Ecuador’s goal is to reduce 22.5% of emissions by 2025.
President Guillermo Lasso invited all world leaders to decide to move from speech to action: “Let us seize this unique opportunity to support the ecological transition and walk together towards true climate and environmental justice.”
Ecuador’s goal is to reduce 22.5% of emissions by 2025. And it is that “Ecuador is the first country in Latin America to adopt the public policy of ecological transition towards a circular economy, resilient and low in emissions”, indicated during his speech on Tuesday, November 2, at the COP26 Leaders’ Summit held in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
There was consensus with environmentalists and the fishing sector to add an additional 60,000 km2 to the Galapagos marine reserve
Before them he recognized that the planet and its climate system is in crisis, with direct consequences in food insecurity, loss of income, diseases, water scarcity, forced displacement, affecting more poor and vulnerable countries and that for this reason it is urgent ” a global action, based on a strong and renewed multilateralism, greater cooperation and international solidarity ”.
The president indicated that the country’s most ambitious climate policy is the construction of the National Transition Plan towards the Decarbonization of the economy by 2050, with investment projects in electric mobility, renewable energy, agriculture, tourism, habitat and circular economy.
This, the president insisted, requires a significant increase in international climate financing and cooperation, as well as the participation of the private sector and all other actors in society.
In the plenary session of COP26, Lasso reiterated his announcement made the day before to establish a new marine reserve in Galapagos of 60,000 square kilometers. And he stressed that for this “we achieved a consensus between the sectors involved, such as fishing, tourism, conservation, among others.”
Actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio congratulated President Guillermo Lasso on the expansion of the Galapagos marine reserve
He considers it a historic statement and an innovative example for the world on how to implement the Paris Agreement in synergy with other commitments, as well as contributing to the fulfillment of the promise to protect at least 30% of the oceans by 2030.
The president shared the idea that experts have expressed that COP26 “is perhaps the last opportunity to demonstrate the commitment and co-responsibility of all States and the international community.”
He indicated that all efforts “will be insufficient” if at this COP26 no progress is made in determining a new global climate financing objective, with a component of subsidies for adaptation and the confrontation of losses and damages derived from climate change.
Ecuador data exposed at the climate summit:
– It is one of the 17 megadiverse countries on the planet that together have more than two-thirds of all the world’s biodiversity.
– Ecuador is responsible for just 0.18% of global emissions.
– It is the first country in Latin America and fourth in the world to adopt the transversal public policy of the ecological transition towards a circular, resilient and low-emission economy. (I)
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