Colombia

Colombia’s Climate Change agenda is implemented under the National Development Plan 2010-2014 (NDP) and based on the following 4 pillars:

• National Climate Change Adaptation Plan
• Colombian Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS)
• REDD Strategy
• Strategy on Financial Protection for Disasters

Colombia’s domestic mitigation action is focused on emissions reductions from the transport sector. Transport makes up 12% of the country's emissions profile. Colombia applies an "Avoid, Shift, Improve" policy approach to emissions mitigation from transport. This means encouraing policies that avoid the need to travel (i.e., supporting work from home options), that shift toward more efficient forms of transporation (i.e., public transport instead of individual transport), and improve vehicle technologies and fuels, and standards.

Colombia's LED complements the PMR work. Specifically, as part of the strategy, Colombia is buidling future scenarios for GHG emissions, identifying and prioritzing mitigation actions, and building abatement cost curves and cost  & benefit analysis of those actions. This work will contribute to sector-specific action plans (including transport), a monitoring, reporting, and verification system, and a mechanism to channel international finance to support mitigation.