United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work on Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to spend what's been pledged so far - and how to raise a lot more to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth.

After last year’s COP16 reached an impasse, negotiators will make a second attempt to agree on funding to halt the global loss of biodiversity.

The world's biggest nature conservation conference resumed in Rome today, Tuesday, in a bid to overcome a deadlock between northern and southern countries over funding. Negotiations collapsed last year,