United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.

Without the farmers, it is only political policy without implementation” – that was the stark message delivered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Director-General on Tuesday to delegates attending the latest round of UN biodiversity talks in Rome.

As the COP16 biodiversity negotiations resume in Italy on Tuesday, scientists are expressing their amazement at the setbacks affecting nature conservation, but are trying to fight back with what they have.

This analysis was conceived by its author as a trilogy of commentaries in the wake of Decision 16/2 from the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).  Although each commentary can be read separately,

National representatives are this week meeting in Italy in a bid to agree on how best to scale annual global nature finance flows to $200bn by 2030, after talks in Colombia failed last year.

Without the farmers, it is only political policy without implementation" - that was the stark message delivered by the UN Food and Agriculture

WWF warns that if countries heading to Rome for the resumed UN biodiversity conference (COP16.2) cannot agree on a way forward on finance, it will be a major setback for the Global Biodiversity Framework, with critical fundraising efforts hampered to implement the targets – just five years away from the deadline.

Speech by UNEP Deputy Executive Director Elizabeth Maruma Mrema on the Signing of Cali Fund MoU on the sidelines of the resumed session of the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference