COP16, that is, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, will be held at the end of October in the hot, tropical city of Cali, Colombia.

The South American nation later this month will host the U.N. COP16 biodiversity summit aimed at halting the rapid destruction of nature, with Muhamad serving as the conference's president.

"We expect Colombia to take leadership at COP16, setting an example and driving ambition in terms of biodiversity for the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework," she said, referring ...

Colombia wants to write a unified climate and biodiversity ... The South American nation later this month will host the U.N. COP16 biodiversity summit aimed at halting the rapid destruction of ...

Demonstration against the murder of environmental activists at COP16, Cali, Colombia, October 31, 2024. LUIS ACOSTA / AFP. Activists from indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant communities are ...

These poor nations are rich in nature. They need help protecting it. Nations will debate how to save species from extinction at a major U.N. biodiversity summit called COP16 in Colombia.

Reuters. Colombia's Environment Minister Susana Muhamad and other participants attend the opening plenary of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Yumbo, Colombia October 21, 2024.

Nearly 200 countries gather at COP16 to discuss meeting 2022 treaty pledges. Environmental leaders convene in Cali, Colombia, to debate how to save nature from current rate of destruction and live ...

Colombia's war with rebel groups is not over, with some dissident factions continuing to reject the peace deal signed with FARC. In July, the EMC faction issued a threat to the COP16 meeting ...

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 ...

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Colombia's war with rebel groups is not over, with some dissident factions continuing to reject the peace deal signed with FARC. In July, the EMC faction issued a threat to the COP16 meeting ...