{"id":20021,"date":"2024-09-03T15:19:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=20021"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:19:31","slug":"about-cop16-the-un-biodiversity-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2024\/09\/03\/about-cop16-the-un-biodiversity-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"About COP16, the UN Biodiversity Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is an international treaty addressing conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Adopted at the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the CBD covers all\u00a0ecosystems,\u00a0species, and genetic resources and aims to develop national strategies to conserve biodiversity and use it sustainably and equitably.<\/p>\n

Its governing body, known as the Conference of the Parties (or COP), meets periodically to review progress, set priorities and commit to future plans for biodiversity conservation. The COP\u2019s 16th meeting will be held in Cali, Colombia October 21 \u2013 November 1, 2024.<\/p>\n

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COP16 is the 2024 meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":19890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cop16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20024,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021\/revisions\/20024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}