Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: The U.N. Biodiversity Summit - also known as COP 16 - is being held in Colombia this month. Nearly 200 countries will be ...

Governments of 196 countries have been meeting at the UN COP16 biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia, for two weeks. This is the first time they have come together to evaluate whether enough ...

COP16 president and Colombia’s Minister of Environment Susana Muhamad will lead COP16 in Cali, Colombia, beginning on October 21, 2004. The focus is on preserving biodiversity, wildlife, and nature.

COP16 occurs two years after the country’s first-ever left-wing president was sworn in, pledging to turn Colombia into “a leader in the protection of life,” as his four-year plan centers on energy ...

The COP16, the largest United Nations summit for the protection of nature, concluded its first day on Monday in Colombia with urgent calls to invest resources and reach concrete agreements to stop the ...

The United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC), with support from the Climate Security Mechanism, convened a high-level side event during the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference, also known ...

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity summit (COP16) took place in Cali, Colombia, from Oct. 21 to Nov. 2. Several oceans-related decisions, as well as the formal inclusion of ...

Colombia opens the COP16 biodiversity summit on Monday, an event that has been threatened by armed guerrillas who control swaths of the country’s Amazon rainforest. The conference comes as new figures ...

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 ...

Two years ago, nearly every country on Earth signed on to a landmark agreement to protect the fast-eroding natural world. It was celebrated as the "Paris moment" for the world's threatened and ...

Governments that committed two years ago to a historic agreement to protect nature and biodiversity now will try to figure out how to actually carry that out. Government officials, companies and ...

Colombian Environment Minister and COP16 President, Susana Muhamad, attends the last plenary session of the COP16 Summit in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP) The COP16 biodiversity ...