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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Patrick Greenfield

Colombia vows to put nature at the heart of global environmental negotiations

Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister.
Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, is expected to be the president of Cop16. Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

The next round of global biodiversity negotiations will put nature at the heart of the international environment agenda, Colombia’s environment minister has said, as the country prepares for the Cop16 summit.

Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, who is expected to be the Cop16 president, said the South American country would use the summit to ensure nature was a key part of the global environmental agenda in the year building up to the climate Cop30 in the Brazilian Amazon in 2025, where countries will present new plans on how they will meet the Paris agreement.

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