Capacidad de los municipios de los Departamentos del Meta y Guaviare que forman parte de la Amazonia Colombiana para cumplir las órdenes de la Sentencia de la Corte Suprema De Justicia STC 4360 De 2018.

Abstract

The environmental issue in Colombia, and especially the deforestation of forested areas considered strategic, delimited as national natural parks, has aroused the interest of environmentalists and the attention of justice due to the weak exercise carried out by the public administration to make effective the rights and guarantee the present and future enjoyment of the national and world community; as with the pronouncement made by the Supreme Court of Justice in Sentence STC 4360 of 2018.

Likewise, the Constitutional Court has ruled on the legal protection of the environment in Sentence T 411 of 1992, as “a recognized universal need, a socially felt need, to give a forceful response to the intolerable aggressions suffered by the environment ”(Constitutional Court, C411, 1992). In sentence C 413 of 2000, it refers to the fact that the defense of the environment is an objective of our Social State of Law and in sentence T 622 of 2016 it recognizes nature as an authentic subject of rights.

However, notwithstanding the foregoing, there are deficiencies and limitations that do not allow the fulfillment of the objectives set out in the Constitutional Charter, such as the lack of effective coordination between State entities and the precarious availability of financial resources in the last link of the chain (municipalities), to promote, exercise control and eradicate deforestation in the areas of influence.