France Nature Environnement regrets “the big failure” of the negotiations on “the question of financing”

The COP16 biodiversity ended on Saturday in Cali, failing to reach an agreement on financing the roadmap that humanity has set to stop the destruction of nature by 2030.

“We still have elements that have been put in place” notably “with regard to indigenous peoples and local communities, but with regard to the question of financing in general, we have not really made progress, and that is the big failure for the Colombian presidency”regretted Saturday November 2 on franceinfo Arnaud Schwartz, the vice-president of France Nature Environnement.

The COP16 biodiversity ended on Saturday in Cali, Colombia without reaching an agreement on the financing of the roadmap that humanity has set to stop the destruction of nature by 2030. Participants “have created a fund but the mechanism which is supposed to feed it, they have not managed to agree on”explained Arnaud Schwartz.

Brazil supported the Colombian proposal to create a new nature fund, while the European Union, Japan and Canada remained firmly opposed. However, “it is not because this agreement, this year, at this COP16 in Cali is largely a failure that we cannot act at the local level and at the national level as well as at the European level”supported the vice-president of France Nature Environnement.

“We need to continue the work of raising awareness, there is work to be done to educate young people, but also older people”continued Arnaud Schwartz, for whom major international meetings remain essential. “We still need to meet, talk to each other, try to find compromises and move forward even if we move very slowly and not necessarily at the right level in terms of ambitions”he concluded.