New York, September 22 (SP). “Colombia is a country that, for every GDP point, produces lower carbon emissions compared to the Latin American average, which is very lower than the world’s average.

More than 51 per cent of Colombia’s territory is rainforest, with a large predominance by the Amazon rainforest. We are making all the efforts and we want to make all the efforts to contribute in an efficient way in this fight of humanity against climate change.

In our country, 10 per cent of our territory has been declared nature reserve. We are promoting a program to protect our rainforests from the drug threat.

Illicit drugs crops had eliminated two million hectares in Colombia. We have progress with the Forest Keepers Families Program, watched by the United Nations.

Nine thousand Colombian rural families are committed to leave illicit drugs, to keep the areas free of illicit drugs, to supervise the forest recuperation.

The Colombian Government pays approximately two thousand dollars per family each year, and the supervision is in charge of United Nations.

In the only very important system, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest mountain range, with the highest altitude near the sea, we have progress with a great recovery process for drug elimination, to build some indigenous towns in the mountains, so that communities can be able gain back the environmental control of the mountain range.

Colombia is a country that is progressing greatly in biological fuels, in alternative energy sources. We have created all the incentives. For example, we are producing one million 800 thousand liters of biodiesel per day from African palm and we are testing other sources.

Two important points: in Colombia bio-fuels do not affect rainforests and we have enough land to avoid competition between bio-fuels and alimentary safety.

In Bogotá we are finishing 104 kilometers of massive transportation system, and that is being done in nine other Colombian cities.