Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds needed and the institutions through which the funds will be channel ...

Months after the collapse of the COP16 biodiversity conference ... but negotiations broke down at last year’s meeting in Colombia over how to raise the $200 billion needed.

The area is critical to the overall health of the planet. Nation makes major progress on critical issue — here's what's ...

The impacts of business activities on biodiversity are clear. Habitat destruction, resource extraction, pollution and climate change have driven extinction rates up to 1,000 times higher than natural ...

When the COP16 U.N. biodiversity summit ended without a final agreement in October 2024 in Cali, Colombia, negotiators agreed to meet in Rome, Italy, in February. There, the parties mapped a ...

A gathering of countries in Rome this week agreed a plan to generate $200 billion in finance a year by 2030 to halt and begin to reverse the destruction of the natural world.

The meeting in Rome was a resumption of talks held last fall in Cali, Colombia, officially called the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP16.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds needed and the institutions through ...

You have done an amazing job,” said the COP16 president, Susana Muhamad of Colombia. COP16’s successful conclusion is the first United Nations meeting in many months which ended on a positive ...