FILE PHOTO: A person walks through the Valle del Pacifico event center, ahead of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Cali, Colombia October 20, 2024. REUTERS/Juan David Duque/File Photo
(Reuters) - Countries are expected to reach a deal at this month's U.N. COP16 nature summit on how the world uses and pays for genetic information extracted from nature, according to negotiators.
Experts refer to this data as "digital sequence information," or DSI for short. Here is what you need to know about the talks: