Colombian special forces stand guard at Farallones de Cali National Natural Park on the outskirts of Cali on July 6, 2024, during security operations ahead of the ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Colombia wants to write a unified climate and biodiversity pledge, seeking to combine efforts to protect nature with those to tackle climate change in United Nations talks, ...

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity summit (COP16) took place in Cali, Colombia, from Oct. 21 to Nov. 2. Several oceans-related decisions, as well as the formal inclusion of ...

COP16 occurs two years after the country’s first-ever left-wing president was sworn in, pledging to turn Colombia into “a leader in the protection of life,” as his four-year plan centers on energy ...

The United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC), with support from the Climate Security Mechanism, convened a high-level side event during the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference, also known ...

Colombian Environment Minister and COP16 President, Susana Muhamad, attends the last plenary session of the COP16 Summit in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP) The COP16 biodiversity ...

CALI, Colombia (2 November 2024) – Early this morning, 196 countries at the COP16 UN biodiversity conference in Colombia agreed to establish a new global fund dedicated to sharing the benefits derived ...

A police officer patrols in Jamundi - Copyright US State Department/AFP/File Handout Weary of gunfire and bombs, Ana Munoz recently closed her shop in a hamlet near ...

The COP16, the largest United Nations summit for the protection of nature, concluded its first day on Monday in Colombia with urgent calls to invest resources and reach concrete agreements to stop the ...

STORY: The U.N. Biodiversity Summit - also known as COP 16 - is being held in Colombia this month. Nearly 200 countries will be debating how to save nature from the current rapid rate of destruction.

Governments that committed two years ago to a historic agreement to protect nature and biodiversity now will try to figure out how to actually carry that out. Government officials, companies and ...

As one of the world's most biodiverse countries, Colombia is determined to lead by example when it hosts an upcoming UN summit to save nature, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told AFP on Monday.