Nov 3, 2024 · The world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16, concluded this weekend in Colombia, with several landmark decisions, including first ever agreements on nature’s genetic data...

Dec 13, 2024 · The sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2 to 13 December 2024.

The 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was a conference that was held from October 21 to November 1, 2024, in Cali, Colombia.

Nov 5, 2024 · The race to protect Earth’s biodiversity was front and center as representatives from countries around the world gathered in Colombia for the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP16. See what was accomplished.

6 days ago · COP16’s successful conclusion is the first United Nations meeting in many months which ended on a positive note, as various meetings all through last year related to dealing with the global plastic pollution, climate change and the earlier biodiversity meeting itself failed to reach agreements or left many stakeholders disappointed with the ...

The Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) will be held in Cali, Colombia from 21 October–1 November 2024. The agenda of the meetings of the Conference of the Parties is very wide-ranging, reflecting the programme of work the Conference of the Parties has established for itself.

Oct 21, 2024 · Delegates at COP16, formally the 16th Conference of Parties to the UN Biodiversity Convention, will discuss how to restore rapidly degrading lands and seas in a way that protects...

Feb 25, 2025 · The talks in Colombia known as COP16 yielded some significant outcomes before they broke up in November, including an agreement that requires companies that benefit from genetic resources in nature — say, by developing medicines from rainforest plants — to share the benefits. And steps were taken to give Indigenous peoples and local ...

Nov 2, 2024 · COP16 was the first biodiversity summit since nations signed a landmark agreement in late 2022 called the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which aims to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. It is often …

COP16 is a pivotal UN conference taking place in Riyadh to address the urgent global crises of land degradation, drought and desertification. Be part of the solution.