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The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other

Climate change and biodiversity policies have largely evolved in isolation, even though the two crises are deeply intertwined. They have their own UN summits, with the same name and numbering system: the UN biodiversity summit Cop16 just concluded in Colombia, while the climate summit Cop29 is happening right now in…

The Conversation

Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16

Questions raised over influence after 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for biodiversity summit in Colombia

The Guardian - UK

Global biodiversity offsetting doesn’t work – keep schemes local, say experts

Voluntary standards proposed at Cop16 focus on local like-for-like habitat projects, while critics call the issue a ‘distraction’

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With little progress at Cop16 biodiversity summit, Africa demands more action

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 progress for protecting Africa's flora and fauna, analysts hope future efforts will address the continent's environmental concerns more effectively.

Radio France Internationale

Cop16: the world’s largest meeting to save nature has ended with no clear path ahead

Progress at the UN’s biodiversity summit, Cop16, in Cali, Colombia, has been slow. Frustratingly so.

The Conversation

We are in danger of forgetting what the climate crisis means: extinction

The catastrophic floods in Valencia remind us that the fate of human beings and animals is what is truly important

The Guardian - UK

Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs

Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promises

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Summit to save nature enters final day with disagreement on funding

The world's biggest nature conservation conference enters its final day in Colombia Friday with negotiators at odds over how best to fund plans to "halt and reverse" species loss.

Radio France Internationale

Alarm grows over ‘disturbing’ lack of progress to save nature at Cop16

Fears raised that biodiversity summit not addressing countries’ failure to meet a single target to stem destruction of natural world

The Guardian - UK

UN Urges Global Action To Save Biodiversity

U.N. Secretary-General calls for increased global efforts to protect biodiversity at COP16 summit in Colombia, highlighting urgent conservation needs and f...

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‘Noah’s arks’ for fruit trees: How conservation orchards preserve and boost biodiversity

The COP16 biodiversity conference opened on October 21, 2024. The UN conference is an opportunity to highlight that biodiversity is crucial for ensuring a sustainable food system. However, it is directly threatened by climate change and its side effects, such as the emergence of parasites. These disruptions, which reduce crop…

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The world needs $700bn a year to restore nature. But where is the money coming from?

Representatives from nearly 200 countries at the UN’s Cop16 summit in Colombia have yet to break the deadlock over who pays and how much

The Guardian - UK

Sex swings, dance poles and mirrored ceilings: ‘love motels’ provide last-minute rooms for Cop16 delegates

Thousands more people than expected are at the biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, and hotels are full – leading the city’s council to press less orthodox accommodation into service

The Guardian - UK

England ‘seen as world leading on nature-friendly farming at Cop16’

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering a £100 million cut to funding for nature-friendly farming in Wednesday’s Budget.

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COP16: Can Colombia Lead The Global Fight Against Climate Change?

The country's efforts to become a leader in the area are being undermined by armed groups operating in the country

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Scotland is 'critical' to achieving goal of 'restoring biodiversity globally'

SCOTLAND is “critical to achieving the goal” of “restoring biodiversity globally” says NatureScot, as the COP16 summit gets under way ...

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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…

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Biodiversity declining even faster in ‘protected’ areas, scientists warn Cop16

Just designating key areas will not meet 30x30 target on nature loss, study says, pointing to oil drilling in parks

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How finance can be part of the solution to the world’s biodiversity crisis

More than half of the world’s total GDP is at least moderately dependent on nature. Yet arguably, there is no economy (or life) without nature. A quarter of animal and planet species are now threatened, and 14 out of 18 key ecosystem services – including fertile soils to grow food,…

Radio France Internationale

Cote d'Ivoire has lost 'nearly 80 percent of its forest and wildlife cover'

How can we protect wild animals when the world's forest cover continues to shrink? This is just one of the many issues under discussion at the Cop16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia. In West Africa, certain emblematic species such as the elephant are at risk of extinction. The head of…

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New report reveals that targets to save 30% of the ocean by 2030 aren’t being met

The world is gathering in Colombia for the UN biodiversity conference known as Cop16, a biannual pulse-taking of the living planet where actions to protect the natural world are agreed. At its last meeting in 2022, an ambitious roadmap for nature protection was put in place. As part of that…

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Global Leaders Meet In Colombia To Address Biodiversity Crisis

COP16 in Cali addresses global biodiversity decline, emphasizing Indigenous roles and urgent action for conservation.

The Guardian - UK

Cop16 at a glance: the big issues that will define talks at Colombia’s UN summit

Delegates from 196 countries are discussing progress in preserving biodiversity. So what are the sticking points?

Radio France Internationale

Ecosystems hang in the balance as Colombia hosts crucial biodiversity talks

With a million species on the brink of extinction and 70 percent of global ecosystems degraded, the Cop16 biodiversity summit opens in Colombia on Monday as the window to prevent devastating losses is closing.

The Guardian - UK

Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning

As the Cop16 biodiversity conference begins, scientists and academics say human activity has pushed the world into a danger zone

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