Context:

What is the carbon footprint:

The carbon footprint is known as "the totality of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted by direct or indirect effect of an individual, organization, event or product". Such an environmental impact is measured by carrying out an inventory of GHG emissions or a life cycle analysis according to the type of footprint,. The carbon footprint is measured in mass CO2 equivalent. Once the size and the footprint are known, it is possible to implement a strategy of reduction and / or compensation of emissions, through different programs, public or private.

Climate change:

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over an extended period of time (decades to millions of years). It may refer to a change in average weather conditions or in the temporal variation of average long-term conditions (eg, more or less extreme weather events). It is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by the Earth, plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions. Some human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often called global warming.

The armed conflict in Colombia

The internal armed conflict in Colombia is a low-intensity asymmetric warfare that has developed in Colombia since the 1960s until the present time.25 The main actors involved were initially the Colombian State and the far-left guerrillas, adding decades later Extreme right-wing paramilitary groups, drug cartels and criminal gangs. It has gone through several stages of recrudescence, especially since the 1980s when some of the actors began to finance drug trafficking.

Peace Agreements

The talks / peace negotiations between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), also known as the peace process in Colombia, were the talks that took place between the Government of Colombia (on behalf of the State) and the Guerrilla of the FARC. These dialogues took place in Oslo and in Havana and resulted in the signing of the Agreement for the Definitive Termination of the Conflict in Bogota on November 24, 2016.

The signing of the peace agreement was preceded by the dialogues that took place in Oslo and in Havana. The first peace agreement, signed in Cartagena, according to the law was to be endorsed in a plebiscite in which the citizens had to vote "yes" or "no" to the Agreement. The final result was a victory for the 'no'. The result of the plebiscite forced the government to "renegotiate" the agreement taking into account the objections of the opponents of the agreement, while creating uncertainty about the legal application of the agreements.5 6 7 After a period of negotiation with the promoters of the agreement Not the government and the FARC agreed a new text for the peace agreement which was signed on November 24 at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá. This new agreement was ratified by the Senate of Colombia and the House of Representatives, on November 29 and 30.

Motivation

Many people, not to say that most people on this planet talk about climate change and social problems like poverty and forced displacement, immigrants, but a large minority does actually do something concrete and concrete to help these two serious Problems, the world changes with our actions and example not with our opinions, for that reason and to be part of the change with concrete actions, the CULMOS foundation was born to effectively and concretely contribute to these two serious problems.

After 50 years of war in Colombia, a new era begins in the hope of peace and to sustain this peace, it is necessary to help the affected communities, which are more than 6 million displaced persons who wish to return to their lands and have a means of livelihood.

After a long research he found that growing a humble plant such as bamboo could at the same time be a solution to social and environmental problems and its impact will be as great as the support received to this cause.

The objective is to help those affected by the armed conflict in Colombia, and at the same time to help the environment. The bamboo crop is perfect for this because of its carbon dioxide capture properties and also does not require pesticides, it grows extremely fast up to 1 meter a day, one hectare of bamboo absorbs one ton of carbon dioxide a year and retains up to 30,000 liters Avoiding desertification of the soils.

Bamboo is 40 percent more effective than trees in sequestering carbon dioxide and is up to 300 times more efficient than other methods man-made to sequester carbon dioxide and up to 60 times more economic and is much easier to implement

No matter where in the world you are or where in the world carbon dioxide is captured, the atmosphere is responsible for bringing carbon dioxide across the planet and can be captured anywhere.

Capturing carbon dioxide reforestation with trees is slow it takes more than 20 years to get results, and some species such as pine and eucalyptus dry the soils and are very combustible Chile has just lost 600,000 hectares due to forest fires.

The industrial plants to capture carbon dioxide are very expensive, cost 3 billion euros and capture about one million tons of carbon a year, this same result with the crop costs 60 times less and is 300 times more effective since These industrial plants take about 4 years to get into operation.

Colombia has 2.5 million hectares suitable for growing bamboo and more than 6 million internal refugees living in urban poverty and want to return to the countryside and have a livelihood.

No matter where on the planet you live your actions affect the whole world, pollution is global, fortunately equally no matter where solutions are established to capture carbon dioxide these also have a global effect, the same applies to social problems.