The United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP16) that was held in Cali (Colombia), from October 21 to November 1, has ended without the representatives of the around 200 participating countries having been able to reach an agreement on the financial issues in order to protect biodiversity until 2030.
“The objective of stop and even reverse the destruction of nature by 2030 it remains a distant perspective after this conference,” lamented WWF Germany international politics expert Florian Titze.
Environmental protection organizations had asked the countries attending COP16 that they reached a compromise when the negotiations came to an end this Friday, when the end of the summit was scheduled, which finally It was extended until November 2.
The conference focused on the technical implementation of the global agreement for biodiversity conservation, adopted at the last meeting in Montreal two years ago, as well as on financing issues. The main point of contention was how to distribute financial support to countries in the Global South.
“It’s unfortunate that the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity has ended without adopting a strategy to raise more funds for nature conservation,” lamented the State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany, Jochen Flasbarth.
“The result of COP16 represents a mix of things”added the senior vice president of the World Wildlife Fund in the United States, Ginette Hemley.
“We saw a real progress on important issues such as benefit sharing related to digital sequence information, health and biodiversity, integrating biodiversity into infrastructure and other sectors, and enabling greater participation of indigenous peoples and local communities, has detailed . But a lack of progress on funding will slow efforts to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.”
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