It is hoped that the deal will help countries to reach their goal of raising $200bn (£159bn) by 2030 for biodiversity action. The current rate of species decline is so great globally that many scientists warn humans could be causing the "sixth mass extinction" on Earth.

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year, resumed its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.

An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to spend what's been pledged so far — and how to raise a lot more to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth.

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.

Annual conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year resumes in Rome with nations sparring over money.

More than 140 countries struck a deal on a strategy to raise and distribute billions of dollars to protect nature at a UN biodiversity summit that provided a “light of hope” amid rising geopolitical tensions and cuts to climate and science programmes by the US.

ROME — Global talks to protect nature restarted on Tuesday with a call for humanity to come together to "sustain life on the planet" and overcome the deep divisions that caused a previous meeting last year to end in disarray.

COP16 talks in Rome yielded agreement on funding nature restoration in poorer countries — but some details remain vague.

After a fruitless meeting in Columbia last year, tense UN talks in Rome yielded on Thursday a global plan to preserve the planet's dwindling wildlife, setting a financial roadmap for the

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