The assembly of the countries in Rome this week agreed to generate $ 200 billion in finances annually by 2030 to stop and start to reverse the destruction of the world of nature.
COP16 talks of the United Nations about the biodiversity began in October in Columbia, but at that time it was not possible to reach an agreement on key elements, including who would contribute how the money will be collected and who supervises it.
US President Donald Trump reduces the involvement of the world's largest economy in financial finance, so the contract late on Thursday evening was a welcome strengthening of global transaction creation.
Directed by negotiators from so-called BRICS-Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa countries, delegates agreed to find at least $ 200 billion in US dollars a year from a number of sources to protect nature.
Susana Muhamad, the president of COP16 and the Minister of the Environment in Colombia, heralded the contract as a triumph for nature and multilateralism in the year, when the political landscape is increasingly crushed and diplomatic friction is growing.
“From all to Rome, we sent the light of hope that the common good, environment and protection of life as well as the ability to meet with something greater than the national interest is possible,” said Muhamad.
The contract is also a win for Canadian diplomatic efforts. The financial agreement is the result of a breakthrough agreement in Montreal in 2022, when the countries agreed to protect 30 percent of lands and oceans.
Canadian negotiators, under the leadership of the Federal Minister Steven Guilbeault, concluded this agreement through complex and abundant negotiations with the participation of 196 countries.
Since then, the Canadian government has pushed funds for efforts to protect at home, including announcement On Thursday, $ 200 million for the protection of the Ewwotywy in the Arctic.
Delegates also agreed to examine whether a new fund for biological diversity should be created, in accordance with the request of some developing countries, or whether an existing fund would be enough, such as the one run by the global object of the environment. GEF has delivered over $ 23 billion to thousands of natural projects in the last 30 years.
“Everyone with a spirit of compromise made the findings, and in general for the developing countries the result was very much
Positive, “Maria Angélica Ikeda, director of the Environment Department at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Reuters as plenary ended on Thursday evening.
“I leave the happy and optimistic meeting.”
The need has only increased in recent years, with a medium -sized wild fauna population 2024 Living Planet report can be seen.
The spectrum of cuts of help was also felt in the negotiating rooms, fueling frustration among some countries, from Brazil to Egypt and Panama that rich nations do not fulfill their duties in terms of providing money.
The head of the Zoological Society of London's Policy, Georgina Chandler, called for governments to fulfill their involvement in $ 30 billion a year until 2030 in order to stop and reverse the loss of biological diversity.
The agreement in Rome helps to establish the steps needed to implement a groundbreaking global frame of biological diversity of Kunming-Montreal (GBF), which were agreed in 2022 and committed countries for a number of environmental goals.
The countries also agreed to a set of technical principles of monitoring progress towards GBF and provided the countries of the countries to publish a national report on their plans of biological diversity at the next Nature conference, COP17, which will take place in Armenia in 2026.
Talks appear at the beginning of the hard -working year for international climate diplomacy, when countries meet at various events to discuss the pollution of plastics, keeping oceans and achieving global development goals, before COP30 climate talks in November.