Three days of talks in Rome ended with nations agreeing to support a $200 billion a year global plan to protect nature.
Delegates to a biodiversity summit at the last minute clinched a landmark agreement on how to pay for protecting more plant and animal species, overcoming the turmoil of a U.S.-led retreat from climate and green causes.
After intense negotiations, the agreement made at Rome in the early hours of Friday morning puts in place a strategy for raising at least $200 billion a year by 2030 to advance global biodiversity and conservation efforts.
People living in drylands doubled to 2.3 billion, more than a quarter of the world population, in the past three decades.
Nations for plastic production limits and oil-rich producers deadlocked in the hours before the talks were set to expire.
Negotiators are meeting in Busan, South Korea to conclude the world's first legally binding plastic waste treaty.
World leaders failed to reach agreement over who should pay what into which fund toward the global biodiversity goals.
One donor predicts more than 1 million kids in poor countries could die without U.S. funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
In a surprise turnaround, the U.S. president wants the New York Republican congresswoman to stay in her job.
From Africa to the Americas, leaders spoke of the need to ensure that policy decisions are more scientifically informed.
Experts agreed science and diplomacy need to evolve to build trust, solve problems, and promote national interests.
