{"id":278503,"date":"2024-10-28T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=278503"},"modified":"2024-10-25T05:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T04:12:00","slug":"peace-with-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/peace-with-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace with Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conference of the governments that have signed the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity<\/em> are meeting from 21 Oct to 1 Nov 2024 in Cali, Colombia with the theme of the conference being “Peace with Nature<\/em>.”\u00a0 Peace has been a rare element in the life of Colombians. The conference is under tight security as a rebel guerrilla group is active in the area. The country as a whole still has active paramilitaries as well as strong drug gangs.<\/p>\n

Antonio Guterres, the U.N. Secretary-General in his opening statement highlighted that destroying Nature increases conflict, hunger, disease and fuels poverty.\u00a0 Susana Muhamad, Colombian Minister of the Environment, who is chairing the conference added that Nature is the fiber of life that makes our own existence possible.<\/p>\n

The Convention of Biological Diversity is closely related to the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030.\u00a0 An aim of the Decade is to restore 30 per cent of degraded lands by 2030.\u00a0 Such protection and creative restoration will be costly.\u00a0 As with many U.N. conferences, there is a hope that the conference will encourage governments to contribute to the U.N.-created Global Biodiversity Framework Fund created in 2022 as well as spending more money on national projects and local environmental efforts.\u00a0 Many effective initiatives must be taken at a local level and thus depend on local finance and local participation.<\/p>\n

In addition to the representatives of governments, there are a good number of members on non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local activists, academics, and representatives of indigenous populations – some 12,000 persons.\u00a0 Indigenous cultures have long practiced their own forms of environmental peacebuilding.<\/p>\n

With the site of the meeting in Latin America, a good deal of the discussion will probably focus on policies in South American countries such as Brazil where the Amazon area has been the scene of both some of the worst forms of the destruction of Nature and some enlightened positive efforts.<\/p>\n

As storms continue to devastate and wildfires burn, we strive to develop environmental peacebuilding as an emerging field that integrates knowledge and practice.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Ren\u00e9 Wadlow is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. He <\/em>is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues<\/em>, and <\/em>editor of <\/em>Transnational Perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The conference of the governments that have signed the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity are meeting from 21 Oct to 1 Nov 2024 in Cali, Colombia with the theme of the conference being “Peace with Nature.”\u00a0 It is under tight security as a rebel guerrilla group is active in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1036,686,443,794,1354,519,401,1620,391,1200,2433,1255,124],"class_list":["post-278503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-climate-change","tag-culture-of-peace","tag-deforestation","tag-earth","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-indigenous-culture","tag-nature","tag-natures-rights","tag-peacebuilding","tag-rain-forests","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278506,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278503\/revisions\/278506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}