Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work ...

As the meeting concluded late Thursday in Rome, participants stood up and applauded the outcomes. “The applause is for all of you. You have done an amazing job,” said the COP16 president, Susana Muhamad of Colombia. COP16’s successful conclusion is ...

By Justin Catanoso Delegates and observers applauded, with caveats, the delayed conclusion of the 16 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP16, in Rome on Feb. 28. The big takeaway was an agreement by the world’s nations to a multiprong pathway to raising $200 billion annually by 2030 to help reverse the rate of global species

The continued meeting of the parties to the COP16 Global Biodiversity Conference in Rome ended on February 27, 2025

UN-convened talks in Rome agreed on a finance strategy, though delayed until 2028 a decision on establishing a new global biodiversity fund

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,

After last year’s COP16 reached an impasse, negotiators will make a second attempt to agree on funding to halt the global loss of biodiversity.

Indigenous peoples have been on a “path to unprecedented progress” after the first talks in Cali adopted a new program of work on traditional knowledge and their direct participation in negotiations,

A gathering of countries in Rome this week agreed a plan to generate $200 billion in finance a year by 2030 to halt and begin to reverse the destruction of the natural world.

Susana Muhamad, Colombia's former environment minister and the COP16 president, said she's hopeful of “a good message from Rome.” “That message is that still, even with a very fragmented ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is ...