COP16 host Colombia pushes for unified U.N. climate and nature pledges

5/10/2024 7:33

        Colombia wants to write a unified climate and biodiversity pledge, seeking to combineefforts to protect nature with those to tackle climate change in
        United Nations talks, Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told Reuters on Friday.
        
        The South American nation later this month will host the U.N. COP16 biodiversity summit aimed at halting the rapid destruction of nature, with Muhamad serving as the conference's president.
        
        The United Nations currently has three environmental conventions - one each on climate change, biodiversity, and desertification - with negotiations and pledges being done separately on each issue.
        
        That is a demanding process for developing countries that do not have a lot of resources, which could more easily be put toward developing one unified plan, sshe said.