Bogota, Colombia – The annual United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity, which was ran out last year on Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.
That is, how to spend what has been pledged so far – and how a lot to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth.
Conversations in Colombia known as COP16 return Some important results Before their separation in November, including an agreement that requires companies that benefit from genetic resources in nature – by developing medicines from rainforest factories – to exchange benefits. Steps to give indigenous peoples and local communities took a stronger voice in memorization matters.
But it turned out that two weeks were not enough to accomplish everything.
Kali’s talks followed the historic COP15 agreement 2022 in Montreal, which It included 23 standards It aims to protect biological diversity. This included the status of 30 % of the planet and 30 % of the deteriorating ecosystems under protection by 2030, known as the global biological diversity framework.
“Montreal was about” what ” – what do we all do together?” Georgina Chandler, President of Politics and Campaign, told the Zoology Association in London. “Kali was supposed to focus on” how ” – setting the plans and financing in force to ensure that we were already able to implement this framework.”
“Now we have to end the last of these recent decisions, which are some in Rome for two days of talks,” said Linda Kruger of the nature of nature, which is in Rome, and now we have to finish these recent decisions, which are some of them Rome for two days of accurate decisions on financing, about filling resources and planning, monitoring and reporting requirements under the framework of global biological diversity. “
The total financial goal was to achieve 20 billion dollars annually in the fund by 2025, then 30 billion dollars by 2030. So far, only $ 383 million has been pledged from November, from 12 countries or sub -country: Austria, Canada, Denmark France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Quebec Province, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Participants will discuss the creation of a “global financing tool for biological diversity” aimed at distributing the effective money collected. It will be a large part of the conversations about collecting more money.
Chandler and Aroger said that the funding points in Colombia’s conversations were particularly controversial.
“It is really related to how to collect money and how we make it fairly distributed, and take it to the ground where it is needed, so that this is the truly basic issue,” said Kruger.
Oscar Syria, CEO of the Joint Initiative, was a research reservoir specializing in global economic and environmental policy, pessimistic about raising more money.
Syria said: “We are outside the right track in terms of achieving these funds,” said Syria. He said that the main sources of financing biodiversity are shrinking or disappearing.
“Telenovela columpia was not supposed to be well in which people will attend the right resources already, and the happy end to bring their money, can actually end to be a tragic Italian opera, as no one agrees to anything and loses everyone, Syria said.
Susanna Mohamed, former Minister of Environment at Colombia and COP16 president, said she hopes a “good message from Rome”.
“This message is that even with a very fragmented geopolitical scene, with a growing world in the conflict, we can still get an agreement on some basic issues. To protect life in the crisis of climate change and biological diversity,” Mohamed said in a statement.
The population of global wildlife has decreased on average by 73 % in 50 years, according to a report issued by the Global Wildlife Fund and the Zoology Association in London.
“The biological diversity is essentially necessary for our livelihoods and welfare,” said Chandler. “It is necessary for the air we breathe, the water we drink, the precipitation on which food systems depend on, and our protection from increasing temperatures and increasing storms as well.”
Chandler said that the removal of forests in the Amazon has far -reaching effects throughout South America, as in the Congo Basin and other major biological diversity areas all over the world.
“We know that it has an effect on rainfall, on diets, on the safety of soil in other countries. So it is not just a small and isolated thing. It is a widespread problem.”
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