As the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference, known as CBD COP16, enters its last few days in Cali, Colombia, attendees have cause for hope. With the right plan and sufficient resolve, today ...

Countries and companies meeting in Cali face tough questions over funding for biodiversity, indigenous rights and who pays for nature’s genetic bounty.

More than half of the world's total GDP is at least moderately dependent on nature. Yet arguably, there is no economy (or ...

One of COP16’s most significant achievements was the creation of the “Cali Fund,” a pioneering mechanism to share benefits from digital sequence information (DSI) on genetic resources. This fund ...

CALI, Colombia (2 November 2024) – Early this morning, 196 countries at the COP16 UN biodiversity conference in Colombia agreed to establish a new global fund dedicated to sharing the benefits derived ...

INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES COP16 host country Colombia has put the inclusion of Indigenous and traditional communities at the center of its agenda in Cali.

The United Nations COP16 biodiversity talks in Cali, Colombia, were suspended Saturday after rich countries blocked a proposal to set up a new fund to help poorer nations restore their depleted ...

During this month's U.N. Biodiversity Summit, known as COP16, in the Colombian city of Cali, nearly 200 countries will be debating how they can save nature from the current rapid rate of ...

CALI, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia at the U.N. COP16 biodiversity talks on Tuesday launched a coalition with 20 other countries seeking to make "peace with nature," as leaders warned that the ...

The COP16, held in the city of Cali through November 1, is the first meeting of the international community since the adoption two years ago of an unprecedented roadmap to achieve that goal.

Thanks to the efforts of civil society, multilateral dialogue on solutions to the underlying causes of biodiversity loss continued during a major event held today at COP16 in Cali.