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

Delegates at global biodiversity talks in Rome agreed on a framework for monitoring environmental commitments and other measures.

protect biodiversity” as the COP16 biodiversity conference continues on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Rome. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP) Forest lines the Combu creek, on Combu Island on the banks of the Guama River, near the city of Belem, Para state ...

By Justin Catanoso Indigenous peoples and local communities scored perhaps the most tangible progress as the 16 United Nations, or COP16 concluded after three days of final negotiations in Rome on Feb.

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 ...

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.

At the end of February, the 16th Conference of Parties on the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) reconvened in Rome to address some unfinished business. The aim was to complete negotiations on key issues that had been left unresolved after the first COP16 took place in Cali, Colombia, in October 2024.

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,

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 BOGOTA, Colombia -- An annual United ...

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