The opening ceremony of the sixteenth edition of the conference was held on Sunday United Nations The biodiversity of Cali is under strict protection.
“We must leave Cali with significant investments in the Global Biodiversity Framework funds, and with commitments to mobilize other sources of public and private financing to fully implement it,” Guterres said in a video message on the eve of the opening of the negotiations, which will last until November 1.
Guterres reminded that “destruction nature It fuels conflict, hunger and disease, and fuels poverty, inequalities and crisis climatic“It harms sustainable development, green jobs, cultural heritage, and gross domestic product.”
He stressed that “it is about fulfilling the promises made regarding financing and accelerating support to developing countries” because “the collapse of the services provided by nature, such as pollination and drinking water, will lead to an annual loss.” for the global economy “It is estimated at trillions of dollars, with the poorest countries being the most affected.”
The sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) constitutes the first meeting of the international community since it adopted, during the previous edition of the conference in 2022, an unprecedented road map for nature conservation. However, implementation of this agreement, known as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, with ambitious targets by 2030, is not progressing quickly enough.
