At the International Women and Biodiversity Forum, the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhamad and the Vice President Francia Márquez received the Inírida Declaration, a manifesto that seeks to influence decision-making processes and proposes a global vision of women caregivers of biodiversity. This document will be presented by the Minister in the Blue Zone of COP16, so that everyone can hear her commitments and proposals.
“I assume the responsibility of bringing these inputs so that they are truly heard and that goal 23 of the Kunming Montreal Framework is not simply an inclusion at the end, a rhetoric because now it is politically necessary to be correct and have to include women, because if not, We are not in a policy of inclusion. Inclusion is not just the word, inclusion is the power of decision,” said the Minister of the Environment, Susana Muhamad.
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This document is the product of working groups, made up of women from all over the territory, who committed to leading solutions in the different regions to the challenges facing the planet regarding the loss of biodiversity. Likewise, they request that their ideas be heard and valued, so that decision makers recognize that women are a fundamental part of socio-environmental solutions.
“This Inírida declaration is a call to collective action that recognizes the fundamental role of women in the governance of biodiversity and water. It seems to us that it is essential that this is the beginning of a public conversation that must continue and even more so with Minister Susana Muhamad as president of a COP. This is a very important document of collective construction for the world,” commented María Virginia Blanco, women’s representative.
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