Colombia: Its environmental issues.

In recent decades, environmental problems have become complex scenarios from which countless reflections unfold on the circumstances facing modern society.

 According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), environmental problems are triggered mainly by human population growth and economic development (UNEP 2012).

Colombia is not alien to this reality. Despite being considered the second country with the highest  biodiversity within the fourteen countries with the highest index (Andrade 2011) and one of the richest in terms of water availability (OECD 2014), it faces intense processes of environmental deterioration that affect the physicochemical quality of the environment. Some of these environmental problems are:

Forest and soil degradation  

  

Deforestation

Loss of biodiversity

Overexploitation of renewable resources

Water pollution

Air pollution

What is colombia doing to combat environmental problems?

Colombia country has been fighting and trying to combat pollution through various strategies and projects, this year, through its program focused on the environment ( Colombia sostenible), it approved the execution of 69 projects aimed at promoting environmental conservation and sustainable production in the 16 subregions with Development Programs with a Territorial Approach, PDET.

Some of the proposals to combat environmental problems in this country are:

Collection of rainwater (collection of 200,000 liters of water per year)

Reuse of soapy water

Solar panel system

Classification and composting of organic waste (transformation of 180 Kg of organic waste into organic compost)

Some of the tourist places that contribute to the environment, for those who love ecotourism are:

Parque Nacional Natural Los Nevados

Isla gorgona

Amazonas

To take into account...