President Gustavo Petro called “deluded“to whom”They deny that the extinction of biodiversity and life has begun“, at the inauguration, this Sunday, October 20, the COP16 of Biodiversity in Cali, where he also defended that “it is essential to exchange debt for climate action“.
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“Those who think in world forums like this one that the free market can lead to the maximization of well-being and that it will lead human beings to be bearers of life are deluded.“added Petro, and predicted that”perhaps the greatest battle is about to begin (…) it is the great battle of life“.
In this sense, the president said that Colombia wants to be part of this “great battle of life”, because “it is the heart of the world, the country of beauty.”
“The only reason for humanity to exist is life itself, to take care of life and not destroy it.“added the president.
COP16 brings together delegations from 190 countries in Cali what will they discuss how climate commitments are progressing and how to stop the loss of biodiversity, in plenary sessions and negotiations that will last until November 1.
(See: COP16, the opportunity to lay the foundations for a new relationship between peace and nature).
In his inaugural speech, Petro took the opportunity to question Artificial Intelligence, which “It expands without any human regulation, without a regulation built, publicly, rationally and collectively by all the peoples of the world.” and that “today it uses dirty and fossil energies, such as coal, oil and gas.”
Therefore, when “Climate collapse is articulated with artificial intelligence, Armageddon occurs“, he added to talk about the end of times.
COP16 Inauguration.
Climate finance
“We need to change global finance, is the theme of this forum. Now they are linked to greed, that is, to death. Who said that planetary life is saved through banking projects, linked to the interest rate, to projects that make profits and fill the hunger of greed (…) it is essential today to change debt for climate action“added Petro.
(See: Save the Children’s call to put children at the center of the environmental agenda).
For the Colombian president, “Those that emit the most CO2 into the atmosphere are the fossil, oil and coal economies, they are the powerful economies of the United States, China and Europe.“, and they are the ones that “charge surcharges on the interest rate to the countries that can still absorb CO2 today”, which he referred to as global warming gas.
“That is a true moral and deadly contradiction,” so it is the “richest, predatory” countries that must be taxed to eliminate carbon from production and consumption.
The president insisted that “capital and profit have broken a delicate but fundamental balance of existence, the climate” and asked civil society to lead a mobilization “to bring capital to decarbonization”, to decarbonize “the entire economy.”
In this regard, he assured that it is “the youth” that “must come to the front today, led by the female hand” to achieve these changes. “We, the warriors of old, just have to follow his arrow,” added the head of state.
(See: COP16: countries prepare to discuss agreements focused on environmental protection).
EFE
