Biodiversity Action Plan 2024 -2030
The Colombian government, headed by the Ministry of Environment, completed the process of updating its NBSAP to align it with the Kunming Montreal Framework. This process was financially supported by the GEF “Support to early actions of the Global Biodiversity Framework”, UNDP implementation in synergy with TNC Colombia, GIZ and other national and international partners.
The process was led by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development started in 2023 and ended last September with the opening and closing of the Citizen Consultation on the final text of the Biodiversity Action Plan 2024 - 2030. The process of building the BAP was participatory, including more than 16 thousand people in the consultation processes, 23 regional meetings and 23 signed biodiversity pacts.
At the national level, the process involved the inter-institutional coordination of the ministries of Housing, Agriculture, Science, Commerce, Trade, Mines, Transportation, Health, Education, Interior, Justice, Defense, Equality, the Vice-Presidency of the Republic, the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute and the National Department of Statistics. At the regional level, 31 regional autonomous corporations (CAR), 3 urban environmental authorities, the 5 institutes of the national environmental system, delegates from 30 national natural parks, the business sector, non-governmental organizations, mayors' offices and governors' offices from all over the country participated.
The result of this process was the consolidation of a Biodiversity Action Plan that truly reflects the needs of Colombia's regions, that contributes to the fulfillment of commitments as part of the Convention on Biological Diversity and to achieving the 23 goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
The six goals established in the BAP are as follows:
Goal 1: Participatory planning
By 2030, at least 19 million hectares with loss of ecological integrity in continental and marine-coastal territories will be included in a participatory manner as determinants of land-use planning with biodiversity and climate adaptation criteria in planning instruments for decision-making in territorial management.
Goal 2: Territories with ecosystem integrity and regenerative models
By 2030, Colombia will have five million hectares reconverted to sustainable production models and with multifunctional restoration processes that guarantee the recovery of ecosystem functionality and the dynamization of territorial economies.
Goal 3: Boost the biodiversity economy
By 2030, 3% of national GDP will be contributed and 522,000 jobs will be generated through biodiversity economy models that guarantee sustainable productive alternatives based on knowledge and technological innovation to generate added value.
Goal 4: Addressing informality and containing crime
By 2030, 50% of the cases of environmental liabilities will be managed through mechanisms focused on their remediation. Likewise, at least 50% of products derived from biodiversity will be legally and sustainably obtained, marketed and used in municipalities of high biodiversity importance.
Goal 5: Governance of all sectors and society as a whole
By 2030, Colombia will have achieved 34% of the conservation and management of terrestrial, inland water and coastal marine areas, through systems of protected areas, OMEC and indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant territories, consolidating ethnic territorial rights, as well as measures to protect environmental defenders.
Goal 6: Sustainable financial models
By 2030, Colombia will have implemented sustainable financing models that mobilize resources from all sources and in the long term, guaranteeing transformational impacts in the territories through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in co-responsibility and under effective and equitable governance.
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