Aerial view of the Matavén reservation. Image provided by the Etnollano Foundation. Colombia.
In December 2018, Colombian Environment Minister Ricardo Lozano received the international carbon pricing champion award on behalf of his government, for promoting innovative economic solutions to curb the climate crisis.
That day, words of praise for Colombia flew in the Polish city of Katowice, where the annual United Nations conference on climate change was underway. Dirk Forrister, who was once Bill Clinton s climate advisor and now heads the International Emissions Trading Association (Ieta), which awarded the prize, celebrated “yet another country using market mechanisms to advance the goals of the Paris Agreement”, which had been signed three years ago and which at last after several resounding failures paved the way for a new global consensus on how to solve the crisis before it becomes irreversible.
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The tour has begun! The cast and crew of Tomás and the Library Lady kicked off their tour across the Roanoke Valley in downtown Roanoke, outside Center in the Square, in the Roanoke City Market!