Leaders urge world to pay up to save nature as COP16 talks open
The nearly 200 countries meeting in Colombia for the United Nations COP16 summit must act urgently to mobilize billions of dollars to stop rapid nature destruction, U.N. leaders and national representatives urged as the talks opened on Monday.
To save nature, world leaders aim to turn words into action at biodiversity summit
The United Nations effort to achieve “harmony” with the natural world kicks off in Colombia this week. Recent reports show there's a lot of work to do to achieve that goal.
UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia with calls for action, finance
The world's biggest nature protection conference opened in Colombia on Monday (Oct 21) with calls for urgent action and financing to reverse humankind's rapacious destruction of biodiv
Nature ‘Piracy,’ Funding Battles Will Dominate UN Biodiversity Summit
Countries, investors and lenders have gathered at COP16 in Colombia to try to reverse the global decline of the biosphere.
UN biodiversity summit hears appeals for action, money to save nature
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.
COP16 biodiversity summit: Why is it vital to preserve natural ecosystems?
The COP16 summit opens this Monday in the Colombian city of Cali, with the ambition to stimulate the still timid implementation of objectives to safeguard biodiversity by 2030. But what exactly is biodiversity and what are the drivers of the collapse of species?
'Nature is on the brink of burnout,' WWF warns as COP16 biodiversity summit opens
What do African forest elephants, leatherback turtles in Guyana and river trout in mainland France have in common? The answer is that all three have been highlighted in the latest Living Planet report from the World Wide Fund for Nature.
UN chief seeks 'significant' funding at summit to save nature
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged "significant investment" in a fund created to safeguard Earth's biodiversity as he addressed delegates to the world's biggest nature protection conference in Cali,
World Leaders Join COP16 To Slow Or Reverse Biodiversity Loss By 2030
Around 190 nations are participating in COP16 in Cali, Colombia, aiming to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
World lags on 2030 nature goals headed into UN COP16 talks
Beyond getting countries to commit to conservation policies and plans, a top priority for the COP16 summit is finding new ...
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Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity
As the world grapples with plummeting levels of biodiversity, Colombia is hosting two weeks of meetings for the United ...
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Simple plan could raise the billions needed to stem biodiversity loss
A 1 per cent levy on global retail sales would plug a funding gap of $200 billion when it comes to saving nature. Can COP16 ...
UN biodiversity talks: Is the world at a tipping point?
Two years on from a historic deal to halt nature's decline, there's concern about the lack of progress. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate, threatening human food supply, health and security.
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Hard Numbers: India and China reach border understanding, UN biodiversity summit gets underway, Russia plots an alternative to the dollar, UK allows Saudi dissident t…
India and China have reportedly reached a common understanding on patrols of their long-disputed border in the Himalayas. The ...
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Faith coalition at UN biodiversity summit presses countries to deliver on pledges
Among delegates attending the latest United Nations biodiversity summit, called COP16, is a coalition of faith groups who say ...
'Amazon tipping point' focuses attention on escalating biodiversity loss
Global environmental leaders are assessing the world’s plummeting biodiversity levels and commitments by countries to protect ...
UN Biodiversity Conference: What's At Stake?
The world's pledges to halt humankind's destruction of nature will be put to the test when the 16th UN conference on ...