CBD CoP 15 in China (Based on

ZOU Yueyu & XU Jing from MEE) ZHU Chunquan

IUCN China Office

Cambridge, UK, 12th Feb. 2019

CHINA AS HOST COUNTRY

• Demonstration effect: the construction of ecological civilization in China could be a role model of sustainable development globally, similar role as China played in the frontier of climate change

• Experience sharing: bringing up experience and lesson learnt, foster new development idea and governance pattern

• Substantial contribution: sharing resource with other developing countries, including financial and technical resource

• Collective leadership : building the widest coalition possible, coordinating other leading countries, international organizations and social entities to make concerted effort, sending a clear signal to the world to arise political will

TRANSFORMAT I VE

MODE OF GOVERNANCE

NEW TARGETS

MORE SYNERGY

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

COMMUNICATION

FINANCIAL MECHANISM

MAINSTREAMING

Multi-level governance

Business engagement

SDGs

Climate Change

National socio-economic plan

Quantitative Bottom-up

Focused, limited

MEAs

Supporting mechanism

New mechanism

Resource mobilization

Public awareness Political

willingness

壹1999

2002

2006

2010 UNFC

CC

GPA

GEF

2017

Montr

eal

protoc

ol

UNCCD

International conferences China hosted in

environmental fieldCOP11 of the Montreal Protocol on

Substances that Deplete the Ozone

Layer, Beijing

Second Assembly of the Global

Environment Facility (GEF),

Beijing

The Second Intergovernmental Review Meeting

of the Global Program of Action for the

Protection of the Marine Environment from

Land-based Activities of UNEP (GPA IGR-2)

was held in BeijingThe 14th session of the AWG-KP(Ad hoc

Working Group on Long-term Cooperative

Action under the Convention) and the 12th

session of the AWG-LCA (Ad-Hoc Working

Group on Further Commitments for Annex I

Parties under the Kyoto Protocol)COP 13 of UN Convention to Combat

Desertification will be held

in Ordos, Inner Mongolia in September 2017

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PROCESS OFAPPLICATION

COP13

2016

COP12Secretariat of CBD invited China to

consider the possibility of hosting

COP 15 in 2020

Plan of application was prepared by

MEP, circulated to relevant Ministries

for comments and then approved by

the State Council

COP13 announced COP15 will take place

in China in 2020

May 2016, China announces bid for

COP15 at the first meeting of the

Subsidiary Body on Implementation

(SBI 1) in Montreal, Canada

Since 1993 China has became a member of CBD. COP 15

of 2020 will be the 1st time for China to host the CBD COP

SBI-1

PROGRESS OF PREPARATIONEarly stage preparation prior COP 14 ( Jan. 2017- Oct.

2018)

Organizational matters:

Drawing on the experiences of hosting: COP 11 of the

Montreal Protocol, 2nd GEF Assembly, UNCCD COP

13…

Learning from previous host countries of CBD COP:

Japan, South Korea, Germany… by reviewing host

country report and other sources of information

Visiting COP 10 venue and holding discussions with

MOEJ, Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City governments

Exchanging ideas with CBD Secretariat staff,

international organizations and experts

Cost-effective & Outcome-oriented

Organizational

matters:

Possible venue:

International

Conference Center,

Beijing

✓ Cost-effective &

Outcome

oriented

✓ Green & Low-

carbon

✓ Smart & efficient

services

Cost-effective & Outcome-oriented

Organizational

matters:

Preparatory

Committee Chair: Vice Premier of the State Council

Deputy Chair: Minister of Environmental

Protection, Vice Minister of Foreign

Affairs, Deputy Secretary-General of the

State Council

Member: 25 ministries and departments

including Ministry of Natural Resources,

State Forestry and Grassland

Administration, Ministry of Agriculture

and Rural Affairs, etc..

Base on the mechanism of the

National Committee for Biodiversity

Conservation (NCBC) :

Report to Vice-Premier

Supported by the

Municipal Government

of host city, and

Expert consultancy

group consisted by

national and

international experts

PROGRESS OF PREPARATION

Early stage preparation prior COP 14 ( Jan.

2017-Oct. 2018)

Post-2020 Framework development:

Engage in international discussions, including

CBD and IPBES Meetings, Bogis Bossey Dialogue

for Transformational Change on Biodiversity, UK

CCI Expert Workshop, Triparty dialogues between

China, Japan and Korea…

Carry out related studies, Chinese Research

Institutions and CCICED Special Policy Study

Organize dialogues/workshops in China at

different levels

A Transparent & inclusive process

Partners

engaged:

National governmental bodies (Central and local

departments)

Research institutions (Chinese Academy of

Sciences, universities…)

Civil Society (NGOs like WWF, TNC, CI, WRI,

IISD,WCS, NRDC and Chinese NGOs …)

Parties of CBD

International organizations and entities (IUCN,

UNEP-WCMC, Youth…)

弎What contributions

can China make?Capability of long-vision planning

Experience and lesion learnt in ecological governance: share

policy tools such as Ecological functional zoning, ecological

red lining, ecological compensation, ecology-based poverty

alleviation,…

Setting up models and standards by its own social and

economic development: green Belt and Road initiative, green

urbanization

Join hands with other parties to help renewing/improving the

financial mechanism and technical cooperation mechanism of

CBD …….

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