Ministers of Environment of the region advance in agreements to promote environmental agendas
30 septiembre 2020

SUSTAINABILITY

Climate change. On September 16, the Ibero-American Forum of Ministers of the Environment approved a joint declaration to promote an environmental agenda for 2021-2022. This agenda will focus mainly on issues of biodiversity, climate change, sustainable production and consumption. On the other hand, the first virtual meeting of like-minded countries was held: “Common ambition for a global agreement on plastics,” organized by the European Union. Representatives from more than 20 countries, seeking a solution to single-use plastic pollution, participated in the virtual meeting. The countries are expected to continue promoting policies together in order to face climate change and its impacts.

The agreement to promote an environmental agenda was given in the framework of the “X Ibero-American Conference of Ministers of the Environment.” The representatives of the different countries asked the Ibero-American General Secretariat (Segib) to develop actions that allow investing in nature as a source of health and employment through actions for the conservation, sustainable use, and restoration of terrestrial ecosystems. 

On the other hand, during the “Meeting of like-minded countries: Common ambition for a global agreement on plastics”, the different countries shared the initiatives that are being carried out to reduce the use of single-use plastic and the strategies that They are used to fight the presence of microplastics in the oceans.

Next steps

Following the results of the Fourth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 4), Norway stated that it will seek to promote the creation of a new international environmental agreement that will help control marine plastic waste. To achieve this, the Minister of the Environment announced the donation of more than US $ 5 million for procedures aimed at the materialization of this new agreement and for the activities of the working groups on plastics of the Basel Convention and the Ad Hoc group on marine waste and microplastics during 2020.

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