Published: February 25th, 2025,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

After a failure last year, the World Conference on Nature is going into extra time: Four months after the failure in Colombia, representatives from almost 200 countries are meeting again in Rome on Tuesday. In November, the 16th UN Conference on Biological Diversity (COP16) was unable to reach an agreement. In particular, the financing and implementation of previous resolutions remained a point of contention until the very end.