The delegates from all over the world rejoiced a final deal for the financing map for the protection of nature, and the fracture of the stalemate in the United Nations talks, which is seen as a test of international cooperation in Geopolitical.
Rich and developing countries on Thursday got rid of a compromise on collecting and providing billions of dollars The necessary to protect the speciesOvercoming the Stark sections that mocked the previous Cop16 A meeting in Cali, Colombia last year.
Scientists have long warned that the procedure is urgent. The amount of one million species of the world is threatened with extinction, while agriculture and unsustainable consumption destroys the forests, the soil is exhausted and the spread of plastic pollution even Most of the remote areas of the planet.
The delegates stood and applauded at the emotionally charged final meeting, which witnessed the main decisions that were adopted in the last minutes of the last day of the negotiations that were re -operated at the headquarters of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.
“Delaying you all. I have done a great job. Cop16 Susanna Mohamed President of Colombia.
After that on the Internet after that, I described it as a “historic day”, adding: “We have achieved the adoption of the first global plan to finance life on the ground.”
The decision comes more than two years after a prominent agreement to slow down the outbreak of nature in this contract and protect at least 30 % of the land and seas in the world. This would protect ecosystems and wildlife on which humans depend on food, Climate And economic prosperity.
On Thursday, the COP16 Agreement is seen as decisive to give a driving force to that deal. The talks were also considered an international cooperation bell in general.
The meeting comes at a time when countries face a set of challenges, from commercial conflicts and debt concerns to reducing foreign aid – especially by the Trump administration.
Washington, who has not registered the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity, has not sent representatives to the meeting.
“Our efforts show that pluralism can provide hope at the time of geopolitical uncertainty,” said Stephen Gilpiolet, Minister of Environment and Climate Change in Canada.
The failure to finish the touches on an agreement in Kali was the first in a series of disappointing results in environmental summits last year.
Climate financing deal in COP29 in Azerbaijan In November, developing countries criticized insufficient, while separate negotiations on desertification and plastic pollution stopped in December.
Muhammad, who resigned from the Minister of Environment in Colombia, said, but remained at work even after the Rome conference, that her team members had been recruited with the last minute approval.
On Thursday, there were extensive closed talks on the basis of a “compromise” text presented by Brazil on behalf of the rural Brexes, which includes Russia, China and India.
Brazilian negotiator Maria Angelika Ikida told AFP that the financing was a flash point long before the current international tensions, adding that the Brex’s proposal sought to be “very sensitive” to a wide range of opinions.
Countries have already agreed to provide 200 billion dollars annually for nature by 2030, including $ 30 billion annually from the wealthiest countries to the poor.
The total of 2022 was about $ 15 billion, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Thursday’s decision specifies two main threads in the coming years – finding billions of dollars in financing biological diversity and taking a decision on institutions that will provide funds.
Georgina Chandler, head of politics and campaigns at the London Zoology Association, said the financial road map was a “major landmark”, but he stressed that the money is required urgently.
She said: “With only five years remaining to stop and lose biological diversity, securing the funds needed to complete this task is more necessary than ever.”
Other decisions were requested to support monitoring to ensure that the countries hold accountable for their progress towards achieving the goals of biological diversity.
