CORPOGUAJIRA anticipates the possible effects of the girl in the last quarter, POSSIBLY THE GIRL PHENOMENON IN A RAISE 76%: Ideas

By: Maria Angelica Egurrola H.

Activate national committees, departmental and municipal in which the CARs participate and convene a meeting of the National Environmental System - Institutional SINA, to determine the guidelines, and national guidelines regarding knowledge and reduction of the effects of the La Niña phenomenon, It is the commitment of the MADS at the request of the Regional Autonomous Corporations (CAR).

This request is made taking into account the IDEAM announcement of the increase in the probability of occurrence of the La Niña Phenomenon, for the last quarter of this year, in a 76% and by the experience of the past La Niña Phenomenon 2010-2011. The responsibility for the effects of climate variability lies with the National Risk Management System.; however the law 1523 establishes that actions must be shared between the different institutions that are part of the system.

The Autonomous Regional Corporations are part of the National Risk System, but the direct responsibility falls on the territorial entities. In the department, Corpoguajira, In its preventive actions, it carries out studies to understand and reduce risk., such as watershed planning and management plans, It also carries out educational campaigns aimed at risk reduction and aimed at mitigating the effects of La Niña., accompanied by activities such as cleaning and removing debris from river beds, ravines and wetlands, Together with the Red Cross they work on the interpretation of IDEAM information and the design of contingency plans.