The OECD has highlighted Colombia’s high commitment to improving its strategies, performance and process control in the chemical, waste and environmental sectors.
As a result of the above, and the great effort on climate change and biodiversity issues, Minister Correa was elected chairman of a session during the OECD ministerial meeting last week in Paris.
Following Colombia’s official entry into the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in April 2020, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development has launched a roadmap to achieve proper compliance with its 75 environmental instruments.
Of these instruments, 22 were stipulated as pending post-access commitments, which arose as a result of a performance evaluation made to Colombia by the OECD at the time of its accession. Therefore, the Ministry of the Environment has been working hard to identify and adopt best practices and public policies through two central axes: the Environmental Policy Committee (EPOC) and the Chemicals Committee.
Throughout the years 2020, 2021 and early 2022, Colombia has worked, consolidated and submitted four formal reports to the OECD, exposing its progress against the areas identified for improvement. Thus, at the end of the first quarter of 2022, the overall balance of results of the OECD shows a really positive balance.
For the chemicals sector, nine of the 11 commitments were certified by the OECD as approved; in the case of waste, three of the five commitments received the same recognition, and for the environment sector, five of the six were approved, for a total of 17 instruments endorsed by the organization.
With this, Colombia has strengthened its action strategies with respect to programs for the management of industrial chemicals and the prevention of major accidents; environmental indicators and information, management of public environmental spending, material flows and resource productivity; and integrated waste management, paper waste recycling and beverage container recycling.
Currently, the country complies not only with its reports, but also with the benefits of being part of this organization, such as participating in the international working groups together with the member countries, with which it can share its knowledge and articulate strategies for action to address the sectoral deficiencies of each territory.
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