Delegates from 196 countries are discussing progress in preserving biodiversity. So what are the sticking points?
The Colombian city of Cali, which will host Cop16. Most countries have yet to lay out plans for how to deliver on 2022’s key Kunming-Montreal deal.The Colombian city of Cali, which will host Cop16. Most countries have yet to lay out plans for how to deliver on 2022’s key Kunming-Montreal deal.Every two years, leaders from around the world gather to discuss the state of life on Earth, negotiating agreements to preserve biodiversity and stop the destruction of nature.
But anger is growing in the global south about how profits are shared from these discoveries, with many countries warning they are not being paid their fair share. They liken the companies taking genetic information without acknowledging its source to “biopirates”. , something that was celebrated as a historic victory. It followed decades of exclusion and bad treatment by the conservation sector. The importance of the Indigenous role in decision-making has become a common slogan in the nature sector in recent years – but many Indigenous communities are waiting to see what it means in practice. In some communities, there is significant scepticism about what some of this decade’s nature restoration targets could mean for land rights and customs.
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