This leaves Claudia López's economy and environment portfolios for Bogotá News today

Just days before his administration ended, Economic Development Secretary Alfredo Bateman and Environment Secretary Carolina Urrutia spoke out. the viewer About the work of their portfolios during these four years under the administration of Claudia Lopez.

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Among the difficulties on the way were, no doubt, epidemics; However, contingency would have created a need for innovation in both portfolios To tackle the problems of unemployment and inequality especially among women.

“In June 2020, the unemployment rate in Bogotá was between 25 and 26%, at a critical moment, Currently it is 9.2 percent. A good part of it was due to the work of merchants” said the secretary.

Also, the latest statistics Dane pointed out that Bogotá was able to recover more than a million jobs lost to the pandemic. Today it employs almost 300,000 more and has an unemployment rate of 9.2%.

According to Bateman, the effects of the pandemic, such as employment gaps, continue to take their toll. “The problem is that the population of women and young people is more affected than others.”

While the company has managed to close the unemployment gap opened up by the pandemic, the historic gap remains, particularly along gender lines.

Faced with this, the Environment Secretary, in addition to unemployment, The epidemic placed a heavy burden on women's care work, Those who are deprived of autonomy and subjected to other forms of violence.

For this, From that portfolio they created the Mujeres que Verdessen project, which was developed in partnership with the United Nations. and implemented $600,000 in cash transfers to more than 8,000 women for 20 hours per week of work in hedgerows, orchards, horticulture and invasive species removal. Also, 1,200 people were employed to work in the swamps.

Economic development

For Alfredo Bateman, economic development is a 15-year-old portfolio, however, “it has always been given very little budget and relevance.”

According to him, his first objective was “to make an impact.” Furthermore, the pandemic highlights the importance of this sector in terms of employment and productivity.

Economic achievements and challenges

Bateman highlighted the employment agency's results of reaching 70,000 workers by 2023.

The second thing is business lines, these are: local production Bogotá, which is micro businesses.

The most impactful is Manufacturing Bogotá, which is the companies and Rural Manufacturing Bogotá, which is the agricultural producers. The third thing is progress related to science, technology and innovation campus.

For Batman, Future Secretary, María del Pilar López Uribe, who is an economist and historian of the Andes, to strengthen the programs already in place. And he stressed that there are things that can be more ambitious, such as internationalization issues. And what needs a more detailed perspective is that Bogotá is 24 hours.

environment

The Environment Secretary, Carolina Urrutia, says that when she received the portfolio, she identified big differences between the administrations of Enrique Peñalosa and Claudia Lopez.

Emphasizing that Peñalosa focuses on problems such as environmental authority, permit and permit, “We also, but recovered the ability to propose innovative policies based on public principles. In addition, changes in the face of the climate crisis.

Some environmental achievements and challenges

In addition to Mujeres que Reverdecen, Urrutia highlights the Climate Action Plan. “We were not clear about what we were emitting, how many emissions we were generating, from which sectors we came. So we came up with a policy, which became a conbase,” he added.

According to Urrutia, in Canbes, there are plans and budgets for the construction of wastewater treatment plants, and the Dona Juana landfill becomes a technology park from being the recipient of all our waste.” The third job highlighted by Urrutia is the planting of 610,000 trees.

Finally, Urrutia notes that Future Secretary Adriana Soto, An economist and a master's degree in public policy from the High School of Government of the Andes, he must implement the decrees and resolutions signed by the current administration.

“There are very important issues of contaminated soil, the implementation of POT regulations and that should build on the trust we have left and continue to move forward,” Urrutia concluded.

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