VANCOUVER — Politicians and environmental leaders from more than 180 countries have been in Vancouver, B.C.
, this week, with many pledging to accelerate action on climate change and biodiversity loss at the assembly of the Global Environment Facility.
"The climate and biodiversity crisis is not something that is going to happen later this century, in 25 years," Rodriguez said in an interview ahead of the assembly, the seventh since his organization launched in 1991.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the assembly ahead of its close Friday, saying Canada is experiencing its worst-ever wildfire season and"climate change is key to the story.
The minister made the remarks Wednesday as he opened a meeting with several dozen of his counterparts from around the world in Squamish, B.C., to discuss progress, challenges and opportunities in implementing the global biodiversity framework struck at the United Nations meeting in Montréal last December.
Canada has earmarked $200 million for the new Global Biodiversity Framework Fund set up to help finance the implementation of the agreement struck in Montréal, which aims to put nature on path to recovery by the end of the decade."We will keep working with our international partners to mobilize $20 billion per year by 2025 and $30 billion by 2030 in financial resources for biodiversity," he said.
Canada is among 40 states that have contributed money over the last 30 years, helping the organization provide $23 billion in fundingand facilitate more than five times that amount in co-financing for 5,000 projects in developing countries. The Global Environment Facility has so far worked mainly with political executives whose approval is required for civil society groups to receive any funding, he said.
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