The UN Conference on Biological Diversity (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, ended in early November with important resolutions, but no agreement on the key issue of financing biodiversity conservation.

Amid fights over conservation funding, an agreement is reached for businesses to pay for profiting from digital genetic ...

Negotiations fell apart at the 11th hour when the EU, Switzerland and other developed countries objected to the creation of a ...

The nature conservation organisations Birdlife, Pro Natura and WWF have criticised the lack of measures and indicators for biodiversity in Switzerland. They say there is a lack of guidance as to ...

The 16th UN biodiversity conference being held in Colombia ... Establishing the fund was a key demand of developing countries ...

While significant progress was made on the issues of genetic resources and indigenous peoples, negotiations failed to reach ...

Home to diverse ecosystems like primary forests, peatlands and mangroves, Africa nevertheless faces severe biodiversity ...

The announcement came early on the morning of Oct. 31. Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity summit (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, had finally agreed on a protocol for ...

As the two-week negotiations at the United Nations biodiversity summit known as COP16 in the Colombian city of Cali have ...

In the end, Switzerland relented. The eleventh-hour agreement ... body for indigenous peoples and local communities to ensure their participation in the biodiversity framework agreed on in 2022 in ...

Home to diverse ecosystems like primary forests, peatlands and mangroves, Africa nevertheless faces severe biodiversity degradation. Despite the recent Cop16 conference in Colombia offering limited ...

With declines in their biodiversity, the food supply for birds ... observations of about 7,600 insect and spider species in Switzerland. The approximately 400 aquatic ecosystems and 300 ...