{"id":47857,"date":"2026-10-13T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47857"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:06:17","slug":"sa-to-push-for-fair-biodiversity-financing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-to-push-for-fair-biodiversity-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"SA to push for fair biodiversity financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">South Africa (SA) says it will call for fair financing and equitable benefit-sharing at the upcoming United Nations Biodiversity COP17 in Yerevan, Armenia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, known as CBD COP17, will take place from October 19 to 30.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The SA delegation will be led by Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Narend Singh.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The country is expected to emphasise the need for developing nations to receive adequate financial support and benefit fairly from the use of genetic resources.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43319,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47857","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA says it will call for fair financing, equitable benefit-sharing","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47859,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47857\/revisions\/47859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}