Colombia is located at the NW corner of South America, in the middle of the planet, on the Equator. Colombia shares the borders with 5 nations: Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Panama. With some 44 million people, Colombia is the third most populous country in America, after Brazil and Mexico. Over 75% is urban population, 70% in ten major cities. Its average population density is about 41m/km², but is distributed over the country irregularly. Colombia, being a tropical country located in the area of Ecuador has a large representation of taxonomic groups in fauna and flora typical of the area to which varieties are joined from wildlife migrations from different parts of the planet by the variety of ecosystems.

For the construction of the RCE we matched with the Network for Environmental Education who has been working since 2003, coordinated by the Institute for Environmental Studies-ideas of the National University of Colombia. This network is part of the Colombian Environmental Training Network, which in turn belongs to the Environmental Training Network in Latin American and Caribbean.

The main objective of the Thematic Network of Environmental Education - RCE Bogota, has been promoting the public environmental education from non-formal education, understood as education for sustainability. It has been an innovative experience and a challenge, that seeks to educate the citizens of Bogota, in the environmental issues, towards achieving harmonious interactions between society and nature, in its personal life and collective, in practices such as healthy eating, recycling, responsible consumption, citizen participation, sense of belonging, and identity with the city and its public spaces, among others.