What happened at the UN Biodiversity Summit in Rome, and what comes next?

What happened at the UN Biodiversity Summit in Rome, and what comes next?

Countries gathered in Rome in late February to finalize key decisions left unresolved after last year’s COP16 summit in Colombia. In Italy, negotiators agreed to the first global deal for finance conservation, which aims to achieve the landmark goal of protecting and restoring 30% of the world’s land and seas by 2030. Eurasia Group’s María José Valverde interviewed Adrian Gahan, the ocean lead for Campaign for Nature, a global campaign founded i…

The global biodiversity summit in Rome was a moment for optimism

This post is by Ruth Davis, the UK’s special representative for nature. Against a backdrop of increasing global uncertainly and financial pressure, and with the impacts of climate change and nature loss being felt around the world, there has never been a more important time for international co-operation on the environment. The natural world is…