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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Patrick Greenfield

Colombia gives assurances over UN biodiversity summit after rebels’ threat

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The last UN biodiversity summit took place in Montreal, Canada, in 2022. Photograph: Andrej Ivanov/AFP/Getty Images

Colombian authorities have insisted it will be safe to attend a UN biodiversity summit in Cali later this year, after a dissident rebel group threatened to disrupt the event.

This week Central General Staff (EMC), a guerrilla faction that rejected the country’s 2016 peace agreement, said the UN nature summit Cop16 would “fail”, in a post on X addressed to the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.

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