The international community should gather more consensus, form greater joint efforts, seize action, seek opportunities and impetus for development from green development, jointly protect the earth home on which human beings rely for survival, and write a new chapter of human beings' pursuit of sustainable development

It is urgent to strengthen global environmental governance, and it is the common expectation of the international community to promote the construction of a prosperous, clean and beautiful world. "The key to achieving the goal of reconciliation between nature and humanity in 2021 is for us to achieve it," he said

Man and nature are a community of common destiny, and if ecology prospers, civilization prospers. The novel coronavirus pneumonia triggered a profound reflection on the relationship between man and nature. Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are a major risk to human survival and development. The results of some scientific research should be paid attention to, for example, "the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has reached the highest level in 3 million years and continues to rise", "2016-2020 is destined to be the warmest five years on record", and so on. In the column "the world in 2021", the economist pointed out that climate change will be the most serious challenge facing this generation, and the world should do its best to deal with it in the new year.

In 2020, the weight of environmental governance on the global agenda will increase significantly. The Moscow declaration of the 12th BRICs leaders' meeting reiterated BRICs' commitment to the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and looked forward to further strengthening cooperation on environmental issues, especially the joint response to the marine plastic waste issue focused on by the BRICs clean river project; the Riyadh summit of G20 leaders launched the global coral reef research and development acceleration plan Taiwan implemented the global initiative to reduce land degradation and enhance terrestrial habitat protection, and reiterated the commitment of Osaka blue ocean vision to reduce the increment of marine plastic waste pollution. At the climate ambition summit, 45 countries made new commitments to enhance national independent contribution, and 24 countries proposed carbon neutral goals Together, the international community is showing more vision for cooperation in addressing global environmental risk challenges.

In 2021, the process of global environmental governance will be marked by a series of important international conferences: the 15th Conference of the parties to the Convention on biological diversity will be held in China, and the "post-2020 global biodiversity framework" will be formulated to set goals and paths for global biodiversity conservation in the next 10 years; the 26th conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change will be held in the UK The 19th meeting of the Implementation Review Committee of the United Nations Convention to combat desertification will be held online, which will continue to work together for global desertification control. In 2021, the international community looks forward to further pooling wisdom and efforts to take important steps towards achieving the goals of the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development.

In the process of global environmental governance, China's role has become increasingly prominent. From the traditional Chinese wisdom of following the law of nature and the unity of man and nature to the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, China has put the construction of ecological civilization in a prominent position and integrated into all aspects and the whole process of China's economic and social development. The value of China's concept is increasingly valued. China has taken strong policy actions to build the world's largest clean energy system, ahead of schedule to achieve the goal of 17% of the protected land area by 2020 proposed by the United Nations Convention on biological diversity. In the past 10 years, the growth area of forest resources has ranked first in the world, long-term and large-scale control of desertification and desertification, effective protection and restoration of wetlands, and the collection and preservation of biological genetic resources has ranked first in the world In front of the world The results of China's practice are generally praised.

China adheres to the concept of community of human destiny, deeply participates in global environmental governance, and jointly explores the road of green sustainable development and global ecological civilization construction with other countries in the world. In 2020, at the UN biodiversity summit and the climate ambition summit, China will put forward important proposals and make major announcements, injecting confidence and strength into global climate governance. China promises to increase its national contribution, adopt more effective policies and measures, strive to reach the peak of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. The central economic work conference has identified "doing a good job in carbon peaking and carbon neutralization" as one of the eight key tasks in 2021, which fully demonstrates China's great power responsibility of being faithful in words and achieving results in deeds.

In 2021, it is the duty of all countries to work together to build a harmonious and beautiful world. "Ecological Civilization: building a community of life on earth" is the theme of the 15th Conference of the parties to the Convention on biological diversity, and also a good message for the future of mankind. The international community should gather more consensus, form greater joint forces, seize action, seek opportunities and driving forces for development from green development, jointly protect the earth's homeland on which human beings rely for survival, and write a new chapter in human's pursuit of sustainable development.

Source: People's daily