La política ambiental en Colombia: logros obtenidos y problemas a superar.

Abstract

The environment was issued in the 1991 Constitution as a right whose protection the State must guarantee. To this end, a number of entities were created, including the Ministry of the Environment –now the Ministry of the Environment– CAR and others, charged with ensuring their protection and being the highest authorities in matters of environmental administrative procedures. The term “sustainable development” was thus coined and a protectionist discourse was created which has been overtaken by the reality where the failure to regulate many procedures, lack of the human and operational resources to investigate and control the exploitation of the environment, rethinking the policies of protection of the same by means of expeditious mechanisms that make it possible, where the participation of citizens is encouraged through existing legal actions and the formulation of proposals directed to this end.