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President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announces the city of Cali as the host for the United Nations Biodiversity COP16.. The UNCBD COP16 was originally set to be held in Turkey; [5] however, on July 31, 2023, the conference's organizing committee notified Parties that the country had decided to give up its right to host and preside the event, due to "a force majeure situation" caused by the ...
The two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP16, is a follow-up to the 2022 Montreal meetings where 196 countries signed a historic global treaty to protect biodiversity. The accord includes 23 measures to halt and reverse nature loss, including putting 30% of the planet and 30% of degraded ecosystems under protection by 2030.
The South American nation later this month will host the U.N. COP16 biodiversity summit aimed at halting the rapid destruction of nature, with Muhamad serving as the conference's president.
Muhamad served as the president of the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in Cali, lasting from October 21 to November 1. [26] On the inaugural day of the meeting, Muhamad presented Colombia's own National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan, called Plan de Acción por la Biodiversidad 2030 ("Plan of Action for Biodiversity ...
The conference gave a mid-term evaluation to the UN Decade on Biodiversity (2011–2020) initiative, which aims to promote the conservation and sustainable use of nature. The meeting achieved a total of 35 decisions, [ 72 ] including a decision on "Mainstreaming gender considerations", to incorporate gender perspective to the analysis of ...
A brief standoff with Colombia holds important lessons for how future trade conflicts might unfold in the ... Colombia's President Gustavo Petro at a United Nations' biodiversity conference in 2024.
Deforestation in Colombia in 2024 is expected to have reached a higher level than during the previous year but is still forecast to be among the lowest levels in more than two decades, Environment ...
As COP16's host country, Colombia has encouraged participation by the nation’s Indigenous groups and Afro-descendants, whom the government considers key to its goal of reversing the loss of biodiversity. Nearly 2,000 Indigenous people from southwestern Colombia arrived in Cali on Monday to raise their voices in favor of pro-environmental causes.