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COP16 was suspended in Cali, Colombia, in 2024 without any major financial support decision to support biodiversity conservation.

PRESS RELEASE The Cali Fund launches in the margins of the resumed session of COP16 By leveraging funding from the private sector, the Fund ushers in a new era for biodiversity finance Companies ...

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COP16 biodiversity talks to restart in February: U.N. The largest summit yet on biodiversity - the so-called COP16 talks in Cali, Colombia - were aimed at boosting efforts to protect nature from ...

COP16 failed to deliver meaningful progress on funding nature’s protection and restoration. How can governments, businesses and the financial community step up?

Many observers left COP16 disappointed, but there were some wins for biodiversity protection in Cali, Colombia. One was a new subsidiary body to give Indigenous peoples, who protect about 80% of ...

Murals of biodiversity seen in Cali, Colombia, during the COP16 UN biodiversity conference. PHOTO: Courtesy of Muhammad Nasry Abdul Nasir ...

COP16 also saw unprecedented participation from the public, including in the CBD’s first Green Zone in Cali. “One of Colombia’s main goals was to bring together diverse community voices from around ...

The Cali Fund aims to finance biodiversity conservation and reward those who are frontline protectors of biodiversity such as indigenous people and forest dwellers Big pharma, cosmetics ...