Colombia

Colombia

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🧍‍♂🧍‍♀️ 50,882,900 🏭 Annual emissions 97.27 mt CO2 South America

Colombia's Climate Change Impact

Positive

  • 🎉 Pledge net zero by 2050 (under discussion)
  • 🔋 73% of electricity is from renewables
  • 🌊 Uses hydro power (71%)
  • 🌅 Other renewables power (~1%)

Negative

  • 🚗 No pledges to ban ICE vehicles
  • 🤮 8% of electricity still from coal
  • 🛢 Electricity from oil (1%)
  • ⛽ Electricity from natural gas (16%)

Percentages rounded from 2019 data.

📈 Colombia is rank 39 out of 195 countries for Climate Change.

How would you rate Colombia's Environmental Impact?

Is the Colombia part of the IEA (International Energy Agency)?

No, Colombia is not a member or an association of the IEA.

What is Colombia's renewable vs fossil fuel energy mix?

Colombia uses 73% energy from renewable sources compared to 26.05% energy from fossil fuel sources.

Colombia's Climate Change Action

A list of some of Colombia's common climate change questions.

Have Colombia's government pledged to ban diesel and petrol cars?

Currently there are no plans by Colombia's government to ban ICE cars, such as diesel and petrol..


Have Colombia's government pledged to be a net zero country?

Yes, Colombia have pledged to be a net zero country by 2050.


Does Colombia's electricity mix still contain coal?

Yes, Colombia's electricity does still contain coal as part of the countries energy mix.

Does Colombia's generate nuclear electricity?

No, Colombia's does generate nuclear electricity.

Colombia's Climate Change Resources

National Climate Change Entity

Are you looking for your countries department for action against climate change? If so, the website below is Colombia's dedicated environment and global warming resource. We encourage everyone to put pressure on local and national government's to put climate change high on their priority and to push forward with climate positive laws.

Directorate of Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development

Colombia's Comparison Against Countries

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