The planet is in a “critical situation”, said Susana Muhamad, COP16 president and Colombia’s environment minister.
Delegates from almost 200 countries are gathering this week in Cali, Colombia, for the biennial United Nations summit on biodiversity, the first one since the landmark Global Biodiversity Framework was signed in Montreal in December 2022.
Nature is disappearing at an alarming rate. Over the past 50 years, wildlife populations have shrunk by almost three-quarters, according to the latest research by WWF. The decline is happening so fast that the world is approaching possibly irreversible tipping points.
