The Environment Ministers of Latin America and the Caribbean will have to agree this Wednesday in Panama on a common proposal, which must be approved no later than this Thursday, to take to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP28), which will begin in Dubai on November 30. After months of negotiations, the ministers of the 33 countries in the region have the last few hours to agree on a final "declaration" to take to COP28, since the document must be approved this Thursday, reported the AFP news agency. The ministerial meeting takes place within the framework of the "Latin American and Caribbean Climate Week", which brings together some 3,000 delegates from local and national governments, indigenous peoples, civil society and the private sector. "We have been incapable of negotiating as a bloc in global climate forums, unlike other continents, such as Africa," complained the Colombian Minister of the Environment, María Susana Muhamad, in a public plenary session, while her colleagues debated the issue at closed doors. "We will seek here in Panama to achieve a unified voice for at least two or three things for the global balance and for Latin America to begin to be heard at climate summits," declared Muhamad. In that sense, the minister added that although there are diverse positions, especially around fossil fuels and the positions of responsibility of developing countries, there is no consensus on what this transition towards renewable energies should be.