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.

The resumed session of the COP16.2 UN biodiversity talks ended in Rome with an agreement on finance, a critical issue for nature.

COP16 talks in Rome yielded agreement on funding nature restoration in poorer countries — but some details remain vague.

Countries have reached an agreement on a plan to raise at least $200 billion each year by 2030 to support biodiversity conservation in developing countries.

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,

An installation is placed in front of the FAO headquarters of the United Nations as part of a Greenpeace protest during the UN Biodiversity Conference in Rome, Italy [Yara Nardi/Reuters] Published ...

Negotiators from over 140 countries have agreed on a plan to finance biodiversity conservation, raising at least $200 billion annually by 2030. The agreement, reached in Rome, also pledges to create an international dialogue of ministers to expedite funding.

Hours ahead of resuming the three-day UN global biodiversity negotiations in Rome, the European Union (EU) on Monday said it is working towards an agreement on pending decisions at COP16 on biodiversity.