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Hey. How do you do?
How do you do? How do you

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do? This is Pepe Morón speaking
and I welcome you to this new chapter

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of RCN Radio' s echo podcast. Today, we are all talking about

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climate change, but what climate change
is. Climate change is nothing but the

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variation of the temperature of the planet. Earth this for some human activities,

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such as the use and burning of
fossil fuels, as well as deforestation.

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Today a special and comprehensive programme to
discuss this subject that undoubtedly affects us all

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and has caused an increase in global
temperatures, in addition to the changes in

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the rain patterns that we have seen
in our country in recent years. So

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you know prepare a coffee, look
for a little corner, comfortable and prepare

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for this journey around the environmental world. Welcome, Eco Podcast, because the

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environment is a theme for everyone.
Climate change is not only an environmental problem,

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but also a social and economic problem, because it affects some sectors such

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as agriculture and health. In addition
to that, it affects the energy supply,

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the energy we need day by day. Precisely to discuss this issue.

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We have a special guest expert on
this and it' s going to help

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us understand a little more what it' s about. It is Mr Gian

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Paolo Dagger, who is manager of
external relations and sustainability in Colombia and Central

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America and who we welcome to this
chapter of the co- podcast of rs

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on Radio. Thank you very much
for the invitation. Good Pepe. We

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' re talking about global warming.
From you let us give an initial perspective,

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or what reading you do to this
term that we have heard above all

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in recent years and that we see
little by little, it is affecting us

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look or not b and turn on
the television opens a newspaper, a magazine

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and will find that climate change is
a phenomenon that is already part of the

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day to day of humanity. We
found record temperatures, we started to find

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gales, extreme weather situations and that
is part of some way of what has

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to be managed, in some way
by countries, by companies, by citizens.

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In this way, we see increasingly, within the framework of the commitment

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of countries, within the framework of
the Paris Agreement, countries making a commitment

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to reducing their emissions. In the
same vein, companies like Colombia have set

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targets to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. We, as a company, set

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ourselves a goal for the year two
thousand forty to reduce precisely these emissions.

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And also how we are developing it, because we are going through the implementation

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of new renewable energies. We are
also going through projects to electrify energy consumption,

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i e replace fossil energy consumption with
clean renewable energy and thereby support cities,

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industries and citizens throughout this energy transition
process. The phenomenon of the child,

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for example, or the phenomenon of
the girl child are some of those

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that are directly related to the issue
of global warming and, moreover, are

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phenomena that have directly to do with
the distribution of energy in our country.

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You see how these natural phenomena really
affect you as energy distributors and how much

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you can do about it when you
look at the phenomena, both of the

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boy and the girl, are phenomena
that have always happened. The great or

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great change we are experiencing is the
situations so extreme that we are living with

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these phenomena. Then we begin to
see phenomena or rains with much higher precipitations,

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or we begin to see electric shocks
with different frequencies and intensities, or

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in empren ns we will also see
much more extreme droughts. When we are

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talking about the phenomenon of the child, when one looks at the electricity sector,

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all the components of the electricity sector, in each of their stages,

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are affected by these climatic events,
then we can see precisely how generation activities

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can be affected by phenomena of both
the child and the child. The same

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transmission of energy and additionally the distribution
of energy when it does not look punctually

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at phenomena, for example, a
child, because it makes us have a

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lower amount of water available to generate
energy in a country somehow generates additional stress

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to the system. When you look
at these events, also in the case

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of distribution networks, they also begin
to occur over heating equipment, fires that

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can affect the distribution of energy,
among others. And when we also see

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that phenomena, such as that of
the girl child, with climatic events of

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high rainfall, also in the case
of our energy, which is hydroelectric energy,

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the main source that the country has
at the moment, because many times

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these increasing ones that go with the
rivers contribute more of sediments to the reservoirs

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can affect the same functioning of the
units of generation. But additionally these also

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rain events in the distribution business,
because they can also generate precisely a greater

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fall, for example, of trees, a greater amount of electric shocks on

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the electrical networks in the same service
of the operation and maintenance, being able

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to access from one place to another
in order to be able to make maintenances

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is made difficult by the same state
of the tracks. So, in the

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end we see how we are in
some way vulnerable also as a sector to

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these extreme weather events that can be
presented, because it is so important that

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in our reality that today, as
we see happens in the city of Bogotá,

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people take care of the water in
this dry season and how this relates

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to the generation of energy when we
look, because the care of the natural

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resources must be an activity that must
already be immersed in each one of us.

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That is, not only in an
extreme climate event we should think about

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taking care of natural resources in a
different way, but simply always. That

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mentality and awareness must be maintained towards
the preservation of resources. When we look

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at an extreme phenomenon, such as
a drought phenomenon, such as the child

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phenomenon, these phenomena somehow create stress
in the hydroelectric system. Colombia' s

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energy matrix is mainly a matrix that
is dependent on water. Then, when

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we have decreased levels of reservoirs in
some way, it is either so or

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it generates or generates risks at some
point of being able to have rationings or

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it makes change all the planning of
the operation and maintenance activities to guarantee the

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reliability of the energy resource for the
citizens. But also phenomena, also as

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a climate phenomenon, such as children, can also be generated over heating in

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the same networks, generating fires that
can also affect the same operation as those

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of energy distributions. Well, we' re talking about drought, we'

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re talking about the level of reservoirs
that we' ve heard so much about

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in recent months because of the issue
of the child phenomenon and how they affected

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the power supply. You mention a
godmother. I think right away about what

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this means for Colombia, because I
also understand there are other types of technologies

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that can help the provision of energy
service and you in it handle these issues.

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Tell us about this, what it
is precisely to take advantage of all

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the great amount of natural resources that
we have in a country like Colombia.

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For more than seven years the Group
has been promoting different energy developments and on

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time, in the Colombian Caribbean we
have been implementing and building different solutions,

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also based on solar energy, photovoltaic
projects. At this moment we already have

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a park built, already delivered for
the Colombian electrical system more than seven years

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ago called El Paso, located in
the department of César. We are currently

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close to entering into commercial operation a
project called La Loma, also located in

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this department, a project called Fundación
in the Magdalena department and we are in

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stages of testing a solar project called
Guayapo one and two in the Atlantic department.

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All these solar projects complement the energy
matrix of Colombia, guaranteeing precisely the

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security and reliability of the Colombian energy
system. Well, up to this point

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I hear him talk about the consequences
of drought in a country like Colombia and

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its relationship to the energy issue.
But when it rains and I ask him

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why we are already close or adported
to the phenomenon of the girl, the

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hurricane season that was announced for the
month of June and many rains for the

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country. There is also a risk
in the energy issue. Let' s

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talk a little bit about those risks
and how you guys plan on it.

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From the neone, when we look
at an extreme situation, as it can

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also be the rains, also the
electrical system, because it has, is

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also vulnerable to precisely all these phenomena. When we look from the field of

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generation, it can occur increasing in
the rivers that somehow involve a greater drag

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of sediments that can put in operation
in difficulty the operation of the units of

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generation. When we look at the
distribution networks. There may also be electrical

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shocks affecting the networks or also contact
of the nets with vegetation, whether by

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falling branches, falling trees, may
at some point also affect the same operation.

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No more, the displacement of our
crews to do operation and maintenance activities.

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They can also be affected precisely because
the rain tracks can also present landslides

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that can affect the same displacement of
our workers in order to carry out their

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normal operation and maintenance activities. In
your presence, the experts are very important

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because they help us to do pedagogy
and I would like to take advantage of

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your meeting with us to give us
some recommendations on the subject of rains,

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energy and the environment. When we
look, we are somehow generating awareness.

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When we talk about consciousness, it
is awareness about the use of natural resources.

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This always makes us think about making
a very good use of the water

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resource, always looking for efficiency,
using what we really need, not wasting.

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And this same would apply for all
that is electric energy, for the

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energy resource. In this case,
as well as we are taking care of

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the water, let' s say
optimizing its consumption, using it only when

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we need it. In the case
of energy, it applies the same thing

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also goes a little bit to the
same technology. How we can use bulbs,

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energy saving appliances, how we can
disconnect at a certain time also appliances

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that we are using, and this
same would apply to any natural resource.

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Always be very aware that somehow we
depend on these natural resources for our future,

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for the sustainability of the planet,
and that makes us very aware of

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their proper management. Small things that
we can do from home and that can

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help a lot, not only to
the energy issue, but to the environment

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as such, because saving water in
some way useful, minimizing consumption in the

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case of appliances, searching and having
low consumption appliances, replacing old appliances that

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can usually have very high consumptions by
others much more modern, disconnecting those appliances

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that we are not using. In
the case of buildings, make a proper

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maintenance of the inspection boxes so that
when rain events occur we cannot have in

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any way not have problems in all
our electrical infrastructure. Global warming is not

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a foreign issue to Colombian households,
and that must be taken into account.

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We thank you for accepting this invitation
from the RCN Radio Eco podcast, for

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telling us how much is being done
from it, considering that they are an

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important generator of energy in the national
territory and also highlighting that in your homes,

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our viewers can also do much to
save not only water and energy,

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but also to take care of the
environment and prevent global warming from continuing at

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such an accelerated pace. We hear
each other later Chacho Eco Podcast, because

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the environment is a theme of all