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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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

Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: ...

A UN Special Rapporteur on climate change and human rights urged countries on Monday to phase out fossil fuels to combat the climate crisis following the 10 hottest years in history, which saw ...

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 ...