{"id":10724,"date":"2025-05-23T13:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:24:34","slug":"ecology-congress-invitation-to-international-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/ecology-congress-invitation-to-international-solidarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecology Congress: Invitation to International Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senat.bi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/senat2373-300x200.jpg\" \/>On May 22, 2025, the Burundi Senate Speaker, Right Honourable Emmanuel Sinzohagera, participated in the opening ceremonies of the 11<sup>th<\/sup> International Ecology Congress, held in St. Petersburg, Federal Republic of Russia, at the Tauride Palace, under the theme <strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Planet Earth: <\/strong><strong>Living in <\/strong><strong>Harmony <\/strong><strong>with<\/strong><strong> Nature.<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\">For this first day, after the opening of the congress, the Senate Speaker took part in the panel discussions organized on two themes: <strong>\u201c<\/strong>Food Security in a Context of Climate Change<strong>\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201c<\/strong>Sustainable Development of the BRICS: How Does the Environment Make the World a Better Place?<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\">After welcoming the need to hold these meetings on such a crucial issue, various speakers shared the experiences of their respective countries and the initiatives already undertaken in the areas of food security, resilience to climate change, and sustainable development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\">As a result of the discussions, it became clear that different countries do not enjoy equal food security, even though the effects of climate change are affecting everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Convinced that the pressure of climate change weighs heavily on food security, participants from several African and Asian countries agreed on the need to demonstrate shared responsibility and international solidarity; build international partnerships and collaborations in science, technology, and innovation; strengthen investments; and practice sustainable, organic, and climate-resilient agriculture. All of these efforts would help address climate change, ensure food security, and enter in the dynamics of sustainable development.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 22, 2025, the Burundi Senate Speaker, Right Honourable Emmanuel Sinzohagera, participated in the opening ceremonies of the 11th International Ecology Congress, held in St.<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10726,"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions\/10726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}