Ministry of Ecology and Environment: The second phase of COP15 will be held

The reporter learned from the regular press conference of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on November 28 that the second phase of COP15 will be held in Montreal, Canada, where the secretariat is located, from December 7 to 19, and China will continue to serve as the chair of COP15 and lead the substantive and political affairs
of the conference.

Cui Shuhong, director of the Department of Natural Ecological Protection of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the Chinese government will send a Chinese delegation composed of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the People's Government of Yunnan Province, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Water Resources, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Hong Kong SAR Government and other departments to attend the meeting
.
At present, the preparations for the meeting are basically in place
.
At present, China has extended invitations
to 195 Parties, two observer countries at the ministerial level and heads of 132 international organizations and institutions.
As of 15 November, ministers from 123 Parties, 1 observer country (United States) and heads of 61 international organizations and agencies had confirmed their participation
.
It is hoped that the second phase of COP15 will successfully adopt the long-awaited "post-2020 global biodiversity framework" that is both ambitious and pragmatic and balanced by the international community, and set goals, clarify the path and draw a blueprint
for future global biodiversity conservation.

In October last year, the first phase of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) was successfully held in Kunming, China, with more than 5,000 participants from more than 150 Parties and more than 30 international institutions and organizations, and Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the Leaders' Summit virtually and delivered a keynote speech, announcing a series of pragmatic and powerful host country measures such as China's first funding for the establishment of the Kunming Biodiversity Fund and the official establishment of the first batch of national parks
。 The meeting adopted the Kunming Declaration, injecting strong political impetus
into the global biodiversity governance process.