Wealthy nations appeared to hit a limit with how much they are willing to pay to conserve nature around the world, instead shifting their focus at the two-week U.N. biodiversity summit toward discussions of private money filling the funding gap.

Although the COP16 summit in Colombia ended with some important agreements, countries still aren’t moving fast enough to stem biodiversity loss

India successfully intervenes at COP16 in Cali to ensure national laws are respected in a new global mechanism for sharing benefits from digital genetic information. Although the summit made progress,

Countries are unlikely to reach a major new funding agreement for nature conservation during this week's United Nations COP16 biodiversity summit, with delegates talking on Wednesday about pushing their negotiations beyond the summit's end.