COP16 Talks in Colombia Adopt a Novel Way to Pay for Conservation

By Catrin Einhorn Delegates at the U.N. talks created a system that would compensate countries for the use of genetic information but failed to make headway on a broader funding commitment.

Source: The New York Times

Category: United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Endangered and Extinct Species, Biodiversity, Colombia, Genetics and Heredity, Conservation of Resources, Environment, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), International Relations