The global talks to protect biological diversity have prepared an invitation to humanity to meet “to preserve life on the planet” and overcome a Fighting on funding This caused the previous meeting last year in a state of chaos.

More than two years after a A historical deal on biological diversity Including a pledge to protect 30 percent of land and seas in the world by 2030 – Nations are still represented in the money necessary to reflect the destruction that scientists say to threaten one million species.

Negotists who meet at the headquarters of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome are assigned to resolve a dead end between the rich and developing countries on the creation of a specific fund to finance nature.

The dispute over this issue witnessed the previous UN COP16 previous talks in Kali, Colombia in November, extending for additional hours and ending without a deal.

Speaking at the opening of the talks in Rome on Tuesday, many developing countries urged the meeting to cancel the ban and called on the wealthy countries to achieve their pledge to provide $ 20 billion annually to the poorest countries by 2025.

“Without this, confidence may be broken,” said Panama’s representative, urging the international community to ensure that public financing after 2030 reflects the “urgency of the biodiversity crisis.”

This is a matter of survival of ecosystems, economics and humanity. We cannot repeat climate financing failures, COP16.2 should be offered more than words, and must be provided. The world is outside time. “

The population of global wildlife has decreased on average by 73 percent in 50 years, according to a report issued by the Global Wildlife Fund and the Association of Zoology in London.

The talks come at a time when countries face a set of challenges from trade tensions and debt anxiety over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

While Washington did not register the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity, the new US President Donald Trump moved to Stopping development financing Through the United States Agency for International Development.

The President of COP16, Susanna Muhammad Al -Baladan, urged to work together “for something that is likely to be the most important purpose of humanity in the twenty -first century, which is our collective ability to preserve life on this planet.”

Mohamed, who resigned from the Minister of Environment in Colombia but will continue to work until after the COP16 conference, she said she was “optimistic” from a solution in Rome.

Away from the record 23,000 participants at the Cali conference, the talks resumed in a smaller coordination, as 1,400 people and a few of 100 representatives of the country were approved in the plenary session in a hall overlooking the ruins of the MAXIMUS in Rome.

The two countries were launched directly in closed negotiations that will extend to Tuesday evening.

They have until Thursday to clarify a plan for more than $ 200 billion annually of financing for biological diversity by 2030, including $ 30 billion annually from the wealthiest countries to the poor.

The total of 2022 was about $ 15 billion, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The discussion is mainly focused on the path where the financing is delivered.

Developing countries – led by Brazil and the African Group – want to create a new fund for allocated biological diversity, saying that they do not represent them adequately in the existing mechanisms.

The wealthy countries – led by the European Union, Japan and Canada – say that the creation of multiple funds would exceed aid.

On Friday, the COP16 presidency published a new text that suggested postponing the final decision on a new United Nations conversations fund in the future, with a proposal to reform the current financing.

Oscar Syria, CEO of the Joint Initiative, was a research reservoir specializing in global economic and environmental policy, pessimistic about raising more money and said the main sources of financing biodiversity are shrinking or disappearing.

“We are completely outside the path in terms of achieving this money,” Syria told Associated Press.

“What was supposed to be the good Colombia in which people would have already attend the correct resources, and the happy ending to bring their money, can actually end that it is a tragic Italian opera, as no one agrees to anything and loses everyone.”

A new box has been launched

One of the accomplishments in Kali was the creation of a new box to exchange profits from the digital genetic data digitally from plants and animals with the societies from which it comes.

The fund, which was officially launched on Tuesday, was designed so that large companies can contribute to part of the profit or revenues it achieves from developing things like medicine and cosmetics using these data, which can add up to billions of dollars.

The news agency told Agence France Presse that Ximena Barrara from WWF Colombia as saying that the fund would guarantee “the direct benefits of those who have protected ecosystems for several centuries” and was an important milestone for corporate contributions to nature.

The failure to finish the touches on an agreement in Kali was the first in a series of disappointing results of the planet in the United Nations summary last year.

The COP29 climate financing deal was in Azerbaijan in November Criticize the disappointmentWhile separate negotiations about Desertification and Plastic pollution He stopped in December.