On December 9th, 2020, the seminar on " the Sharm El-Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People” was organized by the Office of the Executive Committee for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15). LIU Ning, Executive Deputy Director of the Office delivered the opening remarks. And LI Junsheng, the Leader of High-Level Segment Team of the Office, hosted the seminar. 24 stakeholders, including UN Environment, CBD’s Secretariat, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, World Wide Fund for Nature, SEE Foundation, Paradise International Foundation and Institute for Sustainable Global Environment and others, were invited to participate in the seminar.
The Sharm El-Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People is an initiative spearheaded by the governments of China and Egypt, with support of the CBD’s Secretariat. The purpose of the Action Agenda is to build an online voluntary non-state actors commitments platform and engagement with local government, social organizations, enterprises and other stakeholders on the proactive actions to reduce the drivers of biodiversity loss. The Action Agenda has received responses from stakeholders since it was launched during CBD COP14, which promoting the process of global biodiversity conservation.
At the seminar, LIU Ning, Executive Deputy Director, first of all, expressed the gratitude to all participants for their strong support for biodiversity work. He pointed out that biodiversity conservation is closely related to everyone's life, which require all efforts to protect the earth’s homeland. The in-depth exchanges of ideas focused on how to encourage stakeholder to make commitments. The participants shared their respective experiences in the field of biodiversity one by one, and expressed their strong willingness to join in biodiversity conservation and push forward to the Action Agenda.
The seminar enhanced the stakeholders’ confidences to contribute to biodiversity conservation, gathered their consensus, and mobilized them to actively participate in CBD COP15, which adding more efforts for the Action Agenda. After this seminar, the Office of the Executive Committee will strengthen communication with the Secretariat of CBD, keep close contacts with stakeholders, in order to jointly promote the Action Agenda.
