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Xi Focus: Xi addresses opening ceremony of high-level segment of COP15 part 2 Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses via videol

Braving freezing rain, activists and protesters on Thursday dropped 80-foot banners reading Biodiversity versus Billionaires, visible from Montreals Palais des Congres where world leaders are meeting for a major environmental meeting -- a United Nations Biodiversity Conference known as COP15.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday evening addressed via videolink the opening ceremony of the high-level segment of the second part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), held in Canadas Montreal.

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, apostolic nuncio to Canada, said at COP15 that the global deal under negotiation here in Montreal must address the drivers of biodiversity loss and uphold the rights of Indigenous peoples.

The address President Xi Jinping made via video link at the opening ceremony of the High-Level Segment of the second part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on Thursday shows the great significance China attaches to the event and the cause it represents.

/PRNewswire/ -- The importance of biodiversity in human development can be gauged by the fact that over half of the worlds GDP comes from natural resources...

Address by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People’s Republic of China At the Opening of the High-Level Segment of Part II of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

MONTREAL, Canada (CMC) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it is committed to increasing its nature-positive finance and will continue its process to develop a green finance target. ...

The goal of the coalition is to advocate for agreed common SIDS priorities and needs such as greater means of implementing biodiversity objectives

Brazil led a walkout from COP15 negotiations earlier this week. It's since returned to the table, but Leonardo Cleaver de Athayde, Brazil's lead climate negotiator, says it's yet to see counterproposals that address the concerns of developing nations.