In a meeting with embassy officials, the CITMA president referred to the positive results of his current working visit to the FAO, during which he is fulfilling a broad agenda of meetings with authorities of that organization.

Rodriguez emphasized the importance of developing environmental and climate projects for agricultural work, and referred in particular to the recent creation on the island of the Carbon Market Technical Unit.

In Cuba, he noted, this new mechanism, the carbon market, is currently being promoted. The carbon market assigns a monetary value to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with the aim of mitigating climate change.

Through this mechanism, managed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, companies and governments are incentivized to reduce their polluting emissions by facilitating the purchase or sale of so-called “carbon credits.”

As part of the activities carried out at the FAO, Rodriguez highlighted the meetings held with directors and officials from the Climate Change and Biodiversity offices, as well as with the organization’s chief scientist, Charles Spillane.

As the culmination of his visit to this United Nations agency, the Cuban minister held a meeting this Friday with its Director-General, Qu Dongyu, with whom he engaged in a productive exchange.

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