Reseña

Coal is the most polluting energy source and one of the main causes of the increase in global temperature. In addition, throughout its production and commercialization chain, coal produces a series of impacts and damages to ecosystems, communities, territories and the environment. For this reason, coal is one of the greatest threats to the environment and to life.

Thus, since 2017, the Research Seminar on Energy Transition of the University of Magdalena has been jointly studying the impacts and realities of coal in the Caribbean Region of Colombia, in order to build, hand in hand with different actors of the territory an Energy Transition Agenda. This document brings together the results and reflections of the four Forums on Decarbonization and Transition of the mining-energy model. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the global coal chain, its history, commercialization and implications. Chapter 2 incorporates the concepts of climate justice and climate change into the coal production and consumption chain. Subsequently, Chapter 3 addresses the impacts of coal extraction and transportation in Colombia, and then, in Chapter 4, approaches to the fair transition in the territories. Finally, Chapter 5 explores the co-creation methodologies of the Transition Agenda and the development of co-creation spaces.

In conclusion, regional autonomy, guarantee of the rights of leaders, economic resources and investment, fair and sustainable alternatives, health and social reparation, participatory closure plan and territorial perspective were the 6 crucial points that, from the point of view of the communities, should be considered in a process of transition from coal to a productive reconversion in the departments of Cesar, La Guajira and Magdalena.