COP16, that is, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, will be held at the end of October in the hot, tropical city of Cali, Colombia.

As international delegates convene in Cali, Colombia for the United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, the host is dominating the limelight. The Colombian government views the conference as an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delegates at the talks, known as COP16, shorthand for the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, called the agreement an important breakthrough.

Government officials, companies and nongovernmental organizations will meet this week in Cali, Colombia, for COP16 to attempt to hash out the details over how to stop losses of biodiversity, ...

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 ...

Leaders from around the world are gathering in Cali for the next two weeks for a U.N. biodiversity summit, called COP16, where Colombia and other species-rich nations will urge wealthy ones to ...

Demonstration against the murder of environmental activists at COP16, Cali, Colombia, October 31, 2024. LUIS ACOSTA / AFP. Activists from indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant communities are ...

CALI, Colombia, October 25, 2024 (ENS) – The world’s most important event to conserve biodiversity, the United Nations biodiversity summit known as COP16, officially opened in Colombia on ...

Reuters. Colombia's Environment Minister Susana Muhamad and other participants attend the opening plenary of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Yumbo, Colombia October 21, 2024.

Set to run from October 21 to November 1 in the western city of Cali, the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the Convention on Biological Diversity offers a pivotal moment to assess global ...