India, Feb. 23 -- Biodiversity implementation meeting ends without consensus on key issues

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The sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 6) of the Convention on Biological Diversity concluded without decisions on several crucial issues, marking a critical staging post on the road to the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia.

Opening the meeting, SBI 6 Chair Clarissa Souza Della Nina of Brazil urged delegates to "forge common ground for the common good" and to find "solutions, not brackets". H...