COP16 in Cali: UN biodiversity summit opens with call for ‘significant’ funding

The world’s biggest nature protection conference opens in Colombia Monday with the United Nations chief calling for countries to “convert words into action” and fatten a fund seeking to address biodiversity loss. On the eve of the official start of the conference, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged “significant investment” in the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund created last year, as well as “commitments to mobilise other sources of public and private finance.”