Part two of COP15 to be convened in Canada

A decision has been jointly made by the Chinese and Canadian governments and the Presidium that the second part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) will be relocated from Kunming, China, to Montreal, Canada, on 5 to 17 December, with the meeting’s theme and basics remaining unchanged.

“China would like to emphasize its continued strong commitment, as COP president, to work with all Parties and stakeholders to ensure the success of the second part of COP15, including the adoption of an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework, and to promote its delivery throughout its presidency,” read a notice issued by the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment on June 21.

Part one of COP15 closed last October in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. China granted 1.5 billion yuan (about 233 million U.S. dollars) to establish a Kunming Biodiversity Fund to support biodiversity protection in developing countries.

The first part also saw the adoption of the Kunming Declaration, where Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) committed to negotiating an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework that can bend the curve of biodiversity loss.

Online sources; Trans-editing by Wang Shixue