COP16 ended with an agreement in Rome, where a second round of negotiations was held after the failure in Cali (see EUROPE B13517A15).
The agreement proves that multilateralism still “works”, “despite a fragmented geopolitical landscape”, declared the European Commissioner for the Environment, Jessika Roswall, on Friday 28 February.
A first global stocktake of progress in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework – adopted at COP15 in Montreal in 2022 –...