'Earth Charter' talks about the results achieved at COP15 on biodiversity

By Isabella Caminoto / 07/01/2023 / 1 minute reading

In Carta da Terra, published this week by Earth News, Lourival Sant'Anna talks about her conversation with Bráulio Dias, representative of the transitional government at COP15 on Biodiversity in Montreal, professor in the Department of Ecology at UnB (University of Brasília), director of the Scientific Panel for the Amazon and secretary of the UN Biodiversity Convention between 2012 and 2017. He reports that, in the chat, the professor made a very positive assessment of the Summit results and stated that Brazil played a central role in preventing the meeting of 195 countries ended without an agreement.

The publication highlights a very important advance, achieved within the scope of COP15: the creation of a multilateral fund to repatriate benefits from companies that make use of digital genetic information. Thus, organizations are now obliged to report the benefits they obtain from this genetic material, so that traditional communities are remunerated. Companies must also report the negative impacts of their actions on the biodiversity. 🌱

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⚠️ The conversation with Bráulio will air in three parts: on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, on the channel Earth News Earth on YouTube and podcast apps. Don't miss it!

🌳 Other highlights of the week:

Elected federal deputy Marina Silva resumed the Ministry of the Environment, which added “and Climate Change” to its name;
President Lula gave minister Marina Silva 45 days to present a Conama restructuring plan to the government. The National Environmental Council was emptied and diverted from functions in the Bolsonaro government; It is
President Lula's decree authorized the use of R$3,3 billion from the Amazon Fund.

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