Biodiversity COP 16: Important Agreement Reached Towards Goal of “Making Peace with Nature”

CALI, Colombia 2 November 2024  — The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) was suspended  in the morning of Nov. 2 but not before countries agreed on an expanded role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in saving biodiversity and a groundbreaking agreement on the operationalization of a new global mechanism to share benefits from digital genetic information.

The strong results, built on a spirit of compromise, and dialogue, demonstrate that multilateralism can still achieve results in a fractious time.