Global biodiversity conservation looks forward to opening a new chapter

Global biodiversity conservation looks forward to opening a new chapter

Global biodiversity conservation looks forward to opening a new chapter Global biodiversity conservation looks forward to opening a new chapter

Xinhua News Agency, Paris, September 10 (International Observation) Global biodiversity conservation looks forward to opening a new chapter

(International Observation) Global biodiversity conservation looks forward to opening a new chapter

Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Chen

The 7th World Congress of Nature Conservation came to an end on the 10th in Marseille, France
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The World Conservation Union updated the Red List of Endangered Species during the conference, aiming to make the world more aware of the current status of biodiversity loss and the inseparable connection between the protection of biodiversity and human well-being and economic and social development

Analysts pointed out that an important goal of this conference is to tell the international community which species are threatened, the rate of species extinction and other issues
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The international community expects that the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) to be held in China will open a new chapter in global biodiversity conservation through the formulation of the “Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework”

Increased biodiversity crisis

Increased biodiversity crisis

The World Conservation Union has updated the Red List of Threatened Species this time, assessing the risk of 138,374 species being threatened worldwide, of which 38,543 are threatened with extinction
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Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the Red List of Endangered Species of the World Conservation Union’s Global Species Project, said that global species are extinct at an accelerated rate.

Zhang Xinsheng, president of the World Conservation Union, said that the earth and mother nature on which mankind depends for survival are facing three major crises, namely environmental pollution, climate change, loss of biodiversity and severe degradation of the earth's ecosystem
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It can be said that the degree of biodiversity loss and the degradation of the earth's ecosystem has approached the red line

In a video interview with Xinhua News Agency reporters, French ecologist and professor at the University of Franche-Comté, Patrick Gilodou, said that the birth of species is the result of more than 3 billion years of natural evolution, and the lost species can no longer be reborn
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"Humanity is now facing a rapid loss of biodiversity, which is a very serious problem

Ji Luodu said that the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystems pose a major risk to human survival and development
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The new crown epidemic is a painful lesson, and it is a direct consequence of humans destroying biodiversity in some way

The World Conservation Conference is a four-year institutional meeting of the World Conservation Union, which has an important influence in the field of global environment and development
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The current conference lasted 9 days and adopted a combination of online and offline forms.

All parties look forward to COP15

All parties look forward to COP15

Analysts pointed out that the urgency of global biodiversity conservation is beyond doubt
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Facing the unprecedented challenges of global natural environmental governance, the international community must use unprecedented determination and actions to promote the construction of a beautiful world in which man and nature live in harmony

Bruno Oberle, Director-General of the World Conservation Union, said on the 10th that the decision of this World Conservation Conference will push all parties to take action in response to biodiversity and climate crises in the next crucial decade
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The World Conservation Union Glasgow changes to the General Assembly and the UN COP15 climate "send a strong message: the time is now to make fundamental changes"
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After this World Conference on Nature Conservation, COP15 will be held in Kunming in two phases in October this year and the first half of next year
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French Minister of Ecological Transformation Barbara Pompili said on the 10th that global biodiversity is facing challenges, and the world should actively mobilize through COP15 to further increase the area of ​​global nature reserves, accelerate the sharing of biodiversity knowledge, and ensure a global scale Continue to increase special funds
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Gilodu said that the upcoming COP15 will set new targets for global biodiversity conservation
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He said frankly that through the scientific research of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, various countries and regions have realized that global biodiversity is facing huge problems, and the huge challenge of COP15 lies in How to let people all over the world participate in protection work in their own way
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Augustine Kolan, Director of the IUCN Cameroon Project, said that the threat of global biodiversity is a major concern of the entire international community, because the protection of biodiversity is the hope of curbing climate change
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COP15 is an opportunity for the conservation of biodiversity worldwide.
We will seize the opportunity to showcase the efforts and achievements of the African subregion in this field in the past 10 years, and make suggestions for the formulation of the "Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework" Suggestions
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(Participating reporters: Liu Fang, Xu Yongchun, Yu Shuaishuai, Xiao Yazhuo)