President Gustav Petro announced, at the Unified Command Post in Bosconia, Cesar, that he will declare “natural disaster in Colombianext Monday, October 31.
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The official proclamation will be made in the National Risk Council, and the purpose of this decision “will be to allocate the economic resources that remain from this year’s budget to deal with emergencies immediately“.
The president emphasized that these environmental crises are suffered by thousands of people and that, undoubtedly, there is an emergency that has been caused by the same human being.
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“Cesar lives a paradox that focuses on the climate crisis, I said it in my electoral campaign, here people suffer but this region also produces the chemicals that generate this pollution: coalPetro explained in his speech, this Friday, October 28.
The president also said that the workers who depend on this economic activity could focus on another sector: “There is a great opportunity in solar energy, for this it is necessary to make investments, know the panorama and change mentalities“.
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And he stated that the current climate crisis must be faced by the Risk Unit, but that his administration inherited a “corrupt” entity.
“Evidence will already be presented to the opinion, we are compiling it. There is a cartel of contractors who harm people who need help. It is not possible to manage the risk, which is simply to avoid it“, denounced the President.
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It is expected that the Financing plan that the Government is preparing will also be presented this Monday along with the themes in which it plans to invest: “There will be several billion pesos in the adaptation fund and in the Risk Unit (…) Thanks to declaring a disaster situation in Colombia, we will have greater economic capacity that will be spent immediately“.
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