The twelfth version of Colombia Genera 2023 began, the most relevant event in the mining energy sector in the country, which between today and tomorrow at the Cartagena de Indias Convention Center will gather more than 40 experts in the field to talk about perspectives, challenges and progress of the energy transition.
The day started with the intervention of Mario Alejandro Valencia, technical director of the Productivity and Competitiveness Directorate of the Ministry of Commerce, who pointed out that the energy transition implies the reindustrialization of Colombia, as he believes that this is the material basis of growth and economic growth. stability, but it is also the way to meet social demands.
“There is a need for a reindustrialisation policy with an energy transition approach, seen as a great opportunity to transform the productive matrix with technology transfers, empowering human capacities so that this becomes a value-added process and as a means of generating wealth to meet meet the needs of the population,” says Valencia.
Reinier Grimbergen, chief advisor of TNO, participated in the first panel entitled: What is needed for a just transition? Cesar Loza, President of the Workers’ Union (USO); Blanca Patiño, National Project Officer – Point of Contact for Green Jobs and Just Transition of the International Labor Organisation, Alejandro Castañeda, Executive Director of Andeg and Nicolás Pareja, Director of El Universal newspaper.
In this room, they discussed the importance of dialogue and the active participation of all actors in these types of decisions that are made in the country.
In addition, they indicated that those decisions should take into account the economic vocations present in the territories.
For her part, Blanca Patiño, Country Coordinator (e) of the Office of the International Labor Organization for Andean Countries in Colombia, spoke about the challenges of the energy transition, emphasizing that they must “accelerate production processes and their improvement and thus see job creation; it generating macroeconomic policy and taking action against climate change”.
On this last front there will be 216 million internally displaced people in the world according to ILO calculations if no action is taken on climate change so discussions of this type currently taking place are critical and they agreed that it is vital It is important to involve all stakeholders in the transition process.
Source: El heraldo
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