140 ministers and a dozen heads of state are expected to participate in the second week of the conference.
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00:00HOP16 Biodiversity is entering its final week in Cali, Colombia.
00:07Representatives of indigenous communities from all over America are taking part to call
00:12on countries to honor the commitments they made two years ago.
00:16Our governments don't make quick decisions, they take time to implement them.
00:21They are dedicating themselves to implementing laws, normalizing them, but they are not doing
00:26a job to invest in those activities to recover and conserve biodiversity.
00:34International negotiations are underway to clarify the implementation of the Global Biodiversity
00:40Framework adopted by nearly 200 countries at the end of 2022.
00:46It includes 23 targets.
00:49So far we have 17% globally in terrestrial and only 8% in marine and coastal.
00:57So there is a strong call to action in the national action plans or in the updated targets
01:06from the different countries to enhance the protection.
01:10But that target cannot go alone without the other target, that is the target number two,
01:19is to promote the restoration.
01:23The European Union claims to be entering the final discussions as a leader in the fight
01:29for biodiversity.
01:30We had Natura 2000 as a vast network of connected protected sites.
01:38So because of that, in the nature restoration law, we are quite confident that the 2030
01:45goal for the land, we will relatively soon reach.
01:50For the water, it's a bit more complicated, but also on this we are working a lot.
01:55We will come forward with a water resilience strategy.
01:59According to the UN, green investments need to be tripled to achieve the 2030 targets.
02:15to achieve the 2030 targets.