Susana Muhamad

María Susana Muhamad González (born April 21, 1977) is a Colombian political scientist, environmentalist and politician belonging to the Humane Colombia party.

[3] Her work focuses on developing actions that allow Colombia to consolidate as a world power of life, through compliance with international agreements on climate change and loss of biodiversity, the protection of environmental defenders, and the fight against deforestation in the Amazon region.

[9] Her studies seek to understand the relationship between development and environmental sustainability, exploring the tensions that have arisen in Western civilization over the last two centuries from various philosophical perspectives and viewpoints of different actors.

[10] The administration aimed to develop a regulation framework through social and political legitimacy-building processes, involving various stakeholders such as academia, council members, interinstitutional representatives, and the PEV industry.

[10] This endeavor seeks to establish guidelines for environmentally sustainable PEV practices, addressing regulatory ambiguity and promoting responsible behavior among both private and public actors in Bogotá.

[10] In the book El agua en la ciudad y los asentamientos urbanos, in the context of water management, she suggests rethinking the water-city relationship in Bogotá to address vulnerabilities caused by development.

[citation needed] In 2021, Muhamad was elected as vice president of the national coordination board of the Colombia Humana party, after this political movement officially received its legal status.

[18] In June 2023, she made an appearance with Frankie, the activist dinosaur icon from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), delivering an urgent message to the House of Representatives to address the climate crisis and avoid extinction.

[22] While experts stated the potential danger of the hippopotamuses for the local ecosystem and agreed with the need to control the population, the plans were criticized for relying too much on the less effective sterilization methods.

The risk of legal challenges being brought against culling due to public outcry was also mentioned, as were the logistical costs of exporting the hippopotamuses to other countries, which Muhamad said would be covered by the institutions that will receive the animals.

Susana Muhamad (third from left) and members of the Colombian delegation pose for a photo at the opening ceremony of the COP16.
Susana Muhamad (third from left) and members of the Colombian delegation pose for a photo at the opening ceremony of the COP16.