As the meeting concluded late Thursday in Rome, participants stood up and applauded the outcomes. “The applause is for all of you. You have done an amazing job,” said the COP16 president, Susana Muhamad of Colombia. COP16’s successful conclusion is ...

A make-or-break second meeting of COP16 delegates finally ended with a landmark agreement in the early hours of Friday morning. View on euronews

After last year’s COP16 reached an impasse, negotiators will make a second attempt to agree on funding to halt the global loss of biodiversity.

Global food commodity prices rose in February, driven by higher sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said on Friday.

Annual conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year resumes in Rome with nations sparring over money.

ROME — Global talks to protect nature restarted on Tuesday with a call for humanity to come together to "sustain life on the planet" and overcome the deep divisions that caused a previous meeting last year to end in disarray.

Indigenous peoples have been on a “path to unprecedented progress” after the first talks in Cali adopted a new program of work on traditional knowledge and their direct participation in negotiations,