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Colombia: Green Growth Policy – CONPES Document 3934 of 2018
Start Date:
2018
End Date:
2030
Description
Long-term national policy approved through CONPES Document 3934 of 2018 to guide Colombia toward a sustainable economic growth pathway through 2030. Its objective is to increase national productivity and economic competitiveness while ensuring the sustainable use of natural capital, social inclusion and climate compatibility. The policy promotes efficient use of water, land, energy and raw materials; transition toward resource-efficient and low-carbon production processes; circular economy approaches; greening of agriculture and other productive sectors; development of a sustainable forest economy; bioeconomy, bioprospecting and biotechnology; green businesses; renewable energy and electric mobility. Implementation is supported by science, technology and innovation, human-capital development, green finance, information generation and intersectoral and institutional coordination.
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Investments and Public Expenditure
(2 records
- USD 9,087,663.00
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Innovative Green Businesses
This is a program developed by the Office of the Mayor of Bogota through the Secretariat of Economic Development in partnership with Biointropic, Connect Bogota Region and CleantechHUB Colombia, for 250 initiatives in Bogota to advance to the next level through the strengthening of their product, process, or service innovation plan -with a focus on sustainability-, and the completion of pre-commercial validations for 30 initiatives. The program includes: 1)Green Business Training. 2)Green Gateway: an initiative to give visibility to your initiative. 3)Connecting space to promote alliances, synergies, and business relationships with potential for those involved. 4)Up to 30 initiatives with the best innovation plan will be selected, which will receive an economic contribution for preparation and pre-commercial validation.
Support for R&D&I programs and projects that contribute to solving the challenges established in the mission "Bioeconomy for a living and diverse Colombia towards a knowledge-driven society".
The program aims to contribute to the sustainable socioeconomic development of the country, from and for the regions, by supporting R&D&I programs and projects aimed at developing, validating and commercializing products and processes with high added value in the market, based on the efficient management of biomass and the sustainable use of biodiversity and its ecosystem services. This program has two modalities: MODALITY 1: Strategic alliances are organizations formed by at least one national Higher Education Institution (HEI) with current institutional accreditation of high quality and a public, private or mixed research center or institute, or a technological development center, public or private, or an innovation and productivity center, at least one national HEI not accredited and at least one entity of the national or international productive sector with presence in the country, that develop R&D&I programs focused on solutions to the challenges of the Bioeconomy Mission. MODALITY 2: In this modality the proposal may be submitted by one or several entities. Those entities classified here as Executing Entities may submit and execute proposals in their own name and those classified as Collaborators / Beneficiaries must be submitted in association with an executing entity.