Articulación de las políticas de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático con la minería en Colombia. Formulación de propuesta de debate político

Abstract

The fifth permanent constitutional commission of the Senate of the republic known agricultural regime; ecology; environment and natural resources; allocation and land reclamation; fish resources and marine issues; mining and energy; regional autonomous corporations. Responsible for giving first debate bills (Law 3 of 1992), and that its functions does political control is understood as the constitutional role of surveillance has the Congress for actions and / or omissions of state officials in particularly the executive branch and request information about their functions and their development. And public control to summon any person, natural or juridical, to the effect that surrender statements, oral or written, on facts relating to the investigations that the Commission forward (Law 5 of 1992). In order to give continuity to the work of the Commission for policy analysis of environmental order in which it is discussing issues such as mining and climate change it has been proposed to generate the articulation of policies for adaptation and mitigation climate change mining in Colombia to denote the own correspondence of these issues. Climate change is the major statistical variation in the mean state of the climate or in its variability, persisting for an extended period (typically decades or longer). Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or changes in the external forcing, or to persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use. (LEY 1523, 2012) This issue is a reality, and has important effects on the socio-economic development of the country. Changes in climate may embody a threat. The country must adapt to the threats related to climate variability (periods of rain and drought intensified by the phenomenon "El Niño" and "La Niña"), as well as those produced by the variation in precipitation, temperature rise Global and local temperature changes, which bring floods, melting glaciers and fires, among other events. Moreover mining as the mining glossary (2191 DECREE 2003) is science, techniques and activities that have to do with the discovery and exploitation of mineral deposits. Strictly speaking, the term relates to underground work aimed at start-up and treatment of an ore or rock associated. In practice, the term includes open pit operations, quarries, alluvial dredging and combined operations including treatment and processing underground or surface. When going to deal with either of these two themes always have to refer to make or consult a diagnosis of each parameter and will definitely be forwarded to the importance of measuring, know and the role of natural resources as do compact tools important for decision-making and proper management of national natural resources. This way he gets like this debate as it should handle mining in relation to national biodiversity and ecosystem services knowing that his loss is a severe limitation of the partner ecosystem resilience and an obstacle to focus on climate change mitigation and in ecosystem-based adaptation. Apart from own mining parameters that contribute to climate change such as emissions, discharges and energy consumption