The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP16, ended on Nov. 2. Several days before delegations from 177 ...

Regarding the equitable sharing of benefits from the use of genetic resource sequencing (DSI), corporations and companies using these resources agreed to make voluntary contributions to a global fund ...

The international UN conference on biodiversity attempts to achieve key agreements, and fulfill prior ones ANALYSIS | ...

As the UN COP16 on biodiversity meets in Calì, Colombia, experts from McGill University are on-site, providing important input into the global conversation. These experts have been instrumental in ...

Home to diverse ecosystems like primary forests, peatlands and mangroves, Africa nevertheless faces severe biodiversity ...

Colombia, one of the most biodiverse countries, is hosting the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, COP16, in Cali this year. We begin in the Llanos, a vast tropical grassland east of the ...

Nature is being pushed to the brink as logging, mining and the relentless burning of fossil fuels destroy ecosystems — but even while acknowledging the problem, countries negotiating at COP16 still ...

From protecting genetic data to failing to make action plans to conserve biodiversity, COP16 has been a mixed bag of successes and pitfalls ...

Nearly 200 countries endorsed the creation of a new global advisory body to include indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and ...

Biodiversity loss is an expensive problem, but some interventions don't have to be costly for consumers and society ...

If we’re serious about saving biodiversity, money flows will have to make their way to the remotest bits of developing nations ...

At the United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia, negotiators struggle to find common ground on key issues, such as how ...