Colombia

NDC Status

Colombia submitted its third NDC in December 2025.

Key highlights from the NDC

• Colombia’s third NDC commits to an absolute emissions cap of 155–161 MtCO₂eq by 2035, representing a strengthening of ambition compared with previous commitments while maintaining the 2030 target established under the previous NDC.
• The NDC also reinforces efforts to reduce black carbon emissions, halt deforestation, and accelerate the transition toward a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy.
• A major innovation of Colombia’s third NDC is the inclusion of a dedicated Loss and Damage component. For the first time, Colombia recognizes losses and damages as a distinct pillar of climate action and proposes the development of a National Framework to coordinate actions across sectors, territories, and financing mechanisms. The NDC also highlights the importance of international cooperation and the operationalization of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD).
• Colombia’s third NDC establishes national adaptation priorities and measures aligned with the Global Goal on Adaptation, the SIIVRA information system, and the country’s Long-Term Climate Strategy (E2050), with a strong focus on resilience, risk reduction, water security, ecosystems, food systems, and vulnerable populations.
• On climate finance, Colombia identifies the National Climate Finance Strategy (ENFC) as the main framework for mobilizing resources and scaling implementation. The NDC promotes innovative instruments, including the expansion of the Green Taxonomy to biodiversity and adaptation, the Socio-Ecological and Just Energy Transition Portfolio, carbon markets, environmental funds, and other mechanisms to increase public and private climate investment.
• The NDC prioritizes action across agriculture, transport, energy, industry, environment, and territorial development while embracing guiding principles such as climate justice, just transition, water governance, biodiversity conservation, nature-based solutions, and peace with nature. It also mainstreams gender equality, youth engagement, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant communities, campesino populations, human rights, and intergenerational equity throughout its implementation framework.
• The United Nations system—particularly UNDP, FAO, UNICEF, and ILO through the Climate Promise—played a key role in supporting the development of Colombia’s third NDC. Their contributions helped strengthen participatory processes, integrate loss and damage considerations, identify mitigation and adaptation measures, promote the participation of Indigenous Peoples and youth, and ensure the integration of biodiversity, territorial development, and cross-cutting social dimensions into the country’s climate agenda.

NAP Status

Colombia submitted its National Adaptation Plan (Spanish) to the UNFCCC in February 2018.