With some 23,000 pre-registered delegates representing almost every country on Earth, today's ceremonial opening of the 16th Conference of the Parties under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD ...

Members of indigenous communities from different countries react after a subsidiary body representing them in the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at COP16 Summit in Cali, Colombia.

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Delegates from around the world are meeting in Colombia in what is expected to be the biggest U.N. biodiversity conference in history. By Catrin Einhorn On the agenda is life on earth, in all its ...

Two years after a landmark UN-brokered deal to protect nature from a massive wave of destruction, delegates will gather at a new COP in Colombia in late October to assess their progress.

Delegates at the U.N. talks created a system that would compensate countries for the use of genetic information but failed to make headway on a broader funding commitment. By Catrin Einhorn Reporting ...

At a time of unprecedented biodiversity loss, TRAFFIC is scaling up evidence, solutions and influence to ensure that trade in wild species is legal and sustainable, for the benefit of people and the ...

The EcoAction Committee presented a webinar on February 10 about Biodiversity COP 16. What can we expect to come out of it? How are activists influencing decision makers around the world to protect ...