Global talks to halt the loss of nature will reopen today in Rome, amid “loss of trust” in the United Nations-led process and concerns that countries will not turn up for the meeting.
After last year’s Cop16 biodiversity talks in Cali left key issues unresolved, the extra summit will attempt to seek consensus, especially over funding.
Delegates are due to meet at Cop16, the UN’s biodiversity conference, to discuss global targets to stop nature loss by 2030.
The question of money – where it is coming from and how much – will dominate the three days of talks in the Italian capital as delegates thrash out the thorniest part of the UN Cop16 biodiversity agreement.
A lack of confirmed attenders in the months leading up to the conference has raised concerns about whether the meeting would reach the necessary quorum – of about two-thirds of countries attending – to make any of its decisions valid.
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