The COP16 biodiversity summit was a big flop for protecting nature
Although the COP16 summit in Colombia ended with some important agreements, countries still aren’t moving fast enough to stem biodiversity loss
With little progress at Cop16 biodiversity summit, Africa demands more action
Home to diverse ecosystems like primary forests, peatlands and mangroves, Africa nevertheless faces severe biodiversity degradation. Despite the recent Cop16 conference in Colombia offering limited
COP16 advances biodiversity protection despite ending before finance deal
The two-week conference was suspended before a crucial agreement on funding for a new global fund for nature. However, delegates made strides on corporate payments for genetic data and formal representation for Indigenous people.
COP16 roundup: The key decisions from the biodiversity summit
While some progress was made, crucial decisions on protecting nature will be left until next year after the meeting ran out of time.
Public funding for nature conservation stalls at COP16
At the COP16 negotiations in Cali, Colombia, countries failed to figure out how they would mobilize $200 billion annually in conservation funding by 2030, including $30 billion that would come directly from rich nations.
Consensus eludes COP16 on creating new biodiversity fund
India successfully intervenes at COP16 in Cali to ensure national laws are respected in a new global mechanism for sharing benefits from digital genetic information. Although the summit made progress,
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COP16 biodiversity meeting recap: Progress made, but finance lags
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP16, ended on Nov. 2. Several days before delegations from 177 ...
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The Biodiversity COP16 ends with no concrete outcome to stop biodiversity loss
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 ...
Tracking biodiversity: Researchers outline strengths and challenges in new monitoring framework
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 ...
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No funding for biodiversity at Colombia summit. Could Canada have helped?
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 ...
COP16 on biodiversity ends without agreement on crucial issues
While significant progress was made on the issues of genetic resources and indigenous peoples, negotiations failed to reach ...
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COP16 fizzles out as rich countries block global nature fund
The outcome left African and Latin American nations furious and prompted some to refuse to engage on other biodiversity ...
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Colombia hosts COP16 on biodiversity
The international UN conference on biodiversity attempts to achieve key agreements, and fulfill prior ones ANALYSIS | ...
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COP16 Biodiversity: A conclusion marked by popular success, insufficient progress
The United Nations biodiversity summit drew significant public attention, although some priority issues, such as biodiversity protection funding, were deferred. However, the event did achieve progress ...