The Secretary of State for the Environment, Federico Ramos, highlighted the Government’s efforts to maintain Spain as a benchmark in biodiversity, during his speech at the XI Meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity held in Hyderabad (India).

The Secretary of State today gave a presentation at the Panel “Implementation of the Strategic Plan on Biodiversity”, within the framework of the aforementioned Meeting of the Parties to the Convention (COP11), which will last until next Friday, and which, among other issues, analyzes the different lines of action of international policy in the field of conservation.

Federico Ramos said that over the last twenty years, the Convention on Biological Diversity has played a “fundamental role” in promoting the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and, in this regard, he valued the contribution of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, an initiative adopted at the last meeting of the Conference of the Parties held in Nagoya (Japan) to halt the loss of biodiversity.

He explained that Spain updated its planning instrument for the conservation of biodiversity after Nagoya, through the Strategic Plan for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity 2011-2017.

With this initiative, according to Federico Ramos, “a state response has been given to ensure that our natural capital is managed in a sustainable way” and, at the same time, faces the collective challenge of conserving biodiversity “from a global perspective and with an integrative approach”.

During this day, Ramos met with the Spanish trade unions and NGOs participating in the forum and held a meeting with the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Braulio Ferreira de Souza.