At COP16, UN chief seeks ‘significant investment’ to protect Earth’s biodiversity as only RM1b collected so far

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Biodiversity Conservation,António Guterres,Global Biodiversity Framework Fund

CALI (Colombia), Oct 21 — UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday urged “significant investment” in a fund created to safeguard Earth’s biodiversity as he addressed delegates...

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“We must leave Cali with significant investment in the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund , and commitments to mobilise other sources of public and private finance,” the secretary general said. Guterres highlighted that destroying nature increases conflict, hunger and disease, fuels poverty and slashes GDP.

But Colombia’s EMC rebel group, a splinter of the FARC guerrilla army that disbanded in 2017, has cast a shadow over the event by urging foreign delegations to stay away and warning the conference “will fail.” Cali’s mayor Alejandro Eder insisted, however, that “we have been working since February to safeguard the city of Cali... We have more than 10,000 police officers, we also have detachments of the Colombian Armed Forces guarding the entire perimeter of the city. We have air protection, protection against drones.”The delegates have their work cut out for them, with just five years left to achieve the target of placing 30 per cent of land and sea areas under protection by 2030.

 

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