Negotiations stall over some crucial issues on final day of UN biodiversity summit in Colombia WSOC TV [Video]

CALI, Colombia — (AP) — At the United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia, negotiators have struggled to find common ground on key issues.

These include how to finance protections for 30% of the world’s plants and animals by 2030, how to establish a permanent body for Indigenous peoples and how to make payments for nature’s genetic data that’s used to create commercial products.

The two-week conference, known as COP16, was due to wrap up Friday, although observers say negotiations could go into the weekend.

In 2022, the biodiversity summit in Montreal, COP15, established a framework for countries to go about saving plummeting global ecosystems. This year’s follow-up summit was to put plans into motion.

“COP15 was all about the ‘what’; this was supposed to be about the ‘how,’” Georgina Chandler, head of policy and campaigns at The Zoological Society of London, told The Associated Press.

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