By Alek Buttermann As the COP16 biodiversity summit kicks off in Cali, Colombia, global leaders and experts have gathered to address the alarming decline in the planet’s biodiversity. With nearly 200 countries represented,

The world's biggest nature protection conference opened in Colombia on Monday with calls for urgent action and financing to reverse humankind's rapacious destruction of biodiversity.

The venue for COP16 at the Pacific Event Center in Yumbo, near Cali, on October 17, 2024. JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP Colombia, which experienced a long armed conflict with the now defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),

The world's biggest nature protection conference opened in Colombia on Monday with its president calling for urgent action and financing to reverse humankind's rapacious destruction of biodiversity.

The world's largest nature protection conference opened in Colombia Monday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for urgent action and investment in the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund

The United Nations 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity has officially kicked off in Cali, Colombia. It is the first Biodiversity COP since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP 15 in December 2022 in Montreal,

The two-week Biodiversity Conference, or COP16, is a follow-up to the 2022 Montreal meetings where 196 countries signed a historic global treaty to protect biodiversity. The accord includes 23 measures to halt and reverse nature loss,

Cali, Colombia - October 20, 2024 Global leaders and environmental experts gathered in Cali, Colombia, on Sunday for the opening ceremony of the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity,