Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on ...
19 hours ago · The two-week United Nations 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, including putting 30% of the planet and 30% of degraded ecosystems under protection by 2030.
COP16 on biodiversity: In Cali, countries will have to turn …
18 hours ago · The 16 th World Biodiversity Conference (COP16), which begins on Monday, October 21, in Cali, Colombia, won't end with the signing of a completely new agreement or commitments to protect the ...
COP16 on biodiversity: A source of national pride and a security ...
21 hours ago · Over 190 delegations and 14 state leaders are expected to attend this COP16 dedicated to safeguarding biodiversity. Colombia hopes to assert its regional and global leadership in this area, in a ...
‘Rubber hits the road’ as UN biodiversity summit COP16 kicks off …
21 hours ago · The 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference, better known as COP16, begins today in Cali, Colombia. There, delegates from almost 200 countries — or parties, as they are known in the COP process — will assess their progress on implementing the landmark Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) that was signed at the last summit in December 2022.
COP16: What’s at stake at the UN biodiversity conference
1 day ago · The world's pledges to halt humankind's destruction of nature will be put to the test when the 16th UN conference on biodiversity opens Monday in Colombia. The COP16, held in the city of Cali ...
Pressure grows for countries to deliver on promised biodiversity ...
5 days ago · The agreement signed by 196 countries at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference calls for protecting 30% of land and water by 2030, known as 30 by 30. When the agreement was signed, 17% of terrestrial and 10% of marine areas were protected — which hasn’t changed significantly. At the conference known as COP16, countries next will report ...
Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on ...
19 hours ago · The two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP16, is a follow-up to the 2022 Montreal meetings where 196 countries signed a historic global treaty to protect biodiversity.
As Commonwealth nations meet in Samoa, they see what is at …
1 day ago · As COP16 biodiversity talks begin in Colombia, research shows only 8.3% of global marine areas are protected ; Heads of 56 Commonwealth countries are meeting in Samoa, with ocean protection high ...
COP16: What is biodiversity and how are we protecting it? - Yahoo News
3 days ago · The United Nations biodiversity summit, known as COP16, comes amid growing concerns over plummeting populations of plants and animals, and damage to the habitats that sustain life on earth, from forests to rivers and oceans. At the last UN global summit on biodiversity, held in December 2022, nearly 200 countries signed up to an ambitious plan ...
Convention on Biological Diversity
COP 16 will be the first Biodiversity COP since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP 15 in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada. At COP 16, governments will be tasked with reviewing the state of implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.