LONDON/GENEVA, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Crucial UN biodiversity meetings in Geneva on a global deal to better protect nature that is due for approval later this year in China's Kunming are moving in the right direction, said the executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on Tuesday. After negotiations wrapped up, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema told Xinhua via video link that she is optimistic the post-2020 global biodiversity framework will be ratified at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, after several delays due to COVID-19.
BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The city of Kunming in southwest China, hailed by many as one of the world's most biologically diversified places, is in the global spotlight for hosting the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15).
“The international community must enhance cooperation, build consensus and pool strength to build a community of all life on Earth,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a keynote speech. He delivered the speech Tuesday at the Leaders’ Summit of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) held in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan province.
KUNMING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- With the official designation of China's first group of national parks Tuesday, a national parks system is taking shape in the world's most populous country as its latest effort to promote human-nature harmony and biodiversity conservation.
