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.
Washington and Tehran held a second round of negotiations. The U.N. watchdog said an Iranian atomic bomb is 'not far off.'
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WHO members finally reach consensus on a draft pandemic agreement after 13 formal rounds of meetings since Dec. 2021.
An A.U.-E.U. workshop focused on how to use AI to enable the 'economic integration' and success of more techology startups.
