Colombia

• Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $3,289,155 CAD

  • 2020 to 2021: $1,817,393 CAD
  • 2019 to 2020: $1,176,296 CAD
  • 2018 to 2019: $295,466 CAD

• NovaSphere
  

This project supports efforts by the Pacific Alliance and Western African countries to:
• Increase awareness and familiarization of climate targets, policies and the status of climate MRV systems in each nation in order to strengthen MRV capacity and support NDC implementation.
• Support approaches to strengthen institutional arrangement, climate governance structures and improve the effectiveness of national climate MRV systems within each nation.
• Support harmonization of climate MRV within the region, including mitigation activities, emission inventories and climate finance.

The project provides support to the Pacific Alliance's Technical Sub-Group on MRV and Climate Change (SGT-MRVCC) to implement the Presidential Mandate to cooperate on MRV in a manner that helps mobilize climate finance, enhance ambition of climate actions and support NDC implementation with the Pacific Alliance.

To support the countries to achieve these objectives, the project will engage in capacity building, provide technical expertise, and facilitate inter- and intra-regional collaboration and dialogues.

• Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $3,323,602 CAD

  • 2020 to 2021: $773,605 CAD
  • 2019 to 2020: $1,268,603 CAD
  • 2018 to 2019: $1,281,394 CAD

• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
  

The expected outcomes of the project include:
• Elimination of 289,160 tonnes CO2eq of HFCs used annually for the manufacturing of refrigeration equipment in Mexico and the Dominican Republic;
• Ratification of the Kigali Amendment by beneficiary country governments;
• Capacity building for government and industry stakeholders to fully implement the Kigali Amendment once ratified, including through the development of legal and regulatory instruments, raising awareness with respect to the ratification of the Kigali Amendment, the development of national HFC phase-down strategies, and training of stakeholders.

• Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $504,553 CAD

  • 2018 to 2019: $4,553 CAD
  • 2017 to 2018: $500,000 CAD

• International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
  

This project supported Pacific Alliance countries in upholding their collaborative commitments under the 2017 Cali Declaration to strengthen their GHG and SLCP emissions MRV systems, as well as their collaborative commitments under the Paris Agreement to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

This project provided technical expertise and supported cooperative dialogue to identify opportunities to develop a work plan to support MRV collaboration in the Pacific Alliance and the implementation of the Alliance’s Action Plan of the Technical Group on Environment and Green Growth (GTMACV). Dialogue and scoping resulted in the establishment of the Technical Subgroup on MRV and Climate Change (SGT-MRV), a sub-group formed to conduct technical exchanges, capacity building, and analysis among the national agencies responsible for the implementation of climate policy in each member country of the Pacific Alliance.

This project provided further technical expertise and coordination support that enabled the SGT-MRV to provide advice to the GTMACV on how to strengthen regional MRV collaboration in response to the Pacific Alliance’s 2017 Cali Declaration commitment.

• Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $3,155,000 CAD

  • 2012 to 2013: $2,705,000 CAD
  • 2011 to 2012: $450,000 CAD

• Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP)
  

Canada’s support led to specific results in each of the four recipient countries:

• Canada's support in Chile was aligned with Chile’s national waste strategy and with the implementation of the “Catalyzing Organic Waste Diversion in the Chilean Industries” Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) that aimed to create a new market of organics diversion mainly from industrial sources.
• In Colombia, Canada provided support for technical assistance to develop an integrated approach for waste management. A pilot phase in the city of Cali has helped identify changes that could be made to overcome various existing policy, financial, market and social barriers.
• In the Dominican Republic, Canada’s contribution supported the development of an integrated approach for waste management in the tourism industry that aims to replace fossil fuel combustion with alternative energy sources; conducted a preliminary feasibility study; and, the implementation of a pilot project in Punta Cana.
• In Mexico, Canada supported the development of feasibility studies in the City of Colima while building capacity through the delivery of an educational program for Mexican experts. To date, a workshop was held in Colima to bring together key policymakers from the national and local governments and to further Mexico’s development of their national mitigation strategy for landfill and waste management.

• Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $850,000 CAD

  • 2012 to 2013: $850,000 CAD

• Parks Canada & Parques Nacionales Naturales
  

This project has begun work on updating management plans for 25 protected areas to strengthen the value of these sites in helping Colombia adapt to the impacts of climate change. This contribution also supported ecological restoration activities that will be initiated in six parks to help reduce the vulnerability to climate change of ecosystems and associated human populations.

• Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $265,241 CAD

  • 2012 to 2013: $265,241 CAD

• CAR del Alto Magdalena
  

This project developed and delivered training modules that certified 437 participants in "Environmental Risk Management in the Context of Climate Change" in four regions of Colombia.

• Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $3,000,000 CAD

  • 2012 to 2013: $1,900,000 CAD
  • 2011 to 2012: $1,100,000 CAD

• Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada
  

Canadian technical and financial assistance to Mexico and Colombia supported the development and implementation of mitigation actions for Short-Lived Climate Pollutants at selected oil and gas facilities through capacity building, feasibility studies and pilot projects. The deployment of Canadian technologies established energy intensity and emission baselines that form the basis of comprehensive national planning in the oil and gas sector.