The Government of Colombia has identified green growth as critical to maintaining development in the years to come and has made it a priority to implement inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth principles into the country’s development planning. GGGI is supporting the Government of Colombia to establish green growth as a key framework for economic development. GGGI has partnered with Colombia’s ministry-level National Planning Department (DNP) to implement the Green Growth Plan project, which is:
- Mainstreaming green growth into the DNP’s National Development Plan 2014-18
- Supporting technical teams in the DNP’s Energy, Transport and Agricultural sectors to scope, analysis and propose green growth objectives
- Developing sector-specific green growth indicators and implementation strategies within the National Development Plan
- Supporting the formulation of a long-term green growth policy for Colombia
The overall objectives of this project are to establish green growth as a key element within Colombia’s National Development Plan 2014 -2018, build green growth institutional and human resource capacity within Colombia’s National Planning Department, support implementation of green growth as per the targets set for the 2014-2018 period and support in the establishment of a long term vision of green growth for Colombia.