The South American country Colombia’s environment minister, Susana Muhammad said that she would use the Brazil's Cop 16 summit to ensure nature was a key part of the global environmental agenda. Speaking of nature and climate, it remains not hard to associate the specific climatic shade with her political character. The year is building up to the climate Cop 30 in the Brazilian Amazon in the year 2025.
Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has named Cali as the host city for Cop16 in October. It will be the first bio-diversity summit since a historic UN deal was made to halt the rampant loss of bio-diversity, in Montreal, Canada at the end of year 2022.
The countries will present new plans on how they will meet the Paris agreement. Although the climate affects the bio-diversity, nature is an answer to the climate crisis. It is not the only answer, but it is a very important pillar and we want to position it very strongly to build towards Cop 30 in Brazil,” she emphasized.
“We need to create the momentum and the role of Cop16 is to make nature a pillar of those discussions,” she said, adding that sometimes we divide the international environmental agenda into many issues but we need to concentrate. For example, saving the Amazon is a practical and tangible action. The creation of multi-national marine protected areas is a tangible action that has resulted for the climate and biodiversity.