COP15: Xi Jinping pledges more than 200 million for a biodiversity protection fund

The Chinese president announced on October 12 a fund of more than 200 million euros to help conserve the biodiversity of developing countries and an effort in the development of renewable energies.

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In China, COP15, the UN conference on biodiversity, has been launched.

In a video speech, the Chinese president announced a fund of more than 200 million euros to help the biodiversity conservation of developing countries and an effort in the development of renewable energies.

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With our correspondent in Beijing,

NGOs and diplomats in Kunming were waiting for a strong announcement to try to reverse the curve of biodiversity loss.

This speech is just the beginning and is addressed to those who demanded, especially in Africa and South America, a helping hand from developed countries to protect primary forests, wetlands and other grasslands still in part preserved from the advance of megalopolises.

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An essential investment

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 " said Xi Jinping via the screens of the COP15.

Locally, the Chinese president announces an acceleration of large-scale photovoltaic and wind projects, against a background of music and images of giant pale wind turbines lying in the sands of the Gobi Desert in

by state media.

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The objective is to reach, by the end of the conference next May, a joint declaration of countries' commitments to protect 30% of their land and sea areas.

It is impossible to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement without investing in biodiversity.

COP15 is

with

, so it is also an important showcase for Chinese diplomacy, which intends to claim the moral supremacy of global environmental governance.

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