Connecting sustainable development from Finland to Colombia
López, Arturo (2019)
López, Arturo
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019121025617
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019121025617
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This study is focused on evaluating how sustainable development and cooperation between countries and organizations can contribute to slowing down and helping us adapt to climate change. This can be illustrated by how Colombia and Finland could cooperate in sustainable development projects in a way that will be beneficial for the enterprises within the communities, as well as for the habitat, through the use of a Twinning project as a way to bridge the gap between EU and Colombia. Researching the Colombian market condition in order to understand the complexity of the country, market leads (insides) for internationalization of Finnish organizations or projects.
Accordingly, the first step will be analyzing Colombia´s market and its economy, understanding the developing model, and how biodiversity plays a role in sustainability. This thesis approaches neoliberalism as a factor of climate change and sustainable development as a solution to it. As mentioned, this research focuses on sustainable development as a solution for climate change, highlighting Finnish strengths regarding this topic. Consequently, it presents a project in which different NGOs have been working to connect these two countries, the twin lakes project or Lagos Hermanos. Organizations like Valajärven conservation association, Ciudad sostenible foundation, and gobernación del Valle del Cauca can engage in collaborative approaches to natural resource management with the benefit of leveraging resources between each other so that little time, staff, and funds available can be put to best use.
Research results showed that Colombia meets the conditions so that a Finnish organization may lead the twin lake project, helping the organizations to be more strategic in their initiatives and use of funds, as well as staff. The Colombia government is willing to sponsor the initiative.
Accordingly, the first step will be analyzing Colombia´s market and its economy, understanding the developing model, and how biodiversity plays a role in sustainability. This thesis approaches neoliberalism as a factor of climate change and sustainable development as a solution to it. As mentioned, this research focuses on sustainable development as a solution for climate change, highlighting Finnish strengths regarding this topic. Consequently, it presents a project in which different NGOs have been working to connect these two countries, the twin lakes project or Lagos Hermanos. Organizations like Valajärven conservation association, Ciudad sostenible foundation, and gobernación del Valle del Cauca can engage in collaborative approaches to natural resource management with the benefit of leveraging resources between each other so that little time, staff, and funds available can be put to best use.
Research results showed that Colombia meets the conditions so that a Finnish organization may lead the twin lake project, helping the organizations to be more strategic in their initiatives and use of funds, as well as staff. The Colombia government is willing to sponsor the initiative.