Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

DARK SECRETS: Cop16 - The Real Truth

UN talks end in Rome with nations backing $200 billion a year plan to protect nature

Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds needed and the institutions through which the funds will be channeled to protect the world’s biodiversity

The Independent UK

Global conservation talks resume in Rome amid funding deadlock

The world's biggest nature conservation conference resumed in Rome today, Tuesday, in a bid to overcome a deadlock between northern and southern countries over funding. Negotiations collapsed last year, with the head of the meeting warning that increasing global "polarisation" was frustrating efforts to protect the planet.

Radio France Internationale

Crucial UN nature talks are about to reopen in Rome – but will enough countries turn up?

After last year’s Cop16 biodiversity talks in Cali left key issues unresolved, the extra summit will attempt to seek consensus, especially over funding

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

UN Biodiversity Conference In Rome Focuses On Funding

Learn about the upcoming UN biodiversity conference in Rome focusing on financial matters to safeguard plant and animal life on Earth.

Top News

More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges – analysis

Many of the nations gathering in Rome for Cop16 have offered no plans to honour their agreement to protect 30% of land and sea for nature

The Guardian - UK

UN report warns increase in permanently dry land is 'redefining life on Earth'

Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN-backed report has found. The data coincides with Cop16 talks on desertification held in Saudi Arabia until Friday.

Radio France Internationale

Saudi Arabia hosts Cop16 to combat desertification crisis

Saudi Arabia is hosting the United Nations Cop16 conference on desertification this week, with the world's top oil exporter positioning itself as an environmental defender despite criticism of its role at previous climate talks.

Radio France Internationale

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

COP16 Biodiversity Talks To Restart In February: UN

Crunch United Nations talks to find funding to curb the destruction of nature will resume in Rome in February, the UN said on Thursday, after negotiations this month in Colombia ended without a deal.

International Business Times

Companies won’t survive in a nature-depleted world – I’ve met the business owners who are taking action

After the conclusion of UN biodiversity conference Cop16, it was easy to feel disappointed. In Cali, Colombia, discussions fell short on how to monitor targets and progress remains slow. Despite agreements, Cop16 lacked urgency from governments and the UN on how to halt the crisis in the natural world.

The Conversation

The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other

Climate change and biodiversity policies have largely evolved in isolation, even though the two crises are deeply intertwined. They have their own UN summits, with the same name and numbering system: the UN biodiversity summit Cop16 just concluded in Colombia, while the climate summit Cop29 is happening right now in…

The Conversation

Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16

Questions raised over influence after 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for biodiversity summit in Colombia

The Guardian - UK

Global biodiversity offsetting doesn’t work – keep schemes local, say experts

Voluntary standards proposed at Cop16 focus on local like-for-like habitat projects, while critics call the issue a ‘distraction’

The Guardian - UK

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 progress for protecting Africa's flora and fauna, analysts hope future efforts will address the continent's environmental concerns more effectively.

Radio France Internationale

Cop16: the world’s largest meeting to save nature has ended with no clear path ahead

Progress at the UN’s biodiversity summit, Cop16, in Cali, Colombia, has been slow. Frustratingly so.

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

We are in danger of forgetting what the climate crisis means: extinction

The catastrophic floods in Valencia remind us that the fate of human beings and animals is what is truly important

The Guardian - UK

Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs

Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promises

Radio France Internationale

Summit to save nature enters final day with disagreement on funding

The world's biggest nature conservation conference enters its final day in Colombia Friday with negotiators at odds over how best to fund plans to "halt and reverse" species loss.

The Guardian - UK

Alarm grows over ‘disturbing’ lack of progress to save nature at Cop16

Fears raised that biodiversity summit not addressing countries’ failure to meet a single target to stem destruction of natural world

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Top News

UN Urges Global Action To Save Biodiversity

U.N. Secretary-General calls for increased global efforts to protect biodiversity at COP16 summit in Colombia, highlighting urgent conservation needs and f...

The Conversation

‘Noah’s arks’ for fruit trees: How conservation orchards preserve and boost biodiversity

The COP16 biodiversity conference opened on October 21, 2024. The UN conference is an opportunity to highlight that biodiversity is crucial for ensuring a sustainable food system. However, it is directly threatened by climate change and its side effects, such as the emergence of parasites. These disruptions, which reduce crop…

The Guardian - UK

The world needs $700bn a year to restore nature. But where is the money coming from?

Representatives from nearly 200 countries at the UN’s Cop16 summit in Colombia have yet to break the deadlock over who pays and how much

The Guardian - UK

Sex swings, dance poles and mirrored ceilings: ‘love motels’ provide last-minute rooms for Cop16 delegates

Thousands more people than expected are at the biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, and hotels are full – leading the city’s council to press less orthodox accommodation into service

Evening Standard

England ‘seen as world leading on nature-friendly farming at Cop16’

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering a £100 million cut to funding for nature-friendly farming in Wednesday’s Budget.

Latin Times

COP16: Can Colombia Lead The Global Fight Against Climate Change?

The country's efforts to become a leader in the area are being undermined by armed groups operating in the country

The National (Scotland)

Scotland is 'critical' to achieving goal of 'restoring biodiversity globally'

SCOTLAND is “critical to achieving the goal” of “restoring biodiversity globally” says NatureScot, as the COP16 summit gets under way ...

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.