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#1306532021-10-11
China vows to include biodiversity in economic plans as UN talks begin
China – China will incorporate biodiversity protection in the development plans of all of its regions and sectors and draw up a national conservation strategy, Vice Premier Han Zheng said at the opening of U.N. biodiversity talks on Monday.
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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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#1306562021-10-11
Natural History Museum reveals the world has crashed through the ‘safe limit for humanity’ for biodiversity loss
Natural History Museum analysis has also revealed that the UK, with an average of only 53% of its biodiversity left - is in the bottom 10% of the world’s countries, last in the G7 and a long way behind China
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A remarkable comeback for wildlife in China
Several rare wildlife species whose populations had dwindled over the years, with some on the edge of extinction, have made a remarkable comeback across China.
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#1306582021-10-11
Civil Society Calls On World Leaders To Put Human Rights At The Centre Of Environmental Policy
In the lead-up to historic agreements on climate and nature being made in the next month, more than 150 civil society and indigenous organisations, and academics, from more than 50 countries, have today published an open letter calling on world leaders to put human rights at the centre of enviro ...
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#1306592021-10-11
President's vision on ecology charts course of sustainable development
Journalists read brochures at the media center for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP 15, in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Saturday. The phase-one meeting of COP 15 starts on Monday and runs through
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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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#1306612021-10-11
COP15: China’s Xi Jinping pledges US$232m for new fund to protect world biodiversity
China will donate 1.5 billion yuan (US$232.5 million) to set up a new fund to help developing countries conserve biodiversity, President Xi Jinping has pledged at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15).
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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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#1306652021-10-12
UN chief urges bold actions to end biodiversity crisis
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for global consensus on ending the biodiversity crisis that has threatened the survival of humankind.
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#1306662021-10-12
Kyrgyz president says mountain preservation tops country's biodiversity agenda
Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Zhaparov said Tuesday that his country is keen on protecting its mountain biodiversity in the face of climate change.
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#1306672021-10-12
China makes strides in panda protection, biodiversity conservation
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.
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#1306682021-10-12
Protecting biodiversity requires more solidarity across countries, says IPBES official
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.
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#1306692021-10-12
China's Xi launches $232 mln biodiversity protection fund for developing countries
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.
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#1306702021-10-12
Putin calls for closer global cooperation on conserving biodiversity
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called for closer international cooperation on preserving biodiversity and providing related support to developing countries.
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China to speed up desert wind, solar construction in northwest - Xi
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 ...
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#1306722021-10-12
China pledges US$233 million to global biodiversity fund
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.
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PNG PM urges financial support for biodiversity conservation
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."
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#1306742021-10-12
Xi Jinping announces biodiversity fund to help developing nations protect nature
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.
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#1306752021-10-12
Preserving biodiversity, an urgent demanding task
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 — ...
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#1306762021-10-12
UN chief calls for bold action to end 'suicidal war with nature'
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.
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COP 15 places eco-civilization under spotlight
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.
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#1306782021-10-12
All countries need to take action to protect biodiversity: Erdoğan
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.
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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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#1306802021-10-12
Climate: Northern Ireland needs £5 billion to cut carbon and improve biodiversity says report
Northern Ireland needs an extra £5 billion over the next decade to protect and restore nature, according to a new report. The work by the Green Finance Institute has identified a major investment gap between required spending and that actually committed to delivering net-zero and improving biodi ...
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#1306812021-10-12
China pledges US$230 million for biodiversity fund at UN meet
The weeklong meeting marks the formal start of a new round of global talks on protecting the world's plants and animals from extinction. A second and final session that will try to agree on targets for the next 10 years is scheduled to be held in Kunming from April 25 to May 8 next year.
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UN CBD secretariat hails China's efforts in biodiversity
An official from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has hailed China's efforts to preserve biodiversity over the years. The Deputy Executive Secretary of the CBD David Cooper said the upcoming Kunming Declaration can create more clarity on commitments to biodiversity.
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China has reaffirmed its commitments to global biodiversity conservation, says UN official
Inger Andersen, the executive director of the UN Environment Program, said that by agreeing to host the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), which is set to kick off on Oct. 11 in the southwestern city of Kunming, China has reaffirme ...
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#1306842021-10-12
Prince Charles issues stark message to China - urges to adopt 'polluter pays principle'
The future King has used the Royal Family's soft diplomatic power as he officially launched a UN-hosted biodiversity conference in Kunming, China. Prince Charles warned attendees humanity is bringing devastation upon itself by not respecting and protecting nature.
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#1306852021-10-12
UN chief urges bold actions to end biodiversity crisis
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for global consensus on ending the biodiversity crisis that has threatened the survival of humankind.
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#1306862021-10-12
Costa Rican president says biodiversity conservation promotes economy
Preserving biodiversity will not only ease climate crisis but become "a win for people and our economies," President of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado Quesada said Tuesday.
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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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#1306882021-10-12
Yunnan a natural choice for UN event
The richness of Yunnan's biodiversity is believed to be one of the reasons why COP 15, a major United Nations gathering on environmental issues, is being held in the southwestern province.
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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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#1306902021-10-12
UN biodiversity conference is currently underway
The United Nations Biodiversity Conference, known as Cop15, is currently underway. The conference is seen as key to tackling the world’s biodiversity crisis.
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Future city forms centrepiece of UN biodiversity conference
A thought-provoking depiction of biodiversity through architectural and landscape design forms the centrepiece of the Fifteenth United Nations Biological Diversity convention (Cop15), which runs 11-15 October online and the second part as a face-to-face event between 25 April and 8 May 2022.
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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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#1307112021-10-12
India vows to mainstream biodiversity across all sectors
India on Tuesday reiterated its commitment to mainstream biodiversity across all sectors in order to conserve nature, reverse its loss and to secure a healthy planet for the current and future generations.
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#1307122021-10-12
'A drop in the bucket': China's biodiversity fund launch gets lukewarm response
China's launch of a biodiversity fund is a "good start" but falls short of what is needed to help developing countries meet the goals in a global nature pact, environmentalists warned, urging all rich nations to step up ambition and funding.
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#1307182021-10-13
Countries adopt ‘Kunming Declaration’ to tackle biodiversity loss
Some 195 countries have pledged to come up with an “ambitious and transformative” plan to reverse biodiversity loss, saying “strong political momentum” was needed to meet the “defining challenge of this decade”.
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“We must seize this opportunity” – BirdLife CEO speaks at UN Biodiversity Conference
This morning Patricia Zurita, CEO of BirdLife International, delivered an inspirational speech on behalf of international NGOs at the high-level segment of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Conference of the Parties in Kunming, China, where the world’s nations are developing a new global ...
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2021/10/12 UN biodiversity chief on China’s green strategy / China’s showcase in wildlife protection
Chinese President Xi Jinping doubles down on China’s green strategy of balancing growth with ecological protection. What does it mean for biodiversity conservation? Let’s listen to the views of the United Nations chief on #biodiversity efforts.
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#1307222021-10-13
China's experience provides inspiration for biodiversity protection: China Daily
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) that China is hosting in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, from Monday (Oct 11) to Friday has every reason to catch global attention.
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#1307232021-10-13
What have world organizations done to conserve biodiversity?
"It is in a context of crisis that we meet at this segment," said one of the speakers at the Ministerial Plenary Session of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity on Tuesday. Humanity is experiencing unprecedented environmental challenges, ...
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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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#1307252021-10-13
5 Ways the Biden Administration Can Help End the Biodiversity Crisis
October 11 marked the start of a major UN Biodiversity Conference known as “COP15” under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Leaders from around the world have gathered virtually to begin the process of setting new targets and goals for addressing the global biodiversity crisis.
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#1307272021-10-13
Countries adopt 'Kunming Declaration' to protect biodiversity
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.
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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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#1307292021-10-13
Countries Call for Urgent Action on Biodiversity With 'Kunming Declaration'
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.