As Colombia hosts a UN biodiversity summit, its own Amazonian rainforest is in crisis
The city of Cali, in Colombia, is hosting the UN’s 16th biodiversity summit, known as Cop16. The summit, which runs until Friday, November 1, is focused on how countries will fulfil previous pledges to protect at least 30% of the world’s land and water and restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030.
Explainer-What's on the Agenda at the COP16 Nature Summit in Colombia?
Countries are expected to submit those national biodiversity plans, known as NBSAPs, by the start of the Cali summit that runs from Oct. 21 to Nov. 1. Delegates will use the submissions to gauge how much progress has been made since the COP15 summit in 2022 and what needs to be prioritized going forward.
If the entirety of Brazil’s blue carbon stock from mangroves were converted into tradeable tonnes of carbon, its value would total billions, as per an NGO study launched Thursday at COP16 in Cali, ...
COP16 host country Colombia has put the inclusion of Indigenous and traditional communities at the center of its agenda in ...
Peñuela, assistant professor of environmental studies, and a team of Colombian researchers have introduced a transformative ...
The tribal leaders at the two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference, known as COP16, are prodding Biden to establish ...
Thousands of miners and small-scale farmers protested Tuesday in Colombia against plans by the government, currently hosting ...
This week in Colombia, nearly 200 countries are gathered for COP16 to discuss ways of conserving biodiversity on the planet. The slogan of the COP16 is “Peace with Nature,” but the impact of ...
COP16 in Colombia is currently the largest summit of its kind in history, according to The New York Times, Le Monde and The ...
Two years earlier, countries adopted the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement with a list of 23 ...
Countries and companies meeting in Cali face tough questions over funding for biodiversity, indigenous rights and who pays ...
Traditionally overshadowed by the longer-running annual U.N. conference on climate change, the 16th edition of the ...
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