#COP16

News Desk New York:  Around 3 billion people globally are facing the impacts of land degradation, a situation that will exacerbate migration, instability, and insecurity in many communities, said Abdulrahman Alfadley, the newly-elected…

AFP/APP Cali, Colombia: The 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) concluded in Colombia on Saturday without reaching an agreement on crucial funding for biodiversity conservation.  The…

AFP/APP Cali, Colombia: European officials on Thursday pointed to deadly flooding in Spain as a stark reminder of the dangers posed by human-driven destruction of nature. Delegates at a stalled UN biodiversity conference in Colombia were…

AFP/APP Cali, Colombia: The world’s largest nature protection conference, COP16 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, is underway, with a renewed emphasis on biodiversity loss being treated with the same urgency as the climate…

AFP/APP Paris: Global warming, disappearing plant and animal species, fertile land turning to desert, and plastic in the oceans, on land, and in the air we breathe—these urgent environmental challenges will be in the spotlight over the…

AFP/APP Bogotá: Colombian guerrillas fighting the government and rival armed groups on Tuesday threatened a major UN biodiversity summit to be held later this year in Cali, the city closest to territory they dominate. The 16th meeting…

News Desk  United Nations: As nearly 40 per cent of land across the planet is degraded with more acres lost every second, governments, businesses and communities must galvanize action to reverse the damage and protect Earth, the UN…