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President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announces the city of Cali as the host for the United Nations Biodiversity COP16.. The UNCBD COP16 was originally set to be held in Turkey; [5] however, on July 31, 2023, the conference's organizing committee notified Parties that the country had decided to give up its right to host and preside the event, due to "a force majeure situation" caused by the ...
Global destruction of nature has reached unprecedented extremes. As the United Nations two-week COP16 biodiversity summit kicks off on Monday in Cali, Colombia, here is what you need to know about ...
The South American nation later this month will host the U.N. COP16 biodiversity summit aimed at halting the rapid destruction of nature, with Muhamad serving as the conference's president.
During this month's U.N. Biodiversity Summit, known as COP16, in the Colombian city of Cali, nearly 200 countries will be debating how they can save nature from the current rapid rate of destruction.
The Convention's Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, created in 2010, include the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The meetings of the Parties to the Convention are known as Conferences of the Parties (COP), with the first one (COP 1) held in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1994 and the most recent one (COP 16) in 2024 in Cali, Colombia. [2]
Also in 2022, Turkey's Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum declared Turkey's candidacy to host COP 31. [102] In August 2023, Turkey withdrew from hosting the United Nations' COP 16 biodiversity summit in 2024. [103] However its COP31 bid was reconfirmed later in 2023. [104]
Here are answers to key questions about the Cop16 conference on biodiversity.
The Nexus Assessment is a landmark new report by IPBES that came out on 17 December 2024. It looks at how biodiversity, water, food and health are all connected, and it's the most ambitious scientific assessment of these links ever done.