The Savannah and the Amazon: A Bond of Sustainability
With the purpose of bringing the economic sector of the Bogotá Savannah closer to the Amazon, through awareness of the importance of tropical forests and the urgency of stopping deforestation, on May 8 the Interreligious Initiative for Tropical Forests in Colombia held the seminar “The Savannah and the Amazon: a link of sustainability”, in alliance […]
IRI’s national programs share experiences and lessons learned to strengthen their work for the world’s tropical forests
The IRI-Colombia national team participated in the Second IRI Learning Exchange, held in São José dos Campos (Brazil), a meeting led by the Interfaith Initiative for Tropical Forests at the global level (IRI), whose objective is to strengthen the capacities of IRI’s national programs around the world. through collective learning, the result of reflection on […]
The environment, another casualty of the armed conflict
On April 4, the Interfaith Initiative for Tropical Forests in Colombia participated in the forum “The Contribution of Faith Actors in Peace Negotiations,” a space for dialogue in which leaders of different churches and faith communities reflected on their shared responsibility to promote actions, from diverse spiritualities, that contribute to the construction of a reconciled […]
IRI-Colombia discusses the challenges of the environment at the National Meeting of Directors of Social Pastoral Care
The balance of the protection and care of the environment and biodiversity in our country, as well as the challenges that the Interreligious Initiative for Tropical Forests has encountered in this matter in the exercise of its mission, were the topics on which Blanca Lucía Echeverry, national coordinator of IRI-Colombia, reflected during the “National Meeting […]
IRI Colombia looks ahead to COP 16
The Interfaith Initiative for Tropical Forests in Colombia is preparing to participate in the next Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Biodiversity, COP 16, which will be held from October 21 to November 1 in Cali. The objective of this important global event is to review the fulfilment of the […]
Flames put the world’s forests in harness
Between 2002 and 2022, 123.18 million hectares of forests have been lost to flames, and during the last five years, sixth-generation fires -also called mega-fires or firestorms- have become increasingly frequent, devastating thousands of hectares at great speed. The transformation of land use, climate change, the abnormal warming of the North Atlantic Ocean and the […]
