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​Flags hung at the reconvening of the COP16 conference in Rome last month, with an inset image of Adrian Gahan, the ocean lead for Campaign for Nature.
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What happened at the UN Biodiversity Summit in Rome, and what comes next?

Countries gathered in Rome in late February to finalize key decisions left unresolved after last year’s COP16 summit in Colombia. In Italy, negotiators agreed to the first global deal for finance conservation, which aims to achieve the landmark goal of protecting and restoring 30% of the world’s land and seas by 2030. At the conference, Eurasia Group’s María José Valverde interviewed Adrian Gahan, the ocean lead for Campaign for Nature, a global campaign founded in 2018 to secure the 30x30 target, as we look ahead to the UN ocean conference in June.

​In this photo illustration, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 UAE logo is seen on a smartphone screen.
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COP28’s challenge: growing problems, shrinking credibility

As 60,000 delegates gather today in Dubai for the opening of COP28, scant progress on longstanding climate goals and an emerging scandal over the fossil fuel industry’s influence over the UN climate conference is undermining COP’s credibility.

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Microsoft and HUMAIN advance AI adoption across the Arabic-speaking world

Microsoft and Saudi Arabia-based HUMAIN announced a long-term strategic collaboration to expand access to Arabic-language AI capabilities. Plans include bringing HUMAIN's ALLAM models to Microsoft Foundry and the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem, while combined engineering teams work directly with organizations to accelerate enterprise AI deployment and adoption. The collaboration aims to strengthen Arabic-language AI innovation, helping organizations build and deploy AI solutions tailored to regional business and productivity needs while expanding access to advanced AI tools across the Middle East and beyond. Read the full announcement here.

A person walks past a "#COP28" sign in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Analysis

Controversies at COP28 and the future of climate change

Global climate talks are kicking off at COP28 on Thursday amid revelations that its host, the United Arab Emirates, is using the event to lobby for fossil fuel production. GZERO's Riley Callanan talked to Eurasia Group Vice Chairman Gerald Butts, who was a part of Canada’s delegation when the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP2 in 2015, about COP28, oil and gas, progressive agendas and much more.