By Justin Catanoso Indigenous peoples and local communities scored perhaps the most tangible progress as the 16 United Nations, or COP16 concluded after three days of final negotiations in Rome on Feb.

As the meeting concluded late Thursday in Rome, participants stood up and applauded the outcomes. “The applause is for all of you. You have done an amazing job,” said the COP16 president, Susana Muhamad of Colombia. COP16’s successful conclusion is ...

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Indigenous peoples have been on a “path to unprecedented progress” after the first talks in Cali adopted a new program of work on traditional knowledge and their direct participation in negotiations,

After last year’s COP16 reached an impasse, negotiators will make a second attempt to agree on funding to halt the global loss of biodiversity.

TORVAIANICA, Italy (AP) — Moira Camila Garnica and a group of fellow migrant transgender women have been gathering at their parish church to pray for Pope Francis as he continues to battle pneumonia in a Rome hospital, about an hour away from this modest seaside town.

A gathering of countries in Rome this week agreed a plan to generate $200 billion in finance a year by 2030 to halt and begin to reverse the destruction of the natural world.

The world's biggest nature conservation conference resumed in Rome today, Tuesday, in a bid to overcome a deadlock between northern and southern countries over funding. Negotiations collapsed last year,

Susana Muhamad, Colombia's former environment minister and the COP16 president, said she's hopeful of “a good message from Rome.” “That message is that still, even with a very fragmented ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year, resumed its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to spend ...