Escazú will have its second debate this Tuesday, May 17 in the Colombian Congress.

The Escazú Agreement seeks to guarantee access to environmental information, citizen participation in decision-making, access to justice, and capacity building for sustainable development.

Bogotá, May 17, 2022

On April 26, the Second Committee of the Senate approved in the first debate Bill 251 of 2021, which seeks to ratify the Escazú Agreement, which aims to reduce socio-environmental conflicts, guaranteeing access to environmental information, public participation in environmental decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters. In addition, Escazú seeks the protection of environmental leaders.
Therefore, the second debate to be held this Tuesday, May 17 at 3:00 p.m., which seeks to ratify Colombia’s accession to the Escazú Agreement, is of utmost importance. For this debate, the discussion of the positive report authored by senators Iván Cepeda, Feliciano Valencia and Antonio Sanguino is scheduled, who hope to have a quorum in the plenary and that the government majorities do not delay the ratification of the agreement, despite the fact that it was the same government that presented the bill to ratify it during the last legislature.

The importance of this agreement for Colombia lies in the considerable number of environmental conflicts and the difficult situation of environmental leaders, as it is the most risky country to assume this role in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its implementation can substantially improve access to environmental information and citizen participation in environmental decision-making, as well as access to justice in matters involving the use of natural resources.

From the Civil Society Roundtable for Transparency in the Extractive Industries we call on the Senators of the Republic to ratify the Escazú Agreement, in order to mitigate the socio-environmental problems that afflict much of the national territory and with a view to the 2030 Agenda and the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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