IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis
Countries Resume Crucial Biodiversity Discussions in Rome, 25-27 February 2025
The focus will be on addressing the agenda items that remained pending after the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity held in Cali, Colombia was suspended on 2 November 2024 for lack of quorum.
The resumed sessions of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol and fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol, opened on 25 February 2025 at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy.
- Statement by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Statement by H.E. Ms. Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia and COP 16 President
- Statement by Astrid Schomaker Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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Resumed Session of COP 16 (main page)
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