GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Outgoing British High Commissioner to Guyana, Jane Miller, says the United Kingdom has joined the Global Biodiversity Alliance (GBA), which aims to mobilise international financing and technical expertise to protect the planet Earth.
“It feels right that we should join the Global Biodiversity Alliance,” she said Friday night at a farewell ceremony in her honour, adding, “This is a significant initiative in slowing down the global biodiversity loss”.
Launched in July, 2025, the Guyana-led GBA seeks to mobilise resources in keeping with the provisions and principles of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Guyana estimates that the world invests just US$200 billion per year in nature, but US$700 billion is needed to meet the targets set by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
Miller said that President Irfaan Ali, who was also present at the ceremony, will be travelling to London next week “for further discussions” on the GBA.
“This is a significant initiative in slowing down the global biodiversity loss,” she said.
President Ali told the ceremony that the GBA’s five pillars are advancing the global goal of conserving at least 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030, embedding biodiversity in national and corporate planning through measurable indicators, unlocking innovative finance, including biodiversity credits, green bonds, and debt-for-nature swaps, empowering Indigenous Peoples and local communities the guardians of nature and institutionalising monitoring and transparency through the Global Biodiversity Product and the Gross Biodiversity Power Index.
Then UK Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy, had also added his voice to the need for support in several areas to counter biodiversity loss and had congratulated President Ali for launching the GBA and bringing together such a “group of powerful advocates for nature in Guyana”.
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