Top environmental delegates have resumed talks for the United Nations' COP-16 biodiversity summit in Rome. They are set to negotiate a way to pay for $200 billion dollars a year of biodiversity protection by 2030.

Global leaders and biodiversity experts have reconvened in Rome for the continuation of the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), with financing nature conservation high on the agenda.

The UK has belatedly published its plan for how it will “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss this decade, as nations gather in Rome for resumed COP16 talks.

WWF warns that if countries heading to Rome for the resumed UN biodiversity conference (COP16.2) cannot agree on a way forward on finance, it will be a major setback for the Global Biodiversity Framework, with critical fundraising efforts hampered to implement the targets – just five years away from the deadline.

Commitments set out during conference as COP16 negotiations resume in Rome on delivering global nature goals The UK has today (Wednesday 26 February