchanged on carbon market insurance policies and finest practices launched to make their economies much less carbon-intensive and polluting. They mentioned Colombia’s plans and EU’s experience on organising efficient and honest carbon pricing.
Either side stand able to mutually help one another as a way to attain the goals of the inexperienced agenda and reaffirmed their dedication to advertise a stronger bi-regional partnership for the safety of local weather and biodiversity and agreed on their intention to incorporate this as a serious space of curiosity within the political declaration and the EU-CELAC Roadmap to be adopted throughout the subsequent Summit of Leaders between the Neighborhood of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union, that will likely be held in Colombia throughout the fourth quarter of 2025.
