On Saturday, the high-level portion of the second day of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) conference came to an end in Montreal, Canada.

According to Huang Runqiu, the COP15’s president and China’s minister of ecology and environment, the meeting significantly aided the COP15’s negotiation process.

While holding the COP15 chair, China “will continue to play its role to help generate synergy from all parties, close gaps, and build consensus to realise an ambitious, realistic, and balanced framework that the international community has been looking for,” he added.

At the high-level segment’s opening ceremony earlier on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping stated, “We must work together to promote harmonious coexistence between man and Nature, construct a community of all life on the Earth, and create a clean and beautiful environment for us all.

Huang claims that Xi’s speech is motivating for the negotiations. The post-2020 global biodiversity framework benefited from the active participation of 190 representatives. They showed a strong political desire to see it adopted and put into practise.

Source: Prnewswire