Translated by Andrés Martínez Forero
Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán continues to participate in various activities and experience-sharing forums at COP16.
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This past Sunday, Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán attended a meeting with Gregory Roberton, Special Envoy for the CHAMP initiative at GCom and C40; Ilan Cuperstein, Regional Director of C40; and Carolina Urrutia, Special Advisor for National Participation of CHAMP. The meeting focused on strengthening cooperation between Colombia and CHAMP coalition member countries to develop Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and sustainable projects.
He also participated in the inaugural Meeting of the Mayors' Forum on Urban Nature and Biodiversity, a platform for cities to reinforce their shared focus on urban nature and advocate for investments in green and blue infrastructure.
"Since taking office, we have accelerated the implementation of our Climate Action Plan. At the first meeting of the Mayors' Forum on Urban Nature and Biodiversity, I presented our investment plan to restore 1,300 hectares of the Eastern Hills, improve air quality, and restore the Bogotá River basin," stated Mayor Galán on his X account.
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The Mayors' Forum on Urban Nature and Biodiversity meeting served to reaffirm the commitment to urban nature and biodiversity, and for mayors to call for increased funding for this purpose. Carlos Fernando Galán added that local governments need spaces and direct financing to fulfill environmental commitments, and cities must raise their voices to open the discussion on how projects are financed from the international to the subnational level, and to advance the fulfillment of agreements reached in forums such as COP16.
