Original Title: International Sharp Review丨Building a Community of Life on Earth, “China Proposal”, Pointing out the Direction and Contributing Forces
“Protecting biodiversity helps maintain the earth’s homeland and promote the sustainable development of mankind.” On the 12th, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the 15th Conference of the Parties Leaders Summit of the Convention on Biological Diversity and delivered a keynote speech on the 12th. . President Xi systematically explained a series of major issues such as what kind of home earth should be built, how to build it, and how China should do it. He pointed out the direction for building a community of life on earth, contributed China’s wisdom and strength, and demonstrated the responsibility and responsibility of a great country.
Biodiversity is the foundation of human survival and development. However, the current earth’s ecosystem is increasingly entering the danger zone. A related UN report pointed out that biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, and “time is running out.” For mankind, “what kind of community of life on earth to build together” has become an urgent and must-answer question.
At the first global conference held by the United Nations on the theme of ecological civilization, the world heard the “Chinese answer”. That is: to build a home on the earth where man and nature live in harmony, economy and environment advance together, and all countries in the world develop together. In order to achieve this goal, President Xi further proposed to coordinate the relationship between man and nature with the construction of ecological civilization as a guide; to promote sustainable global development with green transformation as the driving force; to promote social fairness and justice with the welfare of the people as the center; to be based on international law , To maintain a fair and reasonable international governance system.
It can be seen that these four propositions include both goals and methods, as well as rules to be followed. They are pragmatic and focus on the future development of mankind. They are the wisdom that China provides to global environmental governance based on its own experience, and it has planned a path for promoting the joint construction of a community of life on earth by all countries.
The outside world has noticed that in his speech, President Xi mentioned the story of Yunnan elephants traveling north and returning some time ago. This is a typical case of fruitful results in China’s biodiversity conservation. In China, biodiversity conservation has become a national strategy. In the past ten years, China’s forest resources have increased by more than 70 million hectares, ranking first in the world. China creatively proposed and established an ecological protection red line system, which was successfully selected into the United Nations 15 excellent cases.
More than that. Regarding the problem of how the economy and the environment can work together to advance together, the Chinese leaders emphasized the transformation of ecological advantages into development advantages, so that the green waters and green mountains can produce huge benefits, and the solution was given. This is especially significant for the global economic recovery under the epidemic. The British “Nature” magazine once pointed out that China has rich experience in balancing economic development and controlling the loss of species and ecosystems, which has brought important benefits to the world’s biodiversity work.
To promote the protection of global biodiversity, China also has actions. At the summit, President Xi announced that China will take the lead in investing 1.5 billion yuan to establish the Kunming Biodiversity Fund to support biodiversity conservation in developing countries; accelerate the construction of a natural reserve system with national parks as the main body; The implementation plan for carbon peaking in key areas and industries and a series of support and safeguard measures have been released one after another, and the “1+N” policy system of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality has been established…
These new measures show that China is constantly moving towards the goal of building a beautiful China with practical actions, injecting more momentum into promoting sustainable global development. Elizabeth Murema, Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, commented that “China’s work in the past few decades is representative of our model of change.”
“People live up to the green hills, and green hills live up to them. Ecological civilization is the historical trend of the development of human civilization.” Chairman Xi’s thesis speaks out the true meaning of building a community of life on earth. As an important participant, contributor and leader in the construction of global ecological civilization, China will use this conference as an opportunity to promote the development of a “post-2020 global biodiversity framework” and make more contributions to the construction of a community of life on earth. “China Contribution”.
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