Environmental organizations demand this Government of Spain and the Autonomous Communities immediate actions to carry out implementation Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. That’s what they claim in the Conference of Presidents a has been approved roadmap to halt biodiversity loss and achieve COP16 targets.
Coinciding with today’s COP16 on Biodiversity in Cali, Colombia, environmental organizations are demanding greater commitment from the Spanish government and regional authorities to the implementation and compliance of the Kunming-Montreal World Biodiversity Framework.thus ensuring the effective involvement of all competent authorities.
The Directorate General for Biodiversity, Forests and Desertification of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge already approved in January 2023 State plan for natural heritage and biodiversityas one of the few signatory countries of the Convention on Biological Diversity that presented its national plan before it began COP16.
However, environmental organizations criticize that this plan has significant shortcomings, as it does not include measures to implement an important part of the legislation. 23 objectives included in the Global Biodiversity Frameworkor does so inadequately or incompletely. It lacks the necessary ambition and has several shortcomings that need to be corrected before it can become a truly effective instrument to address the emergency we are now experiencing as a result of the crisis. unprecedented biodiversity crisis in which we are immersed.
Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
As indicated by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Cali, It is essential that national biodiversity plans are drawn up and shared across governmentnot just by a Directorate General, since the Global biodiversity framework includes not only biodiversity commitments, but also sets goals in important issues such as agricultural activities, trade, pollution, climate change, urban areas, genetic resources, business monitoring, sustainable consumption, financial resources, access to technology or gender equality, among other issues. Without the involvement of the various ministries, and without them developing these obligations, it is impossible to achieve an adequate implementation of this global agreement.
Moreover, regional authorities did not participate in their preparation, despite having responsibility for managing many of these matters. All this means that there is no common and coordinated drive to achieve the goal of halting biodiversity loss by 2030 and living in harmony with nature by 2050, as set out in the Global Biodiversity Framework..
For this reason, environmental organizations demand this The Spanish Government and the regional governments, in response to the emergency caused by the loss of biodiversity, are urgently coordinating and adopting measures to implement the said global agreement.l.
In this sense, environmental organizations propose to the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, to Conference of Presidents, initially scheduled for December, the application of the Kunming-Montrea Global Biodiversity Frameworkl, so that a roadmap for the application of this global agreement in the Spanish state.
Furthermore, on Friday, October 25 at 6:30 PM at the doors of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challengeenvironmental organizations will carry out a demonstration to demand that the various governments take action now to halt the loss of biodiversity.