Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for efforts to build a community of all life on Earth at a key UN meeting to enhance global biodiversity protection.
-- World leaders, international organizations and experts have warned of alarming biodiversity loss and the urgent need to come up with ambitious and effective solutions to guide global cooperation on the matter.
"Biodiversity makes Earth full of vigor and vitality, and lays the foundation for human survival and development," said Xi. "We risk repeating the failures of the last decade," said Mrema."Our commitments must be translated into effective policies and concrete actions." "We need to speed up efforts to foster a green way of development and secure a win-win of economic growth and environmental protection," he said, noting that a sound ecology and environment is both a natural asset and an economic one.
Yolanda Fernandez Lommen, the Asian Development Bank's country director for China, said China is a mega biodiverse country, and all the targets, plans and policies that Xi announced will contribute not only to China, but to the rest of the world.
To achieve its carbon peak and neutrality targets, China will release implementation plans for peaking carbon dioxide emissions in key areas and sectors as well as a series of supporting measures, Xi said.
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