UN talks on saving nature stumble on funding hurdle

Delegates attend the last plenary session of the COP16 Summit in Cali, Colombia, on Nov. 1, 2024. Police stand guard in front of a hotel a day ahead of the COP16 United Nations biodiversity conference, in host city Cali, Colombia, Oct. 19, 2024.

The world's biggest nature conservation conference closed in Colombia on Saturday with no agreement on a roadmap to ramp up funding for species protection.