A recent ruling by the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca has ordered the Colombian government, under President Gustavo Petro, to allocate and execute the necessary funds to pay energy and gas subsidies owed to low-income households across the country.
Frank Pearl, President of the Colombian Association of Oil and Gas (ACP) issued a stark warning about the direction Colombia is taking under President Gustavo Petro’s administration.
At the IV Sustainability Forum of the Colombian Association of Oil and Gas (ACP), a critical panel titled “Rethinking the Environment: New Competencies in Territorial Planning” addressed the complex and often ambiguous roles of Indigenous communities in environmental regulation.
At the IV Forum on Sustainability Milestones, Andrés Bitar, Vice President of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs at the Colombian Petroleum Association (ACP), emphasized the scale of the challenge facing Colombia in decarbonizing its transportation sector, a critical step toward meeting national and global climate targets.
At the closing session of the IV Sustainability Forum hosted by the Colombian Petroleum Association (ACP), a political panel of presidential pre-candidates spotlighted the future of Colombia’s energy sector, with a unified message: the country must reactivate hydrocarbon exploration to ensure energy security and economic stability.
Colombia’s Office of the Comptroller General (CGR) identified fiscal irregularities totaling more than CoP$2.1T (approximately US$550M) in projects funded by the General System of Royalties (SGR) between 2023 and 2025.
At the 4th Sustainability Forum organized by the Colombian Petroleum and Gas Association (ACP), a key panel titled “National and International Markets for Carbon and Biodiversity” brought together leading voices in environmental finance and policy.
A groundbreaking new study has found that Colombians are not only deeply concerned about the environmental crisis but also recognize their own role in causing and potentially solving it.
We didn’t attend the ACP conference last week in Cali because of a prior commitment but we cannot imagine that there were a lot of smiling faces.
On the third day of the XVII Congress of the Regional Indigenous Council, Colombia’s Minister of Environment (MinAmbiente), Lena Estrada Añokazi, reaffirmed the national government’s commitment to Indigenous Peoples and celebrated the progress made in shaping an environmental policy rooted in territorial and ethnic perspectives.
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