Kunming: The second phase of the United Nations’ negotiations over the world’s new biodiversity conservation goals through 2030, known as COP 15, has been relocated from the Chinese city of Kunming to Montreal, Canada according to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. The meeting is scheduled for Dec 5 to 17.
The decision was reached following joint consultation between the Chinese and Canadian governments and secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, a media release from the ministry said on Tuesday.
Montreal is where the secretariat is based.
With the COVID-19 pandemic control situations home and abroad fully considered, the arrangement was made to “accelerate the global biodiversity conservation process”, it said.
“China will continue to work as president of COP 15,” it said, adding the theme of the gathering and its logo will be kept unchanged.
The Chinese government has always attached great importance to biodiversity conservation. While playing its role as host of COP 15, China, together with other parties, will endeavor to see an ambitious and realistic post-2020 global biodiversity framework reached at the meeting, the release read.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
