The Government of Jalisco inaugurated this Friday the photographic exhibition "Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change: Footprints in the European Union and Mexico."
The Guadalajara Metropolitan Park will be hosting a walk-through version of this exhibition displaying 40 photographs throughout the park. There is also an on-line version that can be viewed from the climayvida link following this article.
26 photographers participated in the exhibition showing exquisite pictures of landscapes, flora, mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects from 11 European countries including Belgium, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Spain, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden; and Mexico.
"The objective of this exhibition is to raise awareness, particularly among young Mexicans about the impacts that climate change has on various countries, and to show that Europe also has biodiversity, although not as varied as in Mexico and Jalisco. Mexico and the The European Union has solid cooperation in the protection of biodiversity. We participate in the Commitment of Leaders for Nature, within the framework of the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity," highlighted Mr. Gautier Mignot, Honorable Ambassador of the European Union in Mexico.
Through this exhibition, a reflection on the balance in nature in the face of the effects of climate change is proposed, with concrete examples. It is invited to reflect on the accelerated extinction of species, as an urgent call to avoid the massive disappearance that would have serious consequences for the human species itself.
The government of Jalisco has strengthened alliances with EU countries on environmental matters. Last March a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Kingdom of Denmark to strengthen the green economy of our state with a gender perspective. In the same month, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the German Cooperation Agency GIZ to implement actions focused on reducing emissions from freight transport, and thereby achieve a significant impact on improving the competitiveness of the industrial and transport sector.
"The Government of Jalisco has integrated a state strategy for the conservation of biodiversity, and it is the first strategy for the integration of biodiversity in the productive sectors that allows us to influence the management of the landscape to ensure the conservation of biodiversity. We have a climate agenda. The governor has been emphatic that Jalisco has to be a leader in climate matters. We have to do everything possible to join what the European Union has proposed in terms of climate and biodiversity conservation by 2050," emphasized Sergio Graf Montero, head of Semadet.
The European Union has positioned itself as a leader in the fight against climate change, mobilizing all foreign policy instruments and international alliances to define a new and ambitious global framework on biodiversity, guaranteeing its recovery. This for the benefit of people, the planet, the climate, and the economy; and in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and with the objectives of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
The "Biodiversity Strategy 2030" joins the "European Green Deal," which seeks the transition to an equitable and prosperous society with a modern economy, efficient in the use of resources yet competitive, in which there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases by the year 2050, and economic growth is decoupled from the use of natural resources.
The photographic exhibition will be open to the public from June 25 to October 25, 2021, and it can also be visited in its electronic version where you can click into each picture for further information: