The Biodiversity Foundation, a public foundation of the Government of Spain, under the Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, supports the participation of environmental NGOs in the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which, from 1 to 12 December, brings together representatives from 187 countries in Poznan. Poland.

A delegation from the Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, led by the Minister, Elena Espinosa, and the Secretary of State for Climate Change, Teresa Ribera, is taking part in the ministerial section of this conference, which has also been set up at the fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

The MARM insists in Poznan on the need to make a strong commitment to climate change policies, modifying traditional energy and development patterns, in order to overcome the current international financial and economic situation. The aim is to transform current growth models into more efficient and less energy-dependent models, through the decisive incorporation of technology that allows progress towards a low-carbon economy.

Poznan is considered a transitory meeting, but a fundamental one in the international negotiations on climate change that will take place throughout 2009 with a view to COP 15 (scheduled for December 2009, in Copenhagen), at which a global and comprehensive agreement on the international climate regime should be reached from 2012 onwards. the so-called “post-Kyoto”.