CALI The world's biggest nature conservation conference closed in Colombia on Nov. 2 with no agreement on a roadmap to ramp up funding for species protection. With other successes under its belt, the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN 's Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ) was suspended by its president Susana Muhamad as negotiations ran almost 12 hours longer than planned and delegates started leaving to catch flights. The exodus left the summit without a quorum for decision-