Our Pacific Islands will be sitting at the global negotiations table this week, calling for increased funding and support to conserve and protect our Pacific biodiversity.
Following the suspension of the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) in November 2024 in Cali, Colombia, Heads of State, government leaders and officials, private sector, civil society, academics and youth will converge world in Rome, Italy at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations from 25-27 February for resumed sessions of COP16 and concurrent meetings to address agenda items left unresolved following the suspension.
The Pacific islands are custodians of the largest span of ocean in the world. They are home to rich and vast biodiversity and hold domain over large proportions of global ecosystems. In the fight to conserve biological diversity and sustainable use of its components, the Pacific region continues to showcase unwavering leadership.
