The two countries reach a $ 200 billion deal to protect nature. The United States was not involved

This week, the two countries gathered in Rome agreed to a plan to generate $ 200 billion in financing annually by 2030 to stop and start destroying the natural world.

The United Nations COP16 talks on biological diversity began last October in Colombia, but at that time failed to reach an agreement on the main elements, including who will contribute, and how the money will be collected and who will supervise it.

US President Donald Trump expands the scope of the world’s largest economy in financing development, and therefore the agreement late Thursday night was a welcome boost to make global deals.

Under the leadership of the alleged Brax-Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa-the final deal witnessed the approval of the delegates to a plan to find at least 200 billion US dollars annually from a group of sources to protect nature.

Susanna Mohamed, head of COP16, head of the outgoing environment in Colombia, was a victory for nature and multiple parties in a year when the political scene is increasingly fragmented and diplomatic frictions grow.

Muhammad said: “From Kali to Rome, we sent a light of hope that the public good and the environment and the protection of life and the ability to gather for something greater than the national interest are possible.”

The agreement is also a victory for Canadian diplomatic efforts. The financial deal is the result of a prominent agreement in Montreal in 2022, when countries agreed to protect 30 percent of the world’s lands and oceans.

The Canadian negotiators, led by Federal Environment Minister Stephen Gilbolt, obtained this deal through complex and risky negotiations that include 196 countries.

Since then, the Canadian government has prompted financing to the efforts to save at home, including advertisement On Thursday, at a value of $ 200 million for the preservation led by the Invieh in the Arctic.

The delegates also agreed to explore whether to create a new biological diversity box, according to the request of some developing countries, or whether the current box is like the boxes run by the global environment facility is sufficient. GEF has provided more than 23 billion dollars to us for thousands of natural projects in the past thirty years.

“Everyone has a spirit of settlement made concessions, and in general to developing countries was the very result
“Positive”, Maria Angelika Ikida, Director of the Brazilian Ministry of Environment, told Reuters to be drawn on Thursday.

“I got out of the meeting happy and optimistic.”

The need to work has increased only in recent years, as the average volume of wildlife has decreased by 73 percent since 1970, which is data from the World’s World’s Fund 2024 Life Planet Report He appears.

The specter of discounts in aid was also perceived in the negotiating rooms, which raised the frustration between some countries from Brazil to Egypt and that the rich countries did not fulfill their obligations to provide grant funds.

Georgina Chandler, president of the London Zone Society, urged governments to fulfill their commitment to $ 30 billion annually by 2030 to stop and lose biological diversity.

The deal in Rome helps in setting the steps necessary to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Servingization framework (GBF), which was agreed upon in 2022 and is committed to the two countries with a set of environmental goals.

The two countries also approved a set of technical rules to monitor the progress made towards GBF and secure a commitment to the countries to publish a national report on biological diversity plans in the following natural conference, COP17, which will be held in Armenia in 2026.

The talks come at the beginning of a year full of international climate diplomacy, as the two countries meet in various events to discuss plastic pollution, maintain oceans and achieve global development goals, before COP30 Climate talks in November.