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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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#1306772021-10-12
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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#1306822021-10-12
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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#1306832021-10-12
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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#1306912021-10-12
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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#1306242021-10-11
Cop26 must not overshadow Kunming: we need joint climate and biodiversity goals
All eyes are on Cop26 in Glasgow since the climate crisis aroused worldwide attention and compelled more than 120 countries to join the unprecedented global Race to Zero carbon-emissions campaign. But the UN biodiversity conference in Kunming, or Cop15, should not be overshadowed, as biodiversit ...
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#1306252021-10-11
COP15: China’s biodiversity goals in focus as Xi Jinping plans summit speech
Chinese President Xi Jinping will speak on Tuesday via video link at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) summit, according to China’s foreign ministry.
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#1306262021-10-11
Greenhouses in Kunming preserve 2,500 rare plants
More than 2,500 rare plants are on display at greenhouses in southwest China's city of Kunming, Yunnan Province. Known as "Kingdom of Plants," the greenhouses are a vivid showcase of how biodiversity has developed in China.
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#1306272021-10-11
Interview: China expected to lead in global biodiversity policy-making -- environmental official
China is expected to lead the world in biodiversity policy-making with its hosting of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), said Moustafa Fouda, biodiversity advisor to the Egyptian environment minister, in a recent in ...
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#1306282021-10-11
COP15: Countries debate new biodiversity plan
The world has not yet been able to safeguard ecosystems that are key to human wellbeing, the UN's biodiversity chief has said.The world has reached "a moment of truth" when it comes to protecting its vital ecosystems, United Nations biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema said on Monday.
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#1306292021-10-11
UN biodiversity chief says world has reached ‘moment of truth’ on conservation
The world has now reached “a moment of truth” when it comes to protecting its vital ecosystems, U.N. biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema said on Monday as talks on a new global conservation treaty got underway in Kunming, China.
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#1306302021-10-11
COP 15 and the climate-biodiversity link
While climate summits attract political, public, and media attention (rightly so), biodiversity summits have failed to garner the attention they deserve. This is unfortunate because both issues are inter-connected: Healthy ecosystems make better carbon sinks to absorb CO2 pollution, and these, i ...
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#1306312021-10-11
Yunnan ideal to host UN biodiversity meeting
Kunming is ready to host the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which will review the "post-2020 global biodiversity framework" to draw a blueprint for biodiversity conservation in the future.
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#1306322021-10-11
Halt destruction of nature or risk ‘dead planet’, leading businesses warn
World leaders must do more to prevent the destruction of nature, business leaders have warned before a summit in China that aims to draw up a draft UN agreement for biodiversity.
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#1306332021-10-11
China eyes biodiversity framework
With most of the world's biodiversity targets for the past decade unfulfilled, the world's eyes are on China for an ambitious and achievable post-2020 global framework as it hosts a key United Nations biodiversity summit.
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#1306352021-10-11
Play and protect: CGTN invites you to join our petition for biodiversity protection
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) is set to begin on Monday in Kunming, the capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
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#1306362021-10-11
What to expect from the UN Conference on Biodiversity in China?
Global leaders gather virtually this week to discuss protecting nature across the planet and experts say there is no time to lose. Animal and plant species are going extinct at a rate not seen in millions of years.
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#1306372021-10-11
(COP15) Explainer: What to expect from first UN global conference on ecological civilization
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, known as COP15, kicked off on Monday in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
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#1306382021-10-11
Xi Focus-Closeup: A president's passion for wildlife, biodiversity
The runaway success story of the summer was the more than 110-day adventure of a herd of 14 wandering wild Asian elephants across Yunnan Province, southwest China. The herd's sojourn gripped the nation and beyond, making the elephants social media superstars. Beyond the headlines, however, this ...
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#1306392021-10-11
Brazil’s indigenous leaders call for stronger rights as UN nature summit begins
“People who exploit and take out resources don’t live (in the Amazon) – but we do. The forest is our home,” said Nemonte Nenquimo, a native leader of Ecuador’s Waorani people.
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#1306402021-10-11
UN Biodiversity Conference: Conservation icon Jane Goodall on her hopes for Earth
International efforts to turn around man's destruction of the environment are due in part to conservationists – among them, the world's leading primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall.
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#1306412021-10-11
Protecting Biodiversity: China's wandering elephants return to natural habitat safely
This UN conference is being held not far from where a herd of wandering elephants captured global attention earlier this year. Their journey highlighted the importance of protecting nature. Our reporter Yang Jinghao looks back at their adventure and talks to experts on how to protect the species.
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#1306422021-10-11
UN Warns of Irreversible Destruction of Nature
Business executives have cautioned that world governments must do more to avoid environmental degradation ahead of a conference in China aimed at drafting a draft UN biodiversity accord.
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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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#1306442021-10-11
In harmony we grow
China has over-fulfilled three of the 2020 global biodiversity targets (the Aichi targets) and made progress on 13 targets, none of which have been fully met globally. Our solutions are in nature.
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#1306452021-10-11
Interview: Danish minister calls for ambition, global cooperation to fight decline in biodiversity
There is urgent need to tackle the challenges of biodiversity conservation, Danish environment minister has said, expecting cooperation with all UN nations, including China, to "halt the decline in biodiversity and make sure we hand over a richer nature to our children."
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#1306462021-10-11
Xi’s Thought on Ecological Civilization inspires world to build harmony among all beings
Representatives from governments, enterprises and non-governmental organizations around the world are gathering for a landmark event hosted by China to negotiate a once-in-a-decade consensus on protecting global biodiversity.
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#1306472021-10-11
In pics: Kunming ready to welcome guests for biodiversity conservation meeting
The COP 15 meeting, which is scheduled to run between Oct. 11 and 15, is ready to welcome guests from home and abroad. The press center for the meeting, which opened on Oct. 9, will serve 853 journalists from 169 media outlets based in China and foreign countries, providing coverage for the even ...
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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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#1306492021-10-11
UN urges nations to spend more on species protection as new pact talks begin
This was said in the wake of biodiversity negotiations to reverse decades of habitat destruction caused by human encroachment and climate change
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#1306502021-10-11
China hosts UN summit seeking to curb crisis of global biodiversity
Countries throughout the world must invest much more and raise the scale and speed of its commitments to protect nature and prevent accelerating species loss, according to a leading United Nations representative on biodiversity.
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#1306512021-10-11
U.N. urges nations to spend more on species protection as new pact talks begin
The global community must invest much more and raise the scale and speed of its pledges to protect nature and prevent species loss, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday on the eve of a new round of global biodiversity talks
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#1306522021-10-11
United Nations Calls On Nations To Ramp Up Funding To Save Biodiversity
United Nations wants world to commit to protecting 30% of their land by 2030, a pledge taken by developed nations of world including the US, the official said.
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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.