The Latest Breaking News from Cop16

Saudi Arabia is hosting the United Nations Cop16 conference on desertification this week, with the world's top oil exporter positioning itself as an environmental defender despite criticism of its role at previous climate talks.

Crunch United Nations talks to find funding to curb the destruction of nature will resume in Rome in February, the UN said on Thursday, after negotiations this month in Colombia ended without a deal.

Home to diverse ecosystems like primary forests, peatlands and mangroves, Africa nevertheless faces severe biodiversity degradation. Despite the recent Cop16 conference in Colombia offering limited progress for protecting Africa's flora and fauna, analysts hope future efforts will address the continent's environmental concerns more effectively.

Progress at the UN’s biodiversity summit, Cop16, in Cali, Colombia, has been slow. Frustratingly so.

The catastrophic floods in Valencia remind us that the fate of human beings and animals is what is truly important

Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promises

The world's biggest nature conservation conference enters its final day in Colombia Friday with negotiators at odds over how best to fund plans to "halt and reverse" species loss.

Fears raised that biodiversity summit not addressing countries’ failure to meet a single target to stem destruction of natural world

U.N. Secretary-General calls for increased global efforts to protect biodiversity at COP16 summit in Colombia, highlighting urgent conservation needs and f...