Funding climate action dominates UN talks

Just as a simple lever can move heavy objects, rich nations are hoping another kind of leverage - the financial sort - can help them come up with the money that poorer nations need to cope with climate change. It involves a complex package of grants, loans and private investment, and

UN talks on saving nature stumble on finance hurdle

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. With other successes under its belt, the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was suspended by its president Susana Muhamad