The COP16 biodiversity summit would follow up on a landmark deal at the last talks in 2022 in Montreal which promised to secure 30 percent of the planet as a protected zone by 2030.
Colombia made its announcement during the separate COP28 climate summit in Dubai, where the South American country's first left-wing government has been outspoken in seeking environmental action.
Colombia's minister of environment and sustainable development, Susana Muhamad, called the biodiversity summit a "great opportunity for the most biodiverse nation per hectare in the world".
"This is an event that would send a message from Latin America to the world about climate action and the protection of life," she said in a statement.
Ximena Barrera of the WWF conservation group said that Colombia would bring "enormous authority" to the biodiversity talks due to its strong stance on environmental protection.
Climate change and ocean pollution have been major culprits in threatening the planet's diversity of species.
The Montreal summit also raised pledges to commit $30 billion a year for developing countries to halt human-caused extinction of threatened species.
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which still must formally approve Colombia's bid, had been urgently seeking a host for the talks that are tentatively scheduled to start on October 21.
Unlike the climate COP, the biodiversity COP -- which stands for Conference of Parties -- takes place every two years.
Turkey, after pulling out of next year's biodiversity summit, has offered to hold climate talks in 2026.
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