Colombia: Govt. Presents plan of action to soar biodiversity protection

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The government of Colombia presents a plan of action to increase biodiversity protection to 34 percent by 2030, on the first day of sessions of the United Nations cop 16 conference on biodiversity.

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00:00The Government of Colombia presents a plan of action to increase biodiversity protection to 34% by 2030

00:07on the first day of sessions of the United Nations COP16 Conference on Biodiversity.

00:12The plan represents a commitment to peace and nature

00:15through the acceleration of territorial planning as a participatory process.

00:19Likewise, the proposal includes promoting this socio-ecological transition portfolio

00:26to implement strategic projects in seven sectors

00:29that integrate criteria for the conservation, restoration and recovery of ecosystems.

00:34The Colombian Minister of Environment, Susana Muhammad,

00:38assured that a strategy will be established to mobilize resources from all sources

00:43to fulfill the ambitions set out in the Biodiversity Action Plan,

00:47as well as holding talks with the communities.

00:51As COP16 hosts, we take the lead.

00:54For example, we are one of the countries that presents the complete plan

00:58after two years of the Conming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework,

01:02and what we have done reflects how we are going to meet the goals of the Global Framework.

01:06The plan seeks to bring together four strategic commitments to 2030 for the protection of biodiversity

01:11and six goals that include within them 23 goals of the framework

01:14in accordance with our specific contextual situation.

01:17These goals have to do first with going from 24% of the national territory

01:21that today is under environmental protection measures both in the continental part to 34%,

01:26and in the oceanic part we have further reached 30%, but we are going to gain 34%.

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