The Working Group on the "Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework" kicks off the last consultation before the second phase of COP15

　　China News Agency, Toronto, December 3rd (Reporter Yu Ruidong) As the last formal consultation of the working group on the eve of the second phase of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, "the post-2020 global The Fifth Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Biodiversity Framework was held in Montreal, Canada on December 3.

　　Participants will discuss the text of the "Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework" during this three-day "Framework" working group meeting.

　　The co-chairs of the working group, Basile van Avre and Francis Ogual, both called for "unity, flexibility and compromise".

Ainsworth, spokesman for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, told the media at the pre-meeting briefing that all parties have yet to reach consensus in many areas.

　　The first phase of COP15 was held in Kunming, China last October.

The second phase of the meeting will be held in Montreal, where the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is located, from December 7 to 19.

China will continue to lead the substantive and political affairs of the conference as the presidency of COP15.

The goal of the second phase of COP15 is to achieve the "Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework", which will be an overall and strategic framework document that sets the direction for global biodiversity governance before 2030 and beyond.

　　As the presidency of COP15, China has been actively promoting the "Framework" consultation process. It has organized 36 meetings of the COP15 Bureau and hosted 4 "Framework" working groups together with the Convention Secretariat in Geneva and Nairobi. The meeting made important efforts to promote the "Framework" consultations.

　　The Chinese side has also expressed its position many times before the meeting, expecting all parties to uphold the concept of a shared future for life on earth, fully demonstrate flexibility, meet each other halfway to achieve the "framework", seek compromise solutions on key issues, and promote the consensus reached in the second phase of COP15. A "framework" that balances ambition and pragmatism.

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