More than 140 countries struck a deal on a strategy to raise and distribute billions of dollars to protect nature at a UN biodiversity summit that provided a “light of hope” amid rising geopolitical tensions and cuts to climate and science programmes by the US.

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

This analysis was conceived by its author as a trilogy of commentaries in the wake of Decision 16/2 from the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).  Although each commentary can be read separately,

COP16 talks in Rome yielded agreement on funding nature restoration in poorer countries — but some details remain vague.

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

An installation is placed in front of the FAO headquarters of the United Nations as part of a Greenpeace protest during the UN Biodiversity Conference in Rome, Italy [Yara Nardi/Reuters] Published ...

A new round of negotiations for an international treaty on reducing global plastics pollution will be held in Geneva in August, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said Monday. A previous round of negotiations — tasked with hammering out a legally binding treaty — ended without agreement in South Korea last year.

Hours ahead of resuming the three-day UN global biodiversity negotiations in Rome, the European Union (EU) on Monday said it is working towards an agreement on pending decisions at COP16 on biodiversity.