2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference
COP 16
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| 2025 | Some countries, including the United Kingdom, Brazil, and India, indicated they would not publish their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) before this year. |
| February 28 2025 | Participating countries reached an agreement on a roadmap to provide US$200 billion annually for conservation targets by 2030, with initial commitment to raise US$20 billion in annual conservation financing by 2025. |
| February 27 2025 | Participating nations agree on a roadmap to provide US$200 billion annually to developing countries for conservation targets by 2030. |
| February 25 2025 | An extended session of COP16 is held in Rome, Italy, to address unresolved negotiations from the previous conference. |
| February 9 2025 | Susana Muhamad resigned from her role as Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, though she continued to participate in the conference as its president. |
| 2024 | United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) was set to take place, with key objectives including reviewing progress towards the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets. |
| November 2 2024 | The 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference closed without a complete agreement on funding for species protection, with negotiations running nearly twelve hours longer than planned and delegates leaving before a quorum could be established. |
| November 1 2024 | The initial session of the UN Biodiversity Conference concludes in Cali, Colombia, with discussions on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. |
| October 21 2024 | The 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) begins in Cali, Colombia, focusing on global biodiversity conservation efforts. |
| September 2024 | Global Witness released an annual report documenting the violence against environmental activists, revealing 196 environmentalists were murdered worldwide in 2023. Colombia had the highest number of killings at 79, followed by Brazil with 25, and Mexico and Honduras with 18 each. |
| July 30 2024 | EMC leader Néstor Gregorio (Iván Mordisco) announced that EMC units would not interfere with COP16 events 'as a gesture of [their] will for peace'. |
| July 16 2024 | EMC representatives threatened on X (formerly Twitter) that COP16 would 'fail even if [Cali] was militarized with (US) gringos', directed at President Gustavo Petro. |
| March 2024 | Ceasefire between Colombian government and Estado Mayor Central (EMC) guerrilla faction was terminated due to ongoing violence in several departments. |
| February 28 2024 | The official logo for COP16 was presented by Colombian Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development Susana Muhamad and UNCBD interim executive secretary David Cooper during the Sixth UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. The logo, designed by Vanessa María Vergara Domínguez, featured an Inírida flower with 36 petals symbolizing biodiversity framework targets and Colombian ecoregions. |
| February 20 2024 | Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced Cali as the host city for COP16, chosen after a month-long competition with Bogotá. Petro highlighted Valle del Cauca's biodiversity and the potential for healing social wounds from the 2021 nationwide protests. |
| December 11 2023 | Colombian Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhamad, officially announced Colombia's offer to host the COP16, scheduled for 21 October to 1 November 2024. |
| July 31 2023 | The UNCBD conference organizing committee was notified that Turkey would no longer host COP16, withdrawing its right to host and preside over the event due to nationwide earthquake impacts from February. |
| December 2022 | Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was approved, setting 23 general targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. |
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