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Senior ministers from around the world gather consensus and demonstrate determination to restore biodiversity

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  (Biodiversity Conference) Global ministerial senior officials gathered consensus to show determination to restore biodiversity

China News Service, Kunming, October 13 (Reporter Miao Chao, Chen Su and Zhang Chenyi) The High-level Meeting and Ministerial Plenary Meeting of the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity was held in Kunming, China from the 12th to the 13th. Senior ministers from many countries have reached consensus in the field of biodiversity and demonstrated to the world their determination to jointly restore biodiversity.

On October 12, the Ministerial Plenary Meeting of the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity was held in Kunming, Yunnan. The picture shows the Minister of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Huang Runqiu, presided over the meeting.Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Ranyang

At the plenary meeting, senior ministerial officials from various countries participated in a number of parallel round tables, focusing on “the road to biodiversity restoration”, “bridging the financing gap, and ensuring implementation means”, “biodiversity conservation and sustainable development”, “knowledge, innovation and cooperation”. Discussion on the four themes of “benefit sharing”.

Participants believed that human beings are at a very critical moment and need to take active actions and make unprecedented efforts to strengthen biodiversity protection. It is necessary to attach importance to the participation of stakeholders such as the business sector, the scientific community, indigenous peoples, and young women, and to incorporate the protection of biodiversity into the work of all government departments. Biodiversity, climate change, sustainable development, and public health are inseparable, and a systematic and holistic approach is needed to prevent the loss of biodiversity. Countries need to make farming, fishing, and forest management more sustainable.

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Participants called on all parties to cooperate to protect biodiversity and use sufficient financial resources to promote biodiversity conservation. At present, there is a huge gap in global biodiversity conservation funds, which requires all parties to mobilize various domestic and international effective resources to deal with it, and use various measures to invest in biodiversity conservation. At present, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has made global biodiversity protection more difficult, which requires joint attention to biodiversity protection after the epidemic.

Participants emphasized that economic development must be green and sustainable, and biodiversity conservation must be considered together with economic development. To this end, all parties shared their successful cases of nature-based solutions to protect biodiversity, and demonstrated innovative methods in species protection, protection, and local community cooperation. These cases and methods show that nature-based solutions can not only alleviate the risks caused by climate change, but also stimulate economic development and obtain sustainable income.

Participants proposed that in order to achieve the goals set by the Convention on Biological Diversity, there is an urgent need to promote relevant technological development, innovation and cooperation. Scientific research, technology transfer, capacity building, and acquisition and sharing are important foundations for protecting and sustaining biodiversity. Technology transfer, data sharing, and capacity building are also the basic guidelines for the direction of global biodiversity after 2020. Therefore, it is necessary to share technical data between countries and promote the improvement of the scientific and technological capabilities of developing countries.

At the two-day plenary meeting, the participants reached consensus and demonstrated their determination to jointly restore biodiversity, enhance human well-being, and achieve sustainable development. (over)

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