Crucial UN nature talks are about to reopen in Rome – but will enough countries turn up?

Greenpeace protesters completing a giant puzzle during the Cop16 summit last October. No deal was reached in Cali on funding global nature targets. Photograph: J Sarmiento/AFP/Getty

Global talks to halt the loss of nature will reopen today in Rome, amid “loss of trust” in the United Nations-led process and concerns that countries will not turn up for the meeting. Delegates are due to meet at Cop16, the UN’s biodiversity conference, to discuss global targets to stop nature loss by 2030.

The additional meeting in Rome was called after talks were suspended in confusion in the Colombian city of Cali in November when they overran and delegates left to catch flights home.