Leaders urge world to pay up to save nature as COP16 talks open

Reuters - 22/10
Two years earlier, countries adopted the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement with a list of 23 goals. COP16 is tasked with figuring out how to implement that agreement.
CALI, Colombia, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The nearly 200 countries meeting in Colombia for the United Nations COP16 summit must act urgently to mobilize billions of dollars to stop rapid nature destruction, U.N. leaders and national representatives urged as the talks opened on Monday.
"The planet doesn't have time to lose," COP16 President Susana Muhamad told the opening meeting in Cali, southwest of Bogota.
"We all agree that we are underfunded for this mission," said Muhamad, who is also Colombia's environment minister.
Two years earlier, countries adopted the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement with a list of 23 goals to help halt nature loss by 2030. COP16 is tasked with figuring out how to implement that agreement, which included finding $200 billi...
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