UN biodiversity conference focuses on whether worldwide efforts to protect land, water are working Published: Oct. 17, 2024, 6:58 a.m. Bigeye trevally fish swim against the current at Wolf Island ...

Global talks to protect biodiversity have restarted with a call for humanity to come together to “sustain life on the planet” and overcome a fight over funding that caused the previous meeting ...

Without a thriving world, it would be nearly impossible to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development goals (SDGs) – ...

This one is officially called the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. It's COP 16 because it's the sixteenth such meeting that ...

The United Nations biodiversity summit, known as COP16, is being held in Cali, Colombia. The international meeting is the first since countries in 2022 adopted a landmark deal aimed at halting and ...

UN biodiversity talks resume with dispute over funding topping the agenda. Annual conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year resumes in Rome with nations sparring over money.

Related. Talks to protect Earth’s biodiversity resume in Rome with money topping the agenda. By Steven Grattan, Associated Press. As UN conference nears, countries have made little progress ...

Still, she assured reporters at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia, that progress is being made. Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister and COP16 president, ...

The two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP16, is a follow-up to the 2022 Montreal meetings where 196 countries signed a historic global treaty to protect biodiversity.

What’s missing from that are vast areas of the deep sea, particularly in the southern hemisphere. Invertebrates, despite ...

An Indigenous Brazilian delegate attends the opening ceremony of COP16, a United Nations' biodiversity conference, in Cali, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.