Nature ‘piracy’, funding to dominate UN summit

A group of children play soccer in the middle of the jungle in La Playa, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Cali (Colombia): Delegates from almost 200 countries are gathering this week in Cali, Colombia, for the biennial United Nations (UN) summit on biodiversity, the first one since the landmark Global Biodiversity Framework was signed in Montreal in December 2022.

Nature is disappearing at an alarming rate.