COP15 on biodiversity: a hundred countries adopt the "Kunming Declaration"

President Xi Jinping by videoconference in the media room of the Kunming Cop15 on October 12, 2021. AFP - STR

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The representatives of more than a hundred countries adopted this Wednesday, October 13 the "Kunming declaration" on the protection of biodiversity in the world.

This non-binding text must mark the commitment of the countries present at COP15, which is being held by videoconference in southwest China.

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With our correspondent in Beijing,

After Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech on Tuesday, the "Kunming declaration" is a strong message of " 

 " around the animal and plant cause, said the Chinese Minister of the Environment.

China was eager to set the course for these six months of negotiations before

.

The text adopted on Wednesday calls on international actors to act in an " 

 " to transform economies so as to preserve species.

It is not the gibbons who will oppose it, nor the black bears, the red pandas and the Burmese pythons of this Chinese province of Yunnan, which hosts this summit on biodiversity, because there is urgency: the rate of disappearance of the inhabitants of our natural environments has never been higher.

The declaration takes up the concept of " 

 " of Xi Jinping, the number one Chinese who has promised the establishment of a fund to support

endowed with 200 million, as well as 230 million. 000 km2 of preserved natural spaces including the Sanjiangyuan park at the sources of the Yangtze, the national park of the giant pandas straddling three provinces in the west of the country, or those of the Siberian tiger and the Amur river leopard in the north. east of China.

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