2024-09-13 02:49:27
With less than 40 days to go until the kick-off of the most important World Cup to protect biodiversity, the COP16 Conference of the Parties, Colombia reveals the key issues that will be included in its Biodiversity Action Plan for 2030, which will be presented on October 21 when each country takes stock of these instruments.
Several countries have already submitted their action plans to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and Colombia will join them with specific national goals and actions that will stop the loss of biodiversity and promote and make sustainable use of nature in order to meet the 23 goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework by 2030.
In this regard, the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhamad, revealed that, based on collective work with different actors in the country, three strategic goals have been proposed, among others, for the Colombian Biodiversity Action Plan for 2030, aligned with national commitments and the Kunming Montreal Global Framework.
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“Colombia will invest five million hectares in ecological restoration and productive reconversion to sustainable and regenerative production systems that will contribute to the recovery of the local economy, but at the same time to the recovery of those critical environmental functions for the sustainability of the territories and the revitalization of territorial economies,” explained the Minister.
Muhamad also mentioned that “we will have 34% of the national territory under conservation strategies. These can be protected areas, recognition of the contribution of indigenous and ethnic peoples to conservation, but they can also be under biodiversity conservation figures both on land and in coastal areas and internal and continental aquatic ecosystems.”
As a third measure, Muhamad highlighted that the country will go from contributing 0.8% to 3% of the national GDP with biodiversity economy models, which will generate more than 500,000 jobs associated with the care of biodiversity and will guarantee sustainable productive alternatives based on knowledge and technological innovation to generate added value.
In accordance with the defined national goals and actions, an attempt will be made to establish agreements and formal and binding mechanisms between the different public, private and community actors that have participated in the process.
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