Resumption of UN Biodiversity Conference COP16

Resuming UN’s Biodiversity Conference, suspended last year in Cali, Colombia, will reconvene in Rome, Italy, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

COP16 Falls Short of a Financing Mechanism for Biodiversity

Parties will seek consensus on Cali’s important unfinished business, including resource mobilization, financial mechanism, and Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) monitoring and planning.

Notably, COP16 in Colombia will be remembered for being a historic COP, for being La COP de la gente.

All the decisions taken in Cali benefit the protection of biodiversity and recognize the work of indigenous peoples and local communities, Afro-descendent communities, and campesinos as guardians and protectors of biodiversity.