COP16

Peiying Hong, a professor in environmental science and engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (above) at a wastewater treatment plant developed by the university in the desert near Jeddah on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast in November.

Saudi Arabia bets on tech to make deserts bloom

But criticism is coming from some quarters that such green innovations mask the country’s ongoing reliance on fossil fuels

2024-12-03T09:52:41.000Z

In Cali, setting up a new nature fund was a key demand of developing countries. They see the current fund, the Global Environment Facility’s Global Biodiversity Framework Fund, as dominated by rich countries that control the purse strings.

International

UN nature summit ends in limbo as countries spar over funding

The 16th United Nations Biodiversity Conference ended abruptly on Saturday (Nov 2) as countries disagreed in overtime talks about the creation of a new global nature fund.

2024-11-03T11:57:28.000Z

Colombia's Environment Minister and president of COP16, Susana Mohamad told AFP that the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund “needs more money.”

ESG

COP16 chair hails biodiversity attaining ‘equal footing’ with climate crisis

THE world’s biggest nature protection conference, under way in Cali, has placed biodiversity loss “on an equal footing” with the climate emergency, the meeting’s Colombian president told AFP in an int...

2024-10-28T22:56:07.000Z

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