SECTORAL POLICIES / Biodiversity

EU and China pledge to step up action to tackle biodiversity crisis

Brussels, 28/04/2021 (Agence Europe)

At the 8^th EU-China Ministerial Environment Policy Dialogue on Tuesday 27 April, Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius and Chinese Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu pledged to step up action to protect, conserve and restore biodiversity and ecosystems, the European Commission said the same day.

These commitments were made in anticipation of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, originally scheduled to take place in...