of the action Description Objectives and/or goals Climate change planning and management instrument - Cross-cutting program The ECDBC is a national government program to coordinate the country&#39;s GHG mitigation actions in search of a low-carbon path for the economy. The ECDBC was formalized with the approval of document CONPES 3700 of 2011, which developed the first official institutional framework for the formulation and implementation of GHG mitigation and climate change adaptation policies (MADS, 2017a, pp. 3-4). The development of the ECDBC has had three stages: the first of design between 2011 and 2013, another of preparation of the NDC of Colombia between 2014 and 2015, and the third whose focus was the preparation for the implementation of the NDC, between 2016 and 2017 (Guerrero-Garcia et al., 2017, p. 18). The significant results generated by the ECDBC in the three stages executed are rightly meshed with new challenges and identified needs essential to achieve the low carbon development objectives in the country. The challenges defined the need to execute a new stage of the ECDBC to be developed between 2018 and 2019. The general objectives of the ECDBCC are: 1. Empower and motivate sectors to make decisions that reduce their GHG emissions in the future, achieving at the same time the growth goals they have and generating social, economic and environmental benefits; 2. 3. Create or promote the necessary tools to transform Sectoral Action Plans (PAS) into Sectorial Implementation Plans, including political, regulatory and financial aspects in order to achieve the reduction of GHG emissions trends ; 5. 6. Promote the management and implementation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in sectors and territories; 4. Promote the regionalization of mitigation actions in order to strengthen the capacities of the territories for the formulation of plans against climate change; Lead, formulate and promote the implementation of the NDC of Colombia to 2030 in mitigation; Generate the appropriate mechanisms for the MRV of the reduction of GHG emissions at the national level in harmony with the national information management strategies and international standards.1 7. Lead and formulate the 2050 strategy according to the PA mandate, in line with the global goal of carbon neutrality in the second half of the century (Guer