Colombia has announced that it is the first Amazonian country to declare its entire Amazon biome a zone free of oil and large-scale mining. The announcement was made by Colombia\u2019s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Irene V\u00e9lez Torres, during a meeting of ministers from the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cColombia has decided to take the first step. We have become the first country in the Amazon basin to declare the entire Colombian portion of the Amazon biome a renewable natural resource reserve, protecting this biome from large-scale mining and hydrocarbon activities,\u201d declared V\u00e9lez Torres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are doing this not only as an act of environmental sovereignty, but also as a fraternal call to the other countries that share the Amazon biome, because the Amazon knows no borders and its preservation requires that we walk together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Colombian government urged the nations with a presence in the Amazon to build an Amazonian Alliance for Life to advance a just and sustainable energy transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The invitation was extended during the Meeting of Environment Ministers of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), held at the COP30 climate change conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Colombia aspires to make the Amazon rainforest the heart of climate action, environmental justice, and peace with nature, protecting it from conventional extractive activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 483,000 square kilometers are included in the ban on new mining and hydrocarbon activities, equivalent to 42 percent of the continental territory and approximately 7 percent of the South American Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMAGE CREDIT: Colombia hopes that the Amazon rainforest will be the heart of climate action, environmental justice, and peace with nature, protecting it from conventional extractive activities. Photo: EFE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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