Today, from Norway at the Oslo Tropical Forest Forum, the Minister of Environment, Susana Muhamad, announced Colombia’s four main objectives at the COP16 to be held in Cali in late October and early November.
COP16 is the world’s most important biannual biodiversity conference, which will bring together 170 countries to negotiate their commitments to the future of the environment.
The objectives:
- The launch of the Peace with Nature Coalition, which is an initiative that seeks to boost the regeneration of life and reverse the climate crisis.
- Unify the climate and biodiversity agendas into one, meaning that both conventions converge to address climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
- Create a benefit-sharing system for genetic resources. This is a discussion that countries rich in biodiversity are having so that they can receive benefits for their contributions of genetic chains of organisms used by different industrial sectors.
- Reach agreements on funding to protect biodiversity by 2030. This in order to achieve the 23 targets set out in the Kunming-Montreal Global Framework agreed at COP15.
At the moment, the minister is on a tour in which she has participated in several ministerial dialogues in which she invited Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, France and Japan to join the Peace with Nature Coalition.
To know more about the organization of COP16 […] you can read this story and to know who are the responsible and powerful of its organization you can read this one. (in spanish only)
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