Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds needed and the institutions through which the funds will be channeled to protect the world’s biodiversity.

A make-or-break second meeting of COP16 delegates finally ended with a landmark agreement in the early hours of Friday morning. View on euronews

After last year’s COP16 reached an impasse, negotiators will make a second attempt to agree on funding to halt the global loss of biodiversity.

Rich and developing countries agreed on Thursday a hard-fought nature funding plan to protect the planet's ecoystems and wildlife at tense UN talks in Rome. The plan comes a year after a fruitless

ROME — Global talks to protect nature restarted on Tuesday with a call for humanity to come together to "sustain life on the planet" and overcome the deep divisions that caused a previous meeting last year to end in disarray.