About 2,000 Indeginous people from southwest Colombia marched in support of the government's agenda for the summit. Colombia has included Indigenous and Afro-descendant groups in the elaboration of the ‘Biodiversity Action Plan’.

The world's biggest nature protection conference opened in Colombia on Monday with its president calling for urgent action and financing to reverse humankind's rapacious destruction of biodiversity.

Cali, Colombia - October 20, 2024 Global leaders and environmental experts gathered in Cali, Colombia, on Sunday for the opening ceremony of the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity,