The problem with the COP is that governments don’t act

Cali (Colombia) (EFE).- Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro called on the world’s governments to pursue concrete action at meetings where important issues such as biodiversity and climate change are discussed, because they are problems Are facing. Solution through action, not through alms.

The head of state said this at the opening ceremony of the COP16 Green Zone, held in Cali, the capital of the Valle del Cauca department in the south-west of Colombia.

“We kept talking”: Petro

The Green Zone is a space open to the public in the center of Cali where the activities of NGOs and society in general are concentrated, while plenary sessions and official meetings take place in the Blue Zone at the Vale Event Center of the Pacific.

“Governments have met (at the COP) in different parts of the world to talk about climate (…) The problem is that we have stopped talking,” Petrou said.

The Colombian President criticized that COPs sometimes end without anything concrete emerging, or sometimes with half-baked statements or declarations that lead to no further development and that commitments have not been fulfilled by signatories. goes.

no will to follow

“They are not fulfilled because the most powerful countries do not wish to comply or because humanity through its nations and peoples sometimes comes only with a kind of vessel to ask for alms, as if without alms We can solve the main problem. He stressed, “The problem of humanity: the problem of climate and the extinction of all living species on planet Earth, including the human species.”

Petro also assured that the climate and biodiversity COPs continue to fail.

“Failure after failure for 30 years. The President said, “They are driving us to the brink of death and the governments of the world cannot agree to stop this mass death. If the COP can’t do it, who can?”