Venezuela participates in the Ministerial Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean on the way to COP30

Published at: 25/08/2025 05:20 PM

Venezuela joined the Ministerial Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean for the implementation of Regional Climate Action, which will be held from August 25 to 26 in Mexico City.

The meeting brings together ministers of environment from 22 Latin American countries as part of the preparations for the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), to be held in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to 21, 2025.

During the high-level opening session, the Minister of Popular Power for Ecosocialism, Ricardo Molina, highlighted the ecosocialist and territorial approach to Venezuelan environmental policy.

“We have come to show and contribute from our perspective, that the agenda we are developing is popular, with the People, in the territory, with an ecosocialist approach,” he said.

Molina explained that Venezuela is working on a new territorial configuration based on 5,336 Communes, each with a Communal Government Chamber and its respective Ecosocialist Council, which exercises environmental authority in the territory.

In this regard, he pointed out that initiatives such as the National Reforestation Plan cannot be implemented only from a central institution, but from the community organization.

“The monitoring, the combat and the fight against climate change ordered by the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, is being worked on from every commune,” he said.

He also explained that a meteorological station is being consolidated in each Commune, with local readers and observers reporting to a central station, by democratizing access and management of climate information.

These actions are part of Vertex 1 of the Great Mother Earth Venezuela Mission, focused on territorial organization. The Ecosocialist Councils and the Communal Government Chambers identify priority basins for reforestation, based on local risk maps that are integrated into regional and national diagnoses, in order to strengthen the environmental awareness of the Venezuelan people.

The Ministerial Meeting aims to strengthen regional climate action, consolidate common positions and define a road map with a Latin American and Caribbean vision.

Among the issues addressed are the protection of ecosystems and communities, the just transition of the workforce, climate finance and synergies with the 2030 Agenda and other environmental agreements.