Delegates from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Canada to try to fix humanity's relationship with nature. The convention comes during an emerging extinction crisis.

The meeting is known as COP15, because it’s the 15th conference of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Ultimately, its goal is a new 10-year agreement that would enable the ...

Tomorrow is the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) 2025, a day set aside to raise awareness about the importance of biodiversity and its preservation is celebrated on May 22 every ...

The Rio conventions established a new global multilateral system to address biodiversity loss and climate change via a series of Conferences of the Parties to the convention, or CoPs.

We should make use of the extraordinary capacity of the World Heritage Convention to support biodiversity conservation. ... Through four goals and 23 targets, it sets out an ambitious plan to take ...

Delegates from 196 countries at the UN biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, approved on Friday a permanent body to represent Indigenous interests under the convention. Representatives from ...

This week, the Convention is meeting in Cali, Colombia, for an event known as COP16. Its members — governments from more than 190 countries — are negotiating plans for protecting forests and ...

Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity at last year's COP16 conference in Cali, Colombia, had been unable to reach a consensus on how to deliver financing of $200 billion (€192.5 ...

A recent biodiversity meeting acknowledged the serious problem of deforestation while a new report on global environmental threats to trees offered a startling estimate.

Biodiversity—the variety of life on Earth—is critical to human survival and well-being. ... Uganda ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) ... To achieve harmony with nature, ...