As the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference, known as CBD COP16, enters its last few days in Cali, Colombia, attendees have cause for hope. With the right plan and sufficient resolve, today ...

COP16 took a landmark step by establishing a permanent subsidiary body focused on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. This new structure will embed Indigenous voices across biodiversity policy, ...

What is COP16? COP16 is part of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and it’s more crucial now than ever. With more than a million species at risk of extinction and ecosystems ...

Cop16 talks will also focus on further developing the monitoring framework to track global efforts on nature. This year, there are expectations for a major agreement on the fair and equitable ...

More than half of the world's total GDP is at least moderately dependent on nature. Yet arguably, there is no economy (or ...

Reuters. Colombia's Environment Minister Susana Muhamad and other participants attend the opening plenary of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Yumbo, Colombia October 21, 2024.

As the United Nations two-week COP16 biodiversity summit kicks off on Monday in Cali, Colombia, here is what you need to know about nature's rapid decline - and its importance to the global economy.

Nearly 200 countries gather at COP16 to discuss meeting 2022 treaty pledges. Environmental leaders convene in Cali, Colombia, to debate how to save nature from current rate of destruction and live ...

Government officials, companies and nongovernmental organizations will meet this week in Cali, Colombia, for COP16 to attempt to hash out the details over how to stop losses of biodiversity, ...

Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN-backed report coinciding with COP16 talks on desertification in Saudi Arabia said ...

World At COP16, Colombia seeks to lead by example on biodiversity. As one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, Colombia is determined to lead by example when it hosts an upcoming UN summit ...

For COP16 chair and Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhamad, the theme of Peace with Nature means understanding that climate change and restoring nature are both sides ...