A United Nations summit on biodiversity that aimed to halt the collapse of nature has ended largely in disappointment as countries failed to present plans on how to save the natural world or to reach ...

COP16 also saw unprecedented participation from the public, including in the CBD’s first Green Zone in Cali. “One of Colombia ...

Nature is being pushed to the brink as logging, mining and the relentless burning of fossil fuels destroy ecosystems — but even while acknowledging the problem, countries negotiating at COP16 still ...

As the UN COP16 on biodiversity meets in Calì, Colombia, experts from McGill University are on-site, providing important input into the global conversation. These experts have been instrumental in ...

Regarding the equitable sharing of benefits from the use of genetic resource sequencing (DSI), corporations and companies using these resources agreed to make voluntary contributions to a global fund ...

At the United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia, negotiators struggle to find common ground on key issues, such as how ...

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP16, ended on Nov. 2. Several days before delegations from 177 ...

The U.N. Biodiversity Summit, also known as COP16, is underway in Cali, Colombia. For more than two years, China held the position of COP15 president, leaving behind a legacy of a historic global ...

The outcome left African and Latin American nations furious and prompted some to refuse to engage on other biodiversity ...

Learn about the critical role of biodiversity conservation in preserving ecosystems and addressing climate priorities.

Although the COP16 summit in Colombia ended with some important agreements, countries still aren’t moving fast enough to stem ...

That still doesn't cover the billions needed to halt the collapse of ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest or coral reefs. The world will need to devise ways for enticing private investment in nature ...