COP16 Delivers Economic Wins: Petro Celebrates Successes in Cali

“Here we held an event (…) with a completely different message and that’s how I think the world understands it, and that’s not just the officials who have the power to make decisions, but the people world ,” he insisted, “because the “The State is increasingly showing its shortcomings in the fight against the climate crisis.”

Regarding the agreements made by the parties at the summit, Petro pointed out that after eight years of negotiations, “the global agreement to identify and protect marine areas of high ecological importance in international waters was approved” and he approved the Peace with Nature Coalition introduced for Colombia.

“The balance in terms of security is good, there was no incident to regret in Cali (…) literally bringing the world to a city, in this case Cali (…) without fear,” he said referring to the security in the south-west of Colombia, where the increase in violence at the hands of the armed groups had raised alarms.

the president noted that he hopes the upcoming COP29 summits in Azerbaijan and COP30 in Brazil will achieve “a truly binding and powerful conclusion,” with the “priority” issue of funding as the most urgent to address them.

COP16 started on October 21 and continued until November 2 in the city of Cali, managing to agree on some of the issues on the table, such as paying for the use of genetic resources and recognizing indigenous people, while the funding, the most difficult to discuss , pending.