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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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.

As the resumed UN biodiversity conference (COP16.2) in Rome drew to a close tonight, WWF applauds the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as the COP16 Presidency, for delivering a hard-fought resolution this week on biodiversity finance.