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The Latest Breaking News from COP15

The world needs $700bn a year to restore nature. But where is the money coming from?

Representatives from nearly 200 countries at the UN’s Cop16 summit in Colombia have yet to break the deadlock over who pays and how much

The Guardian - UK

Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘biopiracy’ battle

As multinationals and researchers harvest rare organisms around the world, anger is rising in the global south over the unpaid use of lucrative genetic codes found on their land

The Guardian - UK

The ‘carbon pirates’ preying on Amazon’s Indigenous communities

Selling credits should fund forest protection, but unscrupulous firms are making deals where local land stewards lose out, say Indigenous leaders

The Guardian - UK

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Bold COP15 deal can halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030

The agreements from the COP15 biodiversity summit are voluntary and non-binding, but the setting of goals and how to monitor progress will create more accountability, writes Rod Oram

Newsroom.co.nz

Afternoon Update: Rudd appointed envoy to the US; neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell faces jail time; and last-minute Christmas gift guide

Former PM Kevin Rudd’s appointment to ambassador could become awkward if Trump returns to power

The Guardian - AU

'Last chance' deal to save world's biodiversity agreed at Cop15

An historic deal to safeguard a third of the planet by 2030 and halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems has been agreed at UN biodiversity talks in Montreal.

Radio France Internationale

Cop15 negotiators close to agreeing nature deal as talks draw to end

Final agreement could see better protection for vital ecosystems and big reforms to agriculture

The Guardian - UK

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Cop15 brokers talk up hopes for nature deal as conference enters final stretch

Agreement will need to strike consensus over sources and mechanisms to fund conservation

The Guardian - UK

Conservationists hail US plan to ban shark fin trade

As US faces criticism at Cop15 biodiversity conference over failure to sign 30-year-old pact to protect nature, Biden poised to sign shark fin measure into law

The Guardian - US

Cop15 diary week two: creative cops, penalty shootouts and high ambition

Our reporters give you the inside story on what’s happening at the biodiversity summit in Montreal

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Democrats celebrate as Raphael Warnock wins Georgia runoff

Republican Herschel Walker concedes as Warnock celebrates bolstering the Democratic party’s Senate majority

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