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Cop16: the world’s largest meeting to save nature has ended with no clear path ahead
The biodiversity summit in Colombia showed national governments are struggling to address the complexity of challenges that need to be overcome if we’re to preserve the natural world, writes HARRIET BULKELEY

PROGRESS at the UN’s biodiversity summit, Cop16, in Cali, Colombia, has been slow. Frustratingly so. 

There were high hopes that the Colombian hosts could co-ordinate action between developed and developing countries towards reaching the landmark global biodiversity agreement reached in Montreal, Canada at Cop15 two years ago. But after two weeks and one long night, negotiations ended abruptly. Many delegates had to leave to catch flights home with key issues unresolved.

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