On the sidelines of International Water Week in Asia (see EUROPE 13485/34), representatives of the European Union, its Member States and China met on 23 and 24 September to discuss priorities for cooperation in the water sector in the framework of the China-Europe Water Platform (CEWP) and the EU-China water cooperation project.
Over the coming months, concrete activities will take place in areas such as river basin management and the circular water economy.
A few days later, on 27 September, the EU ambassador to China, Jorge Toledo, met Vice-Minister Zhao Yingmin of the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and the Environment to discuss ways in which the two parties could work together to ensure the success of forthcoming major international meetings, such as the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP16 in Cali and COP29 in Baku.
Mr Toledo expressed the EU’s expectations, reiterating its commitment to finding common and coherent solutions to “the triple global crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution”. (Original version in French by Pauline Denys)