On August 30, Huang Runqiu, President of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) and Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, had a video meeting with Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The two sides had in-depth exchanges on the issues of preparation for the second part of COP15, the High-Level Segment and consultations on the “Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)”.

Huang Runqiu expressed thanks to the ES and the Secretariat for their strong support to the preparatory work for the second part of COP15, stressing that China would continue to play the role of the Presidency, work closely with the Secretariat, the Bureau and other Parties, and strive to reach an ambitious, balanced and practical GBF, to make COP15 a milestone conference.