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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Steven Grattan

Delegates agree to establish Indigenous subsidiary body at COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia

Colombia Biodiversity Conference - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks and decisions on nature conservation.

The COP16 summit hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 accord in Montreal, which includes 23 measures to save Earth’s plant and animal life, including putting 30% of the planet and 30% of degraded ecosystems under protection by 2030.

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