Climate Finance & Technology
Colombia
Technology Sharing
- An MoU on cooperation in Science and Technology between India and Colombia was signed in June 2005.
- An MoU on Bamboo Applications and R&D was signed between India and Colombia in November 2009. Under the MoU, Department of Science and Technology - the nodal agency from the Indian side - designated the National Mission of Bamboo Applications (NMBA) as the partner institute. A Colombian delegation visited India in October 2015 to pursue the implementation of the MOU on bamboo applications.
- Colombia is one of the founder members of the NAM S&T Centre in New Delhi. Colombia signed the Centre’s Statute in February 1985 in New York. COLCIENCIAS (the predecessor of Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation) has been representing Colombia as the Focal Point of the NAM S&T Centre. More than 15 scientists from Colombia have participated in the activities organized by the NAM S&T Centre with full financial support of the GOI. The NAM S&T Centre also has active cooperation with the Maloka Science Centre, Bogotá.
