2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference

United Nations Biodiversity Conference
COP16
COP16 logo depicting an Inírida flower
Date21 October - 1 November 2024
MottoPaz con la Naturaleza (Peace with Nature)
CitiesCali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
ParticipantsConvention on Biological Diversity member countries
Follows← Kunming/Montreal 2022
Precedes→ Armenia 2026
Websitehttps://www.cbd.int/conferences/2024

The 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was a conference that was held from October 21 to November 1, 2024 in Cali, Colombia.[1][2] The monitoring framework agreed at the previous conference should allow the progress of the countries towards national goals and targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to be evaluated.[3][4]

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  2. ^ Greenfield, Patrick (October 21, 2024). "Cop16 at a glance: the big issues that will define talks at Colombia's UN summit". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
  3. ^ Mouterde, Perrine (December 19, 2022). "Historic biodiversity agreement reached at Montreal COP15". Le Monde. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  4. ^ "Expert reaction to global biodiversity agreement reached at UN Biodiversity Conference COP15". Science Media Centre. Retrieved December 20, 2022.