Ministers Must Act Urgently to Ensure Upcoming Biodiversity Negotiations Succeed

Joint Statement

11 February, 2025

In October 2024, countries from around the world convened in Cali, Colombia, at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The negotiations were intended to boost the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (K-M GBF), the historic plan for safeguarding nature that all countries agreed to in 2022. The meeting in Cali delivered some notable successes; however, the COP was adjourned with the resource mobilization strategy left unresolved.

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