Media representatives are advised that the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, will participate in a UN-led media availability to pass the torch to Colombia, which will host the 16th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, also known as COP16. He will be joined by the Honourable Maria Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, and Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.