The Kunming Declaration

The Kunming Declaration will help us not just to generate ambition in the complex negotiations ahead but will help enormously in narrowing the action gap between climate and nature conservation. We need a more integrated approach. COP15 and the Kunming Declaration will help us move the integration agenda.

Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and chairperson of the Washington-based Global Environment Facility

From October 11 to 15, 2021, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) was held in Kunming, Yunnan Province, at which the Kunming Declaration was adopted.

A report released by the United Nations Environment Programme shows that among the eight million plant and animal species on the planet, approximately one million are facing the threat of extinction. Many of these species will become extinct within a few decades, more than at any time in human history.

The Kunming Declaration was adopted by more than 100 countries and called for urgent and comprehensive actions to achieve transformational changes in all economic sectors around the world, reflecting the political will to resolve the biodiversity crisis. Starting in Kunming, global biodiversity governance will set off anew.

by Dong Fang/china Pictorial Monkeys in Xiangguqing Yunnan Black and White Snub-nosed Monkey National Park in the Baima Snow Mountain Nature Reserve.