Despite the prominence given to fossil fuels by other governments, Colombia has recently made an effort to achieve a just energy transition. This has been accompanied by a moratorium on new hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation contracts, the signing of the Declaration of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Fossil Fuels, among other actions to decarbonize society.

At the same time, sectors favorable to fossil fuels have exerted pressure to perpetuate extractive projects. While the narrative of “gas as a transition fuel” and energy sovereignty is used to promote offshore gas projects, bills to ban fracking and unconventional deposits have not been approved by Congress. As for coal, the initiative to create a new mining law that would prohibit the awarding of new contracts for the exploration and exploitation of thermal coal remains unapproved.