Minister Gustavo PetroDuring his visit to Santa Lucia, Atlántico stated that Colombia should immediately consider and discuss whether to enter into an agreement. economic emergencyfacing and mitigating risks due to the climate crisis and increased precipitation over the next three months.
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Expressing his concerns about the approaching winter, Petro called for the discussion of measures to prevent the risks posed by precipitation.
“Of course I thought. Isn’t it time for an emergency? Members of Congress will be able to voice their opinions; the media at the national level, society as a whole, but if we’re going to experience a climate worse than 2010, then the country has to go into an economic emergency,” he said.
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He also stressed that the country is coming out of an emergency, covid-19now to face the winter.
“This is the drama of modern governments. We are experiencing covid, emergency has been declared. Covid has let go and we haven’t left yet—because the virus is out—and we’ve already entered another type of climate. “Both are of the same origin, and both sides are through science, the ultimate origin is that we’re throwing more and more coal and oil-derived gases into the atmosphere,” he said.
As a matter of fact, this week, the Government presented the climate forecast together with the map of critical points to be taken in the country and preventive measures before the second season, which started in September and will have strong effects when combined with the rains. The La Niña phenomenon and the second hurricane season.
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As Environment Minister Susana Muhamad explained; Yolanda González, director of Ideam; and Ungrd director Javier Pava, an informative and pedagogical campaign is currently being run in the country, coordinated by various organizations, to prepare Colombia for the challenges that the increase in precipitation will bring. This campaign is called ‘Game with the Rain’.
Caribbean and Andean regions According to Yolanda González, director of Ideam, they will be the ones to record the most precipitation. Particular attention should be paid to extreme events in these areas, where the millimeter of water that normally falls in a week or a few days will rain in a few hours.
During his Atlantic visit, where he met with several local leaders, Petro added: “We are living at the beginning of the climate crisis. Scientists say that we will be affected first in Colombia. They say that the climate conditions will be more and more. One of these changes that corresponds to us is called climate change adaptation. How do we organize ourselves so that it doesn’t hurt us? That’s what tena called us,” said the president.
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He also suggested making a risk map and “no one can live on this map”. They have to move to live better.
Likewise, he proposed the voluntary resettlement of the affected population and the establishment of a climate crisis committee.
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