What is 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference?
{{Infobox summit |name=United Nations Biodiversity Conference |other_titles=COP16 |image= COP16 logo.jpg |caption= |date=21 October - 1 November 2024 |cities=[[Cali]], [[Valle del Cauca Department|Valle del Cauca]], [[Colombia]] |venues= |coordinates=<!-- {{coord|LAT|LON|region:XXXX_type:event|display=inline,title}} --> |follows=[[2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference|← Kunming/Montreal 2022]] |precedes=|participants=[[Convention on Biological Diversity]] member countries |website=https://www.cbd.int/meetings }} The '''2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16)''' [was] a [[conference]] in 2024.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2022-12-19|title=Historic biodiversity agreement reached at Montreal COP15|language=en|work=Le Monde.fr|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2022/12/19/cop15-historic-biodiversity-agreement-found-at-montreal-conference_6008297_114.html|access-date=2024-02-20}}</ref><!--of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)--> ''COP'' means [[conference of the parties]]; Earlier there was a ''COP15''; It was the 15th conference of its kind. Background: There was an earlier conference where a monitoring framework was agreed upon. That framework should allow the progress of the countries towards national goals and targets under the [[Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework]] to be evaluated.<ref>{{Cite web|title=expert reaction to global biodiversity agreement reached at UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 {{!}} Science Media Centre|url=https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-global-biodiversity-agreement-reached-at-un-biodiversity-conference-cop15/|access-date=2024-02-20|language=en-GB}}</ref> ==History== On 11 December 2023, [[Colombia]], through its Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development Susana Muhamad, officially offered to host the event from 21 October to 1 November 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2023-12-11|title=Colombia se postula para ser sede de la Cumbre de Biodiversidad más importante del mundo|url=https://www.minambiente.go