The Spanish NGO Ecologists in action in coordination with a worldwide network of organizations will mark presence again in the COP16 that will resume in Rome tomorrow. This is the continuation of those who happened in the Colombian city of Cali last year.
Remember that COP16 ended after a last session of 2 November that was more than 26 hours And that it unfortunately culminated, due to a lack of quorum and without completing the minimum similarities that were expected of this very important top.
He The objective of the top that will continue tomorrow is the new Biodiversity Fund It is not coordinated by the World Environment Fund, because the United States participates, one of the two countries that have not ratified the World Biodiversity Agreement, nor is this expected, now that the Trump denial.
Tomorrow Tuesday the second part of the COP16 o World top of the United Nations about biodiversity. The tops are held every two years, but in the appointment of Cali last October the agenda of themes planned despite the extension of the negotiations during the morning of the day after the planned date of completion could not be completed. Up to seven official negotiating documents were left without the approval of the parties.
Three fundamental issues to debate in the second part of the COP16
Under the topics in debate for the second part of the COP16 Three fall on. On the one hand the implementation of the World Biodiversity Frame (MMB) from Kunming-MontrealThe worldwide strategy to stop the loss of species and ecosystems. It must be demanded to set up the progress reporting system of each country in the direction of the Milestone of 2030 as an important date to prevent the relegation of nature from not receiving the backlocking points that threaten life on the planet.
In that sense, the NGO shows its concern about the lack of concretion of indicators that allow it Evaluate whether the purpose of restoring broken ecosystems has been achieved Or maintenance of ecosystems. Without scientifically robust indicators, some could be presented as successful actions that would actually be “green washing” strategies of irresponsible companies or governments.
Also the System and Progress Assessment System and MMB objectivesare foreseen as purely orientively and voluntary. The organization is of the opinion that it will be very difficult without binding and mandatory legal instruments, if not impossible to stop the ecological crisis of the world.
On the other hand, the agreement about Coordination with other agreements and organizations of the Environmental Mount It also presents worrying elements in the opinion of the organization. Some parties, especially those countries with more liberal and right -wing governments, blocked the call16 of Cali the call for all the environmental agreements of the United Nations (and especially those of climate change and biodiversity) with a plan of joint action.
Third, the Great financing block can be the Achilleshiel of this COP16. The Cali meeting was concluded with a precarious agreement to create a new and specific financial instrument for the biological diversity agreement, as requested by many global southern countries (so far, environmental funds were used, not designed for biodiversity in its origin), From now on this will be necessary to operationalize this new instrument and to offer them economically.
Missing coordination and agreements on money
The dedication of Gradually identify and eliminate public stimuli that finance destructive activities of nature. However, the differences in the document called Financial Mechanism continue to exist, which are washed with square hooks, which indicates discrepancies.
Fundamentally there is one petition from southern countries of more transparency, democracy and efficiency So that the current dedicated funds to support the implementation of the World Framework, given that there have been major problems in the most needy countries to gain access to these resources. And of course to mobilize a larger volume for development that protects biodiversity.