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Soundbites on the importance of biodiversity from high-level meeting at FAO on the eve of COP 16.2

As representatives from more than 150 countries convene in FAO’s headquarters for the resumed session of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16.2, 25-27 February), this audio package features soundbites from FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, Colombian officials, and the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

The soundbites were extracted from the speeches delivered today (February 24) at FAO’s headquarters, during the COP 16.2 side event “Meeting people’s needs through sustainable use of biodiversity within agrifood systems.”

Asset date 02/24/2025

Language English, Spanish

Script 1. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) (00:00-00:37), FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu:

“At COP16 in Cali, Colombia, FAO together with the CBD Secretariat and the COP16 Presidency, launched the Agri Support Initiative to accelerate the implementation of the Biodiversity Framework. The initiative provides us with a collective mechanism to help governments build capacity, identify, and implement strategic levers across agrifood to achieve their national biodiversity targets. But we also need to increase the availability and affordability of financial services for biodiversity and agrifood systems.”

2. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) (00:39-01:24), FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu:
“[COP 16.2] is an important continuation of the discussion on biodiversity and agrifood systems. Our focus on biodiversity and agriculture is based on science. Biodiversity provides the foundation for food production, providing essential ecosystem services such as soil fertility, pest control, and climate adaptation.
Biodiversity is the backbone of resilient and diverse agrifood systems. Any collapse in biodiversity brings high costs to people and the social economic.
Continuing land degradation could put some 3 billion lives at risk, with the poor hardest hit.”

3. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) (1:25-1:46), María Susana Muhamad González, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia and President of COP16:
"If we shift the investments on agriculture that is destructive and we put in agriculture that is socially inclusive and biodiverse, we'll be making such a change in terms of the health of the planet."

4. SOUNDBITE (SPANISH) (1:47-2:11), Martha Carvajalino, Colombia’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development: "[Construir una agenda estratégica común entre la agricultura y el medioambiente] nada de ello puede hacerse si no avanzamos en una agenda multilateral, una acción colectiva global, que no solo ponga la discusión en la comunidad internacional, sino que logre que tengamos avances ciertos, que logremos distribuir las cargas ambientales, las cargas económicas, las cargas sociales. Construir la paz con la naturaleza implica construir la paz con las comunidades"

“[Building a common strategic agenda between agriculture and the environment] none of this can be done if we do not advance a multilateral agenda, a global collective action, which not only puts the discussion in the international community, but also ensures that we make progress, that we manage to distribute the environmental burdens, the economic burdens, the social burdens. Building peace with nature implies building peace with communities’.

5. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) (2:12-2:29), Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity:

"At the CBD, our message is very clear: biodiversity is for us the foundations of food security and the foundation of nutrition, and agriculture, as we know it, we believe would collapse without a healthy biodiversity."

Duration 2m29s

File size 41.19 MB

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