Turkey withdraws as host of Cop16, blaming February's earthquakes

UN appeals for another country to step in for biodiversity summit - due to take place in 2024 - as Ankara cites 'force majeure' for moveTurkey has withdrawn from hosting the United Nations' Cop16 biodiversity summit in 2024, citing three large earthquakes in February that devastated parts of the country.The nature summit, which will be the first since governments agreed this decade's biodiversity targets at Cop15 in Montreal last December, had been scheduled to take place in Turkey in October next year to discuss progress on the agreement. Continue reading...