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A key UN summit tasked with protecting biodiversity officially opened in China on Monday, as countries meet to tackle pollution and prevent mass extinction weeks before the COP26 climate conference.
The best-known COP is the one on climate. The climate conference takes place every year in different countries. The COP in France in 2015 gave birth to the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) kicked off this week in Kunming, China, with a week of virtual meetings among governments and organisations.
More than 100 countries pledged on Wednesday to put the protection of habitats at the heart of their government decision-making but they stopped short of committing to specific targets to curb mass extinctions.
China officially unveiled its first batch of national parks on Tuesday at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
The Kunming Declaration, the newest globally-recognized agreement on biological diversity, calls for urgent and integrated action for transformative change for nature and people in order to stop the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
Biodiversity is a global public good. We at the World Bank Group believe it's also a key development issue. Our research estimates that Low-Income Countries could forego around 10 percent of their GDP annually by 2030 if select ecosystem services, such as those of forests, fisheries and pollinat ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech via video link at the Leaders’ Summit of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) on October 12, 2021. His call for “building a community of all life on Earth” has struck a resonati ...
COVID-19 has been destructive in so many ways, but it has also caused people to stop, reimagine and plan for a stronger, more enduring future, with nature as its foundation, New Zealand Conservation Minister Kiritapu Allan said on Wednesday.
More than 100 countries pledged on Wednesday to put the protection of habitats at the heart of their government decision-making but they stopped short of committing to specific targets to curb mass extinctions. Chinese Environment Minister Huang Runqiu told delegates to a U.N. Biodiversity Conf ...
PRINCE Charles could visit China for the first time in a bid to persuade the world’s biggest polluter to help curb climate change. In a video link to the United Nations Cop15 biodiversity summit in the city of Kunming today, he will say world polluters must pay for environmental destruction and ...
Accelerated biodiversity loss is another code red crisis humanity faces today. Our planetary life-support systems are crumbling around us. Loss of nature, damaged ecosystems and polluted land and oceans are among the most devastating blows humankind has dealt Mother Nature. With more than one mi ...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world's largest agency for the protection of biodiversity and natural resources. Its "red list" keeps track of threatened species and their conservation status. Our reporter Zhou Jiaxin spoke with Zhang Xinsheng, who recently stepped down ...
China is accelerating the establishment of a system of protected areas that will eventually encompass all the areas of greatest importance to China's natural ecosystem.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for closer international cooperation on preserving biodiversity and providing related support to developing countries.
As the United Nations Biodiversity Conference begins, Eco-Business sits down with Akanksha Khatri to talk about the importance of natural capital accounting and her dream of countries adopting a Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP).
On the sidelines of the COP15 UN Convention on Biodiversity, our reporter Meng Qingsheng sat down with Caroline Wilson, British Ambassador to China. The diplomat shared her insights on global biodiversity protection and coping with climate change.
The first part of the UN Biodiversity Summit, COP15, began on Monday. The two-part conference aims to deliver a crucial global biodiversity framework for this decade. Hosts China pledged $233m towards a biodiversity fund for developing countries and invited other countries to contribute. Over 10 ...
The Kunming Declaration, adopted at the end of the UN Biodiversity Conference’s latest High Level Segment, which took place in Kunming, China, calls on the States Parties to act urgently on biodiversity protection in decision-making and recognise the importance of conservation in protecting huma ...
More than 100 countries pledged on Wednesday to put the protection of habitats at the heart of their government decision-making, as the Kunming Declaration was adopted at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15).
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity kicks off Monday in Kunming in southwestern China, and expectations are high for a blueprint on preserving global biodiversity in the coming years.
At the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a keynote speech that once again surpassed the outdated clash of civilizations narrative. I ...
Beijing on Tuesday unveiled an array of measures to continue the country's endeavor to build a beautiful China as the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) is held in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Cuba urged on Wednesday at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15) to stop the destruction of the environment caused by irrational patterns of production and consumption, after warning about the threats to the planet and human life.
The Deputy Head of Mission of Poland's Embassy in Beijing, Radoslaw Flisiuk, is a participant at the COP15. He told CGTN his thoughts of the commitments China made at the conference. Noting that China's role is very important, Flisiuk said it is commendable for China to have taken the challenge ...
Before Chu Wenwen, a wildlife conservationist from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, set out for Kunming, she had practiced her speech hundreds of times in front of a beaver nest. As the youth representative to the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Conve ...
China has broken ground on a massive 100-gigawatt renewable energy project, larger than all solar and wind installations in India combined, President Xi Jinping announced Tuesday, by video link, at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China.
Slovenia, current holder of the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), on Wednesday welcomed the "Kunming Declaration," which was adopted earlier in the day by government ministers meeting for the United Nations (UN) Biodiversity Conference in the southwestern Chinese cit ...
The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in the Chinese city of Kunming has adopted a pledge to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and agree a framework to protect threatened habitats.
China’s commitment to taking the lead by investing 1.5 billion yuan (about 233 million U.S. dollars) to establish a Kunming Biodiversity Fund is a critical step to continue promoting global ecological civilization, experts and media professionals have said.
More than 100 countries on Wednesday concluded a round of negotiations on global efforts to restore and protect the variety of life on Earth by pledging "urgent and integrated action" to achieve "transformative change, across all sectors of the economy and all parts of society."
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), being hosted in Kunming, the capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, from Monday, October 11, is expected to draw a blueprint for future biodiversity conservation.
Mr Xi was addressing virtually the COP15 global biodiversity summit in Kunming, China. "Developing countries need help and support and solidarity must be strengthened to allow developing countries to benefit in a fairer way," Xi said.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for global consensus on ending the biodiversity crisis that has threatened the survival of humankind.
Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Zhaparov said Tuesday that his country is keen on protecting its mountain biodiversity in the face of climate change.
China has made milestone achievements in wild giant panda protection and breeding through arduous and persistent efforts, which has thrived and prospered its population from the brink of extinction.
Protecting biodiversity requires more solidarity across countries, an official of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the launch of a 1.5 billion yuan ($232.47 million) fund on Tuesday to support biodiversity protection in developing countries, as talks continue on a new post-2020 global pact to tackle species loss.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called for closer international cooperation on preserving biodiversity and providing related support to developing countries.
China plans to speed up the construction of large-scale wind and solar power bases in its desert regions, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday. Xi told the United Nations biodiversity forum in Kunming that construction on the first phase of the project commenced recently and would involve a tota ...
China today pledged to inject US$233 million into a new fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries during a key UN conservation summit, despite disagreements among major donors on the initiative.
Papua New Guinean (PNG) Prime Minister James Marape on Tuesday called for financial support to help the island country preserve its rainforests, or the "lungs of the world."
China will establish an international fund to support biodiversity protection in developing countries, president Xi Jinping told the opening high-level session of UN biodiversity talks on Tuesday.
The chit chat at family dinner a couple of years ago turned political when we began discussing the best alternatives for my home country's development. I argued, on a self-sufficient line, that protecting and managing our biodiversity instead of relying on fossil fuels — as we had for decades — ...
With more than a million species at risk of extinction, countries must work now to achieve a sustainable future for people and the planet, Secretary-General António Guterres told leaders attending the UN Biodiversity Conference, which opened on Monday from Kunming, China.
Greater support was urged for developing nations on biodiversity conservation on the opening day of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP 15, in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Monday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan highlighted the necessity for global cooperation in the face of climate change, saying that all countries should shoulder responsibility and that Turkey will do all that is necessary to protect biodiversity.