Venezuela participates in the COP-16 conference in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia

Published at: 06/12/2024 10:45 PM

Venezuela is participating in the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations to Combat Desertification (COP-16) in the city of Riyadh, capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of People's Power for Ecosocialism said in a press release.

The meeting will take place from December 2 to 13, at which different technical meetings will be held to discuss land degradation, as one of the most important causes of the global environmental crisis.

The Venezuelan delegation is headed by the Deputy Minister of Environmental Management Service of the Ministry of Ecosocialism, Hernán Toro; the accredited ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, David Velásquez; the National Coordinator of the UNCCD, Franklin Linares; the Science and Technology Correspondent to the UNCCD, Saida Rivero, and the first secretary of the Vice-Ministry of Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Power for Foreign Affairs, Fabiola Mendoza.

During the session, delegates carry out a mid-term evaluation of the Strategic Framework 2018-2030 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), where they will adopt the biennial budget of the UNCCD and negotiate decisions on sustainable land use. The 22nd Meeting of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 22) and the 16th Meeting of the Committee on Science and Technology (CCT 16) will also be convened.

In addition, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has established a position regarding technical elements and needs for the care of our vulnerable communities and ecosystems.

Regarding the work agenda, which began on Saturday, November 30 and extended to Sunday, December 1, the delegation participated in the preparatory and consultation meetings of the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC), to address technical and logistical issues. They also appointed representatives in groups and working groups, and regional positions were defined.

These meetings were attended by the Secretary General of the Convention, the Executive Secretariat and representatives of the Global Mechanism, who presented the results of reports.

So far, eight interventions have been developed in which Venezuela has highlighted the proposal that establishes a political vision in line with the central themes of the convention, such as gender, youth, indigenous peoples, land tenure, evaluation of the results of reports.

In particular, with a lot of interest in the development of actions to combat drought, through the use of funding opportunities and the consolidation of bases to negotiate capacity building in Venezuela, embodied in the Sixth Ecological Transformation as a political program to be developed in the period 2025-2031.

Mazo News Team