Negotiations on Environmental Agreement Drag On

The negotiations at the UN meeting on biological diversity, COP16, are dragging on.

The idea was that the meeting, which is being held in Colombia, would be concluded on Friday and lead to an agreement, but the countries are still too far apart on the major contentious issues, according to several media outlets.

Sweden's chief negotiator Charlotta Sörqvist tells Dagens Nyheter that she believes there may be negotiations throughout the night.

Sweden's Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L) tells SVT News that there is a risk that no agreement will be reached.