Countries agreed on a $200 billion annual finance plan by 2030 to combat biodiversity loss. After initial failed talks in Colombia, the breakthrough in Rome was hailed as a victory for nature and diplomacy.

By Justin Catanoso Delegates and observers applauded, with caveats, the delayed conclusion of the 16 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP16, in Rome on Feb. 28. The big takeaway was an agreement by the world’s nations to a multiprong pathway to raising $200 billion annually by 2030 to help reverse the rate of global species

Some of the world’s leading scientific infrastructures, institutions and experts relating to biodiversity information are uniting around a new 10-year roadmap to ‘liberate’ data presently trapped in research publications.

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda

Without the farmers, it is only political policy without implementation”―that was the stark message delivered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

The resumed session of the COP16.2 UN biodiversity talks ended in Rome with an agreement on finance, a critical issue for nature.

After intense negotiations, Parties to the Convention agreed on a way forward in terms of resource mobilization with a view to close the global biodiversity finance gap and achieve the target of mobilizing at least 200 billion dollars a year by 2030, including 20 billion USD a year in international flows by 2025, rising to 30 billion USD by 2030.

Without the farmers, it is only political policy without implementation” – that was the stark message delivered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Director-General on Tuesday to delegates attending the latest round of UN biodiversity talks in Rome.

Countries have reached an agreement on a plan to raise at least $200 billion each year by 2030 to support biodiversity conservation in developing countries.

Speech by UNEP Deputy Executive Director Elizabeth Maruma Mrema on the Signing of Cali Fund MoU on the sidelines of the resumed session of the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference

As the host country for COP15 in 2022, Canada played a key role in leading the world to the adoption of the Kunming–Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework. This historic international agreement with over 190 countries aims to safeguard nature and halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, putting nature on a path to recovery by 2050.