Nations were locked in last-ditch efforts to break deadlock on funding for nature at UN talks in Rome Thursday, in what several countries framed as a test for international cooperation

An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to spend what's been pledged so far — and how to raise a lot more to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth.

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.

COP16 talks in Rome yielded agreement on funding nature restoration in poorer countries — but some details remain vague.

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.

Annual conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year resumes in Rome with nations sparring over money.

The world's nations have agreed a funding plan at UN talks in Rome for reversing the decline of nature. Countries were eventually able to overcome deep divisions which had led to the breakdown of negotiations last year in Colombia.

The resumed session of the COP16.2 UN biodiversity talks ended in Rome with an agreement on finance, a critical issue for nature.

The resumed UN biodiversity summit, COP16, came to an end last week in Rome, with headline decisions on finance and implementation in what observers called a “win for multilateralism”. The talks, which started in October, had to be carried forward to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters following their abrupt end in Cali, Colombia.

ROME: Rich and developing countries have hammered out a delicate compromise on raising and delivering the billions of dollars needed to protect species, overcoming stark divisions that scuttled their previous meeting in Colombia last year.