Governments on Friday reached agreement on a strategy to raise an additional $200 billion each year to better protect the world’s flora and fauna by 2030.

The Cali talks followed the historic 2022 COP15 accord in Montreal, which included 23 measures aimed at protecting biodiversity. Those included putting 30% of the planet and 30% of degraded ecosystems under protection by 2030, known as the Global ...

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.

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.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault speaks to reporters at the COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal in 2022, when he led complex negotiations late into the night to reach a global deal ...

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.

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.

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 COP16 summit resumes, countries are under pressure to finalise a $200 billion nature finance deal, even as many fail to meet key biodiversity targets

Countries convened in Rome have succeeded in agreeing on a financial plan to generate $200 billion annually by 2030 to counteract biodiversity loss. The deal, a triumph of multilateralism, was spearheaded by BRICS nations,

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.