Xinhua News Agency, Kunming, October 15th (Reporters Yu Wenjing and Hu Lu) Huang Runqiu, Chairman of COP15 and Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, stated on the 15th that the international community expects the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to be a reversal of biodiversity loss. The key node of the trend, expect the conference to promote the achievement of the "Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework".
With the joint efforts of all parties, all the tasks planned for the first phase of the COP15 meeting were successfully completed.
Huang Runqiu said at the press conference of the first phase of COP15 that biodiversity is an important foundation for human survival and development.
Since the signing and implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the global biodiversity conservation process has been gradually advancing, and international cooperation has continued to deepen.
But in general, the situation facing global biodiversity is still severe, and the three major goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity, protection, utilization, and benefit sharing, still face many challenges.
He introduced that with the joint efforts of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Chinese Government and various parties, the first phase of the COP15 meeting was both ambitious and pragmatic, with fruitful results. The general agenda of the meeting was completed and the COP15 meeting was held. Level meetings, including leaders’ summits and ministerial meetings, held the Ecological Civilization Forum.
The high-level meeting adopted the "Kunming Declaration", and the Ecological Civilization Forum issued an initiative to protect biodiversity and jointly build a global ecological civilization, consolidating the development of the "Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework" for the second phase of the meeting to be held next year A broad consensus has been established and a solid foundation has been laid.
"As the chairman of the conference, I look forward to the conclusion of this conference, with the coordination and support of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, that all parties will work together to implement the results of the conference and promote global biodiversity governance to continuously achieve new results. , Step up to a new level." Huang Runqiu said.