Biodiversity: No country is immune to devastation inflicted by climate change – UN Chief at COP16
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Remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the opening of the High-Level Segment of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) in Cali, Colombia.
“President Petro,
Thank you for hosting this important session, here in Cali – a microcosm of our planet’s rich biodiversity.
Excellencies, dear friends,
Nature is life.
And yet we are waging a war against it.
A war where there can be no winner.
Every year, we see temperatures climbing higher.
Every day, we lose more species.
Every minute, we dump a garbage truck of plastic waste into our oceans, rivers and lakes.
Make no mistake.
This is what an existential crisis looks like.
No country, rich or poor, is immune to the devastation inflicted by climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation and pollution.
These environmental crises are intertwined. They know no borders.
And they are devastating ecosystems and livelihoods, threatening human health and undermining sustainable development.
The drivers of this destruction are embedded in outdated economic models, fueling unsustainable production and consumption patterns.
They are multiplied by inequalities – in wealth and power.
And with each passing day, we are edging closer to tipping points that could fuel further hunger, displacement, and armed conflicts.
We have already altered 75% of the Earth’s land surface and 66% of its ocean environments.
Dear friends,
Biodiversity is humanity’s ally.
We must move from plundering it to preserving it.
As I have said time and again, making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century.
That is the spirit of today’s Declaration of the World Coalition for Peace with Nature:
A call for action to enhance national and international efforts towards a balanced and harmonious relationship with nature – protecting nature and conserving, restoring and sustainably using and sharing our global biodiversity.
A call to recognize the vital knowledge, innovations and practices of Indigenous people, people of African descent, farmers and local communities.
A call for life.
Excellencies,
Last month, UN Member States adopted the Pact for the Future.
The Pact recognizes the need to accelerate efforts to restore, protect, conserve and sustainably use the environment.
It emphasizes the importance of halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030, and other terrestrial and marine ecosystems that act as sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases.
This means conserving biodiversity, while ensuring social and environmental safeguards – in line with the Paris Climate Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
When the Framework was adopted two years ago in Montreal, the world made bold commitments to living in harmony with nature by mid-century.
Its goals and targets require robust monitoring, reporting, and review arrangements to track progress, as well as a resource mobilisation package to increase finance for biodiversity from all sources – mobilizing at least USD 200 billion per year by 2030.
But we must now turn these promises into action in four vital ways.
First – at the national level, all countries must finally present clear, ambitious and detailed plans to align with the Framework’s targets.
These national plans should be developed in coordination with Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans – with positive outcomes in the Sustainable Development Goals.
We must shift to nature-positive business models and production: renewable energies and sustainable supply chains… zero-waste policies and circular economies… regenerative agriculture and sustainable farming practices…
These must become the default for governments and businesses alike.
Second – we must agree on a strengthened monitoring and transparency framework.
This is not only vital for accountability but also about enabling course corrections and driving ambition.
Third – finance promises must be kept and support to developing countries accelerated.
We cannot afford to leave Cali without new pledges to adequately capitalize the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund, and without commitments to mobilize other sources of public and private finance to deliver the Framework – in full.
And we must bring the private sector on board.
Those profiting from nature cannot treat it like a free, infinite resource.
They must step up and contribute to its protection and restoration.
By operationalizing the mechanism on the sharing of benefits from the use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, we will give them one clear avenue to do so, bringing more equity and inclusivity…”
Full remarks: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2024-10-29/secretary-generals-remarks-the-high-level-segment-of-cop16-biodiversity-trilingual-delivered-scroll-down-for-all-english
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Gratitude for this video. Upcoming NDCs should be carbon neutral, but nature positive for our common happy future👏🎉
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Biodiversity is NOT primarily affected by climate change.
this is a distraction from the real issues of pollution and encroachment
It is not climate change…IT IS WE SHOULD MANAGE OUR ENVIRONMENT BETTER…ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ‼️….with better solutions and prevention of destruction and disasters…methods which are basic environmental management worldwide…we need a huge world climate management summit to agree on industry and emissions release regulations worldwide and environmental management standards to be implemented …..countries will have to pay environmental financially penalties to a world fund to use for emergency in disaster management and recovery worldwide should these standards not adhered .
90% of the world is polluting in their or other countries like ot doesn't affect them 🤣🤣
👋 Sixteenth Meeting Of The Conference Of The Parties To The Convention On Biological Diversity (Cop16)In Cali,Columbia.
Ok absolutely true.
The point of writing is to share wisdom and knowledge. With care for humanity, we know the Bible. The point of the Internet is to do the same on the scale of the planet. The point of collecting assets is none. We are still trying our best to prove the benefits of crossing the Rubicon. Take a look at the pyramid in Egypt. The praise of hierarchy. You instantly spot the sweet point of being at the top and collecting personal gains. Egyptian pharaohs have believed that their assets will serve them even in the underworld. In the end, it does not even matter, by the way.
John Davison Rockefeller, famous for his supremacy in winning monopoly games, once said: “It was worthless.” Punch line. Knock out.
Try your best to find the best point in the sphere. How to play hierarchy and monopoly with no personal benefit gained. How to do so? Being above, under, near, or behind? So there is no single benefit to being casted out of the sphere. No gains, no games. You are not better than the best angel in heaven. He was casted out of paradise for playing hierarchy games with God.
We are building our civilization based on case studies. We are doing a great job by avoiding old mistakes.
By evolving, we're still trying to outsmart the sphere. Monarchy, anarchy, totalitarianism, dictatorship, democracy, etc. But the result is the same — society fails. We were trying for royal bloodlines and gender equality, but still nothing.
Society fails again and again, no matter the ruling form or the ruler's name.
The history of the mankind proves the simplest concept: Do not lose your time hopelessly trying to outsmart the social sphere.
sweet-blood greetings to United Nothing and Antonio
The most telling upon life and the most dangerous and hilarious war among the wars that have been so far fought through out the history or even before the history is the war of climate. Loss sought in the this perennial World war expands over and for everlasting times. We must strengthen biodiversity, must guard our boundaries and control our desires of individual life, in order to decrease the loss, gradually recommending and commrnding the circumstances in a better way.
Unless with all of us every individual does not take part in this battle as a participant, the enemy-death is like the father of arch Angel who'll digest all the life world over, it happens like lasting conflagration.
I know that will never happen because of the mother nature and mother earth love, but we must substantiate and regulate our life management in order to keep in balance equation and save many non-biodegradable traditions and cultures of different species from extinsion that are so useful for the beauty and utility of the world.
War against Nature, is akin to wars against Peoples, isn't it?
So, please UN, do ONE thing at a time to remain representative of Humanity.
Suspend Genocidal states & those complicit in Genocide before embarking on the preservation of Marine, Coastal, Arboreal & other Landbased ecosystems.
'Cause no-one's listening no more, we are overwhelmed with guilt or anger.