REVIEW OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COLOMBIAN REGULATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS, 2025

The present exercise sought to identify the main regulatory contributions to environmental issues in Colombia, and through these it was possible to carry out a review regarding their effectiveness, in order to understand how these norms are applied and, indeed, how they help to generate a better awareness of care for the environment. This task aims to generate recommendations that can help establish in Colombia the foundations of a "new ethical environmental agreement" through principles that can be understood as basic conditions that should influence the way of life of individuals and their social coexistence. This qualitative exercise sought to contribute to the development of an ethical environmental proposal based on the idea of Aristotelian virtue that allows for the apprehension of a culture of care for the environment; an exercise that aimed to highlight the need to shift from an anthropocentric paradigm to a biocentric one, understood as a way to shape in the being of each citizen a consciousness that reinforces the superior, ethical, and natural value of existence, so that future generations can enjoy the environment in a peaceful and efficient manner, without this representing a detriment to life as we know it. Finally, it was concluded that although Colombia has an ecological constitution and a number of normative, jurisprudential contributions and even a block of constitutionality in environmental matters, the effectiveness regarding compliance with the current regulations is insufficient to identify an exercise of environmental awareness and care by citizens regarding the available goods and natural resources, thus reaffirming the need for an environmental ethical proposal that allows impacting from home, society, and education the mentality of people regarding the use and abuse of natural resources.