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

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

The international UN conference on biodiversity attempts to achieve key agreements, and fulfill prior ones ANALYSIS | ...

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 ...

Home to diverse ecosystems like primary forests, peatlands and mangroves, Africa nevertheless faces severe biodiversity ...

IIED issued a mixed verdict on the outcome of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, which ended last weekend ...

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 ...

Colombia, one of the most biodiverse countries, is hosting the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, COP16, in Cali this year. We begin in the Llanos, a vast tropical grassland east of the ...

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 ...

From protecting genetic data to failing to make action plans to conserve biodiversity, COP16 has been a mixed bag of successes and pitfalls ...

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 ...

Nearly 200 countries endorsed the creation of a new global advisory body to include indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and ...