“A strong corporation, with a fabulous technical team and I know that (the mayors) will be able to team up from the autonomy that each one has to fulfill all the responsibilities and the environmental challenge that they have these next 4 years,” said the Environmental Attorney of the Valley.
B-007 La Unión, January 22, 2024.
16 mayors of the Brut region and the north of the Valley were the first summoned by the CVC to the construction workshops of the 2024-2027 Action Plan, which will be the roadmap for environmental investment in the department and that could reach 2 billion of pesos.
“We are building the Action Plan with our mayors, with our businessmen, with civil society, with environmental organizations, with black and indigenous communities so that together we can structure everything that the CVC is going to do from 2024 to 2027,” said Marco Antonio Suárez Gutiérrez, general director of the CVC.
The leaders and their technical teams met with the CVC staff at the Los Viñedos de La Unión hotel in the first of a series of workshops with which the Corporation will tour the Valley doing the exercise of collective construction of the plan.
“We are already talking specifically with each of the municipalities about what we are going to do, what environmental problems they have, how we are going to solve them, what we may need so that, working together, we can make a greener and more sustainable Valley,” Suárez added. Gutierrez.
At the event, the Mining, Energy, Environmental and Agrarian Judicial Attorney of Valle del Cauca, Lilia Estella Hincapié Rubiano, explained to the mayors that her function, more than sanctioning, seeks to be preventive and management control and highlighted the CVC as “ the best Corporation in the country, a strong corporation, with a fabulous technical team and I know that (the mayors) will be able to team up from the autonomy that each one has to fulfill all the responsibilities and the environmental challenge that these next 4 years have. The world needs more green advocates.”
After presenting a general and specific diagnosis, the CVC delivered to each mayor the interventions planned in each municipality, all of which will serve as input for the construction of their respective development plans.
“It is extremely interesting, I think that the CVC has changed the methodology. They are no longer specific meetings but also advice and technical assistance. Today they are providing us with a series of data and instruments to be able to carry out territorial planning with the environmental component. For us today , that is the most productive,” said Germán Villaquirán, mayor of La Unión.
“I think that today’s session is very beneficial and we think that it will be very useful for our municipality in the territorial planning scheme,” said Miguel Mateos, mayor of the municipality of Ulloa.
“I feel super happy and grateful to the CVC for this very interesting exercise and that I know will contribute a lot to our development plans. All this compendium of data is going to help us a lot for the development plans,” she told her time Alba Marina Gómez, mayor of the municipality of Versalles.
According to the director of the CVC, although the Action Plan is being built, the intention is to strengthen successful programs such as For a More Sustainable Field, which delivers agroecology kits to peasant families and which will now include breeding stock. Innovation will continue in Environmental Education, for example, the Roque y Rupito series this time will address the issue of protected areas.
In addition, nurseries will be strengthened to exceed the number of 8 million trees planted and Wastewater Treatment Plants, WWTPs, will continue to be delivered to improve the quality of the water of the Cauca River.
From this workshop, the mayors even took away information about legal obligations such as interventions that they must carry out due to rulings prior to their mandates and that the CVC already has planned, as well as advice to access royalty resources through the Local Environmental Investment Allocation. in the cases that apply.
Projected by: Hermann Bolaños
Reviewed: Wilson García
2024-01-22 14:01:56
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