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#1308862021-10-15
COP15 successful, China takes lead in biodiversity, says UN official
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Kunming, China, was "very successful and met all the expectations," said a CBD executive official.
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#1307952021-10-14
UN biodiversity chief says China critical to setting global framework
"It will be critical to see China's leadership in galvanizing countries globally to really accept an action-oriented post-2020 global biodiversity framework," said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, during the COP15 meeting in Kunming, southwes ...
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#1307992021-10-14
The five biggest threats to our natural world … and how we can stop them
The world’s wildlife populations have plummeted by more than two-thirds since 1970 – and there are no signs that this downward trend is slowing. The first phase of Cop15 talks in Kunming this week will lay the groundwork for governments to draw up a global agreement next year to halt the loss of ...
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#1308082021-10-14
Officials, experts say Xi's speech at COP15 injects confidence into promoting development of global ecological civilization
Officials and experts worldwide have spoken highly of Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech on Tuesday at the leaders' summit of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, known as COP15, via video link in Beijing.
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#1308132021-10-14
Finland participates virtually and onsite at COP15 in Kunming China
A large Finnish delegation led by Minister of Environment and Climate Krista Mikkonen will participate virtually in the UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 in Kunming China, the Embassy of Finland in Beijing reports.
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#1308142021-10-14
Significant Achievements Made by China in Biodiversity
The population of giant pandas in the wild has grown from 1,114 to 1,864 over the past four decades, while the Asian elephant population in the wild has grown from 180 in the 1980s to about 300 at present in China, according to the latest figures released in a govermental white paper on October ...
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#1308172021-10-14
CGTN: Xi Jinping unveils new measures at COP15 to strive for a beautiful China
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.
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#1307242021-10-13
COP15: China Announces Steps to Help Address the Biodiversity and Climate Crises
During global biodiversity talks at COP15 in Kunming, China, on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a new international fund to support biodiversity protection in developing countries, and stronger protections within China’s national park system, which provides habitat for 30 percent ...
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#1307282021-10-13
Kunming Declaration adopted at COP15
The Kunming Declaration was adopted Wednesday at the ongoing 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province
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#1307312021-10-13
Xi advocates community of all life on Earth at COP15
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for efforts to build a community of all life on Earth at a key UN meeting to enhance global biodiversity protection.
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#1307572021-10-13
Kunming Declaration announced at UN Convention on Biological Diversity – Greenpeace response
The COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) kicked off this week in Kunming, China, with a week of virtual meetings among governments and organisations.
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#1307662021-10-13
Prince Charles will call for countries to work together to combat climate change.
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 ...
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#1307732021-10-13
UN Biodiversity Conference: CGTN talks with British Ambassador to China
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.
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#1307802021-10-13
CGTN: Xi Jinping unveils new measures at COP15 to strive for a beautiful China
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.
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#1307832021-10-13
Xinjiang 'princess beaver' tells eco-protection efforts of young Chinese at COP15
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 ...
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#1306642021-10-12
China launches new biodiversity protection fund
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.
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#1306792021-10-12
China white paper on biodiversity sets agenda for COP15
The emergence of "ecological civilization" as a major concept to guide humankind in its demanding environmental conservation efforts is not a new concept. Although it appears like the idea is new-fangled, it was first published in the "Scientific Communism, Moscow, Vol. 2" journal in 1984 in an ...
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#1306872021-10-12
UNDP chief lauds China's efforts to protect biodiversity, pinning high hopes on COP15
Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has applauded China's efforts to protect biodiversity, and expressed great expectations for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which began on Mond ...
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#1306892021-10-12
COP15: vice-premier vows more ambitious biodiversity plans for China
Han Zheng declares in conference opening ceremony China will ‘make the protection of biodiversity an important task’. COP15’s aim for specific biodiversity targets helps quantify results and maintain accountability, says director of China’s Institute of Science and Development
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#1307092021-10-12
Preparing to save the planet: Meet the woman leading COP15
COP15, the world's largest and most important biodiversity summit, was supposed to have taken place a year ago in Kunming, China. But safety fears over the COVID-19 pandemic delayed it – first to May 2021 and then to October.
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#1306432021-10-11
COP15 opportunity to encourage nature-positive economic models: UN official
All countries should develop nature-positive economic models to boost climate resilience and protect ecosystems that underpin livelihoods, a senior official of the United Nations has said.
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#1306482021-10-11
MIL-OSI China: COP15 to mark ‘new chapter’ in biodiversity conservation
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) signals the start of a new ambitious and practical post-2020 global biodiversity framework, opening a new chapter in terms of global biodiversity governance, a Chinese official said on Sunday.
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#1306542021-10-11
Biodiversity COP: 6 things you need to know
Leaders from across the world are convening this week as part of the UN COP15 biodiversity conference, which kicks off with high-level talks aimed at setting global targets to reverse biodiversity loss. Here’s what you need to know.
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#1306552021-10-11
COP15 to create “right political setting” for biodiversity conservation blueprint: expert
The United Nations (UN) biodiversity conference that kicks off in the Chinese city of Kunming on Monday will create “right political setting” for drawing a blueprint for global biodiversity conservation in the future, a leading expert on environmental policies has said.
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#1306602021-10-11
Traffic Urges Crucial High-level Commitments As CoP15 Begins
As participants convene at the first part of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Kunming, China, TRAFFIC calls for high-level commitments from governments and other parties ahead of the adoption of the post-2020 Global ...
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#1306222021-10-06
COP15 kicks off in China's Kunming with ecological civilization in spotlight
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity officially kicked off in Kunming City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on Monday.
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#1305422021-09-23
78 financial institutions managing more than $10 trillion in assets urging governments to halt & reverse biodiversity loss.
Together with Ceres, Inc., the Public Policy Advocacy working group of the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation coordinated this statement directed to the Global Biodiversity Framework negotiating governments ahead of COP15
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#1305032021-09-22
Investors call for stronger global biodiversity framework to be delivered at COP15
A group of investors worth more than $10.6trn in assets under management has issued a statement ahead of the Convention on Biological Diversity's COP15 next month, calling for heightened global action to end deforestation and ensure sustainable land use.
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#1303572021-09-13
Preparations for COP15 in full swing in China's Kunming
Preparations are in full swing in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming one month ahead of a high-profile global meeting on biodiversity. The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) is set to kick off in Kunming on Oct. 11.
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#1301772021-09-01
What Is the COP15 Biodiversity Summit — And Why Is It So Important?
By now you've probably heard of COP26 — the shorthand name for the next major UN climate summit, rescheduled for November in Glasgow after being delayed a year by the coronavirus pandemic.
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#1301192021-08-24
Delegates hash out UN biodiversity goals online
Paris: Country delegates met online on Monday to start tackling a draft agreement for the pandemic-delayed COP15 global summit on biodiversity, days after the new summit date of April 2022 was set.
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#1300172021-08-18
China's Kunming City to host first session of COP15 from Oct. 11 to 15
The United Nations (UN) biodiversity conference has been divided into two sessions, with the first being held between October 11 to 15 in China's Kunming City, an official from China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) said on Wednesday.
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#1295162021-07-12
New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement Debuts
Still a work in progress, the Global Biodiversity Framework will ultimately advance to UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15 for consideration by 196 member parties. 21 targets, 10 ‘milestones’ proposed for 2030 en route to ‘living in harmony with nature’ by 2050; Include conserving and ...
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#1293832021-06-16
What is the COP15 biodiversity summit, and why is it so important?
The U.N.'s approaching COP26 climate talks have been in the limelight, but COP15 - the biodiversity conference planned for China in October - will be equally critical. Here's why
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#1290932021-06-04
Two-day events of COP15 meeting on biodiversity to conclude in Kunming
A subsidiary event of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) kicked off Sunday in Kunming, the capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Co-hosted by the Secretariat Office of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Ministry ...
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#1274072021-03-01
'Promises are not enough': Campaigners urge Prime Minister to enshrine 2030 nature protection goal into law
Stanley Johnson among group of high profile campaigners calling for government to set a legally-binding nature protection target ahead of pivotal COP15 UN nature talks
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#1260352020-12-07
China ready to lead world's fight to meet biodiversity targets
China has been at the center of biodiversity talks this year. In September, President Xi Jinping announced the country would be carbon neutral by 2060 and next year the COP15 will take place in Kunming.
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#1250522020-04-09
Les grands sommets sur l’environnement sont tous reportés
La réunion de l’UICN sur la nature prévu à Marseille cet été, les sommets COP15 sur la biodiversité et COP26 sur le changement climatique ont été ajournées.