The Corpoguajira Planning Advisory Office, With a multidisciplinary technical team of the entity, he has been leading the development of working groups with the Planning Secretaries and Advisors of the municipalities of La Guajira, with the purpose of achieving articulated and participatory environmental management in the peninsula; where they provide advice on the environmental component and territorial planning, that must be incorporated into Development Plans 2012-2015. These tasks are carried out with the coordination of the advisors of the National Planning Department. – DNP.

The interest that Municipal Mayor officials have shown in knowing environmental policies and incorporating them into their planning instruments is recognized., as well as in the implementation of environmental planning actions, risk management, territorial planning and climate change.

“We are very pleased that the municipalities are receptive to receiving from the Corporation, support to strengthen their skills in territorial planning and environmental planning; since in this way, Not only will possible sanctions be avoided, but that we will be able to achieve, in an articulated and participatory manner, harmonious environmental management with the territory and with the sustainable development of La Guajira.” said Engineer Luis Manuel Medina Toro, Head of the Corpoguajira Planning Advisory Office.

The scope of advice and delivery of information, They addressed issues of the Law 388 of 1997, Risk management, Comprehensive Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Plans- PGIRS y PGIRSPEL, environmental procedures, Municipal Environmental Management Systems – FOLLOW, the powers of the Corporation as Environmental Authority, water resources, the investment of municipalities in environmental sanitation of strategic ecosystems (acquisition of properties in aqueduct supply basins), coastal areas, remuneration rates, Basin Planning and Management Plans – POMCAS and Climate Change, among other environmental obligations.