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Bogotรก - Colombia
District Secretariat of Enviroment The Environmental Department (SDA), for its acronyms in Spanish- It is the authority that promotes, guides and regulates the environmental sustainability in Bogotรก. Through environmental policies formulation the entity seeks to preserve the diversity and integrity of the environment, conserve the protected areas system and encourage the management and sustainable development of the natural heritage of the city.
Eastern mountains of Bogotรก - Colombia
Throughout its management, the SDA promotes harmoniums relations between the population and the natural environment, based on a differential approach and ensuring the implementation of collectives and fundamental rights relative with the environment. Our work lines are:
Environmental planning and management
Environmental evaluation, control and monitoring
Environmental evaluation, control and monitoring
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OUR STRENGTHS Environmental planning and management Through constant process improvement, the SDA is heading its human and technical resources in order that the city forward actions on climate change and planned around the water spaces. To consolidate this objective, the SDA works from an outline of environmental zoning that allows city model to include protected areas and risk management. Thus, vulnerability is reduced; the levels of resilience increased and generate conditions to maintain the territory biodiversity. Through sectorial interventions and collective decision-making on the territory, the SDA promotes respect for nature, defends life in all its forms and ensures ecosystem services provision in a permanent consolidation of our ecological structure. In this way, the protected areas coverage increased by 2013 in 19.161,84 hectares which is equivalent to 24.13 per cent, while the wetlands areas growth was approximately 43 per cent, including new areas, going from 676.6 hectares to 965.5 hectares.
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Fucha River Bogotรก - Colombia
Torca Wetland Bogotรก - Colombia
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Air Quality Improvement The SDA currently develops plans and programs to regulate the main generating activities of environmental contamination, such as industries (stationary sources) automotive transportation (mobile sources). These programs are:
Ten- years plan of air decontamination for Bogotรก.
Fixed and mobile sources control Plan of technological promotion Implementing integrated public transport system
Diesel content of sulphur control
Environmental self-regulation of mobile sources
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For the first time in more than a decade, a Capital City Administration achieved air quality this below to the limit allowed by the national standard, going down in more than 2 percentage points of PM10, heading the city towards the achievement of international standards.
TransMilenio Transport system Bogotรก - Colombia
Community Participation and Environmental Education
clusion of indigenous, afro-descendant and peasant population in the environmental education process. Consolidation of impact indicators on environmental education: have been formulated and implemented impact indicators that shows the scope of Bogota´s public policy, applied to the improvement of the life quality of its inhabitants.
Mirador de los Nevados Park Bogotá - Colombia
The SDA promotes the citizen participation and environmental education as a public policy and environmental management instruments for the social appropriation of the territory, consolidating alternatives that tend to good living. The main achievements in this area include: Environmental education processes and environmental classrooms strategy: have been linked more than 670.000 inhabitants of Bogota D.C. from different population groups through construction process that seeks recognitions, recovery and appropriation of the main ecological structure of the city. Ancestral knowledge recognition: We have developed affirmative action’s that promote the in-
Territory social appropriation processes: have been involved in incident and binding manner in the city environmental management, more than 175 organizations and social actors of the territory, allowing us to have legitimacy and recognition in our administration. Water governance: understanding the water as a right and a public good of people, we have been developed environmental planning participation process oriented to land-use planning around water and the generation of citizen strategies for the climate change adaptation. In this proposed analysis we have been developed and updated permanently 20 local records corresponding to each administrative unit of the city, which realize the initiatives generated by Bogotá citizens.
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OUR GOOD PRACTICES The SDA has carried out important processes that reported significant results and can serve as a model for other organizations, cities or countries. Among other good practices we have: • Protected areas ecological and environmental recovery. Since urban expansion in Bogotá has been against purposes of conservation areas (flora and fauna), the city resilience and good live, have been generated negatives effects on ecosystems and the population. Protected areas correspond to scenarios for historical reasons, associated with city dynamics, have been immersed in an urban environment in which both its structure as its functions have been strongly altered. The ecological structure recovery, conservation, management and preservation are essential for the ecosystem functioning, shows the people and institutional commitment to environmental governance in Bogotá.
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• Research and knowledge management. Bogotá environmental research plan, develop aligned with a cooperative perspective, from which we have generated lines of research aimed to generate and manage the knowledge of the city. The action lines are designated with their projects below: Strategic ecosystems and special interest species: o Invasive species control alternatives. o Dry forest and Andean xerofitia ecosystem. Occupation and land sustainable use – eco-urbanism: o Urban sustainable drainage system o Presumption soils with pollution or polluted. o Environmental economic instruments. Climate change mitigation and adaptation –environmental health: o Tools for climate change mitigation and adaptation. o Environmental health research and C02 capture. Information systems: o Biodiversity information system - BIS. o Bogotá´s environmental observatory. Clean technologies o Eco-material in infrastructure and buildings. o Reducing emissions methods for mass transit system.
Tingua pico amarillo (Fulica Americana)
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OUR STRATEGIC ALLIANCES In cooperation the SDA have agreements and alliances that contribute decisively to the development of the city. These partnerships have been signed with:
Japan international cooperation agency JICA
Switzerland cooperation Agency SDC
Network of cities integrated in the International Council for local environmental initiatives - ICLEI-
World Bank ONU-Hﾃ。ITAT.
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Sumapaz Moorland Bogotﾃ｡ - Colombia
OUR RECOGNITIONS The environmental management of “Bogotá Humana” has been awarded at local and international levels with the following recognitions: • Leadership climate change award and city C-40, granted to the city in 2013 by the best green initiative in transport category. • Two of our environmental classrooms, the ecological park of mountain – Entrenubes- and the park – Mirador de los Nevados- , were chosen within the seventh natural treasures of Bogotá as symbols of biological and cultural diversity.
EVENTS IN WHICH WE PARTICIPATE • Summit of mayors of Mega-cities C-40: “towards mega resilient cities livable - showing action, impact and opportunity”. Johannesburg, 2014 • VII World Urban Forum “Cities for life - equitable urban development”. Medellin, 2014. • RIO+20. June, 2014. • HABITAT III. Third Conference of the United Nations on housing and sustainable urban development. 2016.
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Santa María del Lago Wetland Bogotá Colombia
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District Secretariat of environment Address: Caracas Avenue N. 54-38 Telephone: 3778899 Bogotรก - Colombia
www.ambientebogota.gov.co
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