COP16 versus COP29 - climate goals lead to a global funding fight

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🗞️ Driving the news: COP16 in Colombia highlighted biodiversity as essential to climate resilience, with a focus on Indigenous-led conservation and establishing a Global Biodiversity Fund
• COP29, set for Baku, Azerbaijan, will likely prioritize integrated approaches linking biodiversity and climate finance, aiming to secure support for nature-based solutions and climate-vulnerable regions

🔭 The context: Biodiversity preservation took center stage at COP16, with goals for ecosystem protection and a framework for biodiversity targets by 2030
• However, funding disparities between developed and developing nations, along with calls for transparent monitoring, spotlighted ongoing challenges in conservation financing

🌍 Why it matters for the planet: Rising temperatures and intense climate impacts threaten both biodiversity and climate goals, underscoring the need for cohesive global policies
• Integrated climate and biodiversity strategies are increasingly seen as vital to achieving resilience and protecting fragile ecosystems

⏭️ What's next: COP29 will likely focus on expanding climate finance for biodiversity, implementing loss and damage frameworks, and advancing unified biodiversity-climate strategies
• Funding commitments from developed countries will remain a key negotiation point, particularly to support adaptation and conservation in vulnerable regions

💬 One quote: “It recognizes and protects the traditional knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples...for the benefit of global and national biodiversity management,” - Sushil Raj, Wildlife Conservation Society

📈 One stat: 650 investors managing $33 trillion in assets are pushing for stronger global climate policies at COP29

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