Replacing One Polluting Sector with Another? The Perils of Shifting from Coal to Livestock in Cesar, Colombia
Feb 12, 2025
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Daniela Maestre and José Vega Araújo
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Governments seeking to reduce economic dependence on fossil fuels need to replace these revenue sources with growth in other sectors. SEI experts, using Cesar, Colombia as an example, advise diversifying a local economy with more sustainable sectors and production techniques to avoid the same pitfalls of relying on fossil fuels such as coal.