COP15 pavilion highlights China's biodiversity efforts
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The 15th meeting of the United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity, or COP15, kicked off on Wednesday with summit leaders calling for international cooperation to tackle rapidly declining nature and species extinction worldwide. As the president of COP15, China's achievements and practices on biodiversity conservation are being shared with members and participants of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) through the launch of the China Pavilion in Montreal.
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With the theme of "Ecological Civilization: Building a shared future for all life on earth", the launch of the pavilion attracted many visitors during the global meeting of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which aims to adopt the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), a roadmap to guide action to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 and achieve recovery by 2050.
In his welcoming remarks, Huang Runqiu, president of COP15, and China's minister of ecology and environment, highlighted the results of China's biodiversity conservation over the past 10 years.
According to Huang, China has improved institutional mechanisms and policies to promote the mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation. In the past decade, more than 20 laws and regulations related to biodiversity, such as the Forest Law and the Wildlife Protection Law, have been formulated and revised, and the list of wild animals and plants under national protection has been changed.
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"Our '14th Five-Year Plan' and the outline of long-term goals for 2035 will implement major biodiversity conservation projects and build a biodiversity conservation network as important contents," Huang told the audience at the exhibition.
