Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16)
21 October–1 November 2024 - Cali, Colombia
The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity was suspended in the morning of 2 November but not before countries agreed on an expanded role of indigenous peoples and local communities in protecting biodiversity and on the groundbreaking operationalization of a new global mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital genetic information.
Resumed Session of COP 16
27 February 2025 - Rome, Italy
UN CBD COP 16 reconvened at UN Food and Agriculture Organization Headquarters in Rome, Italy from 25 - 27 February 2025. Parties will sought consensus on Cali’s important unfinished business, including resource mobilization, financial mechanism, and KMGBF monitoring and planning.
Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity worked into the early morning hours to hammer out agreements on biodiversity finance, on planning, monitoring, reporting and review, and the full set of indicators to measure global and national progress towards implementing the KMGBF, agreed in Montreal at COP 15 in 2022.
Governments agreed, on 27 February 2025, on the strategy to raise the funds needed to protect biodiversity and achieve the action targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), bringing the business of the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP16 that was suspended in Cali, Colombia in 2024, to a successful close.
 “These days of work in Rome have demonstrated the commitment of the Parties to advance the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework. The COP 16 presidency recognises the collective effort to reach consensus of key issues that were left pending in Cali. We appreciate the willingness of all countries and the Secretariat of the Convention for their dedication to continue strengthening the global biodiversity agenda. Only by working together can we make Peace with Nature a reality.” H.E. Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia, COP 16 President
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– Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention of Biological Diversity |
“The results of this meeting show that multilateralism works and is the vehicle to build the partnerships needed to protect biodiversity and move us towards Peace with Nature. We now have a clear mandate to implement Article 21 and 39. As we do this and implement the other supporting elements for resource mobilization, the world will have given itself the means to close the biodiversity finance gap.”
