Biodiversity is the basis for human living and development, and also an important part of the construction of ecological civilization and an important grasp to promote high-quality development. Despite a lot of work by the international community and governments, the 2010 biodiversity conservation targets have not been achieved globally, and progress towards the Aichi Targets is not optimistic. The CBD COP 15 will be held in Kunming, China in 2020, the progress and lessons learned from the implementation of the Aichi Targets over the past ten years will be summarized, with a focus on developing a biodiversity conservation agenda for the next ten years, a post-2020 biodiversity conservation framework. For China, it is an excellent opportunity to participate in global governance and also a platform to showcase China’s achievements and plans of the convention. China should play an active role in developing post-2020 biodiversity conservation framework. China may be uniquely placed to foster a powerful outcome and follow-up for the CBD COP-15, contribute Chinese wisdom to the global biodiversity conservation.

　　The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) was founded in 1992 as a high-level international advisory body with the approval of the Government of China. Over its 25-year evolution, the CCICED has developed a unique approach to policy research on environment and development which involves close cooperation between Chinese and global leaders. Moreover, the CCICED is characterized by a privileged channel to China’s top decision-makers.

　　In 2018, CCICED launched a Special Policy Study (SPS) on post 2020 global biodiversity conservation. Aiming to provide suggestions for the formation of post 2020 global biodiversity framework as well as China’s role in hosting the COP 15 through reviewing and analyzing key biodiversity conservation issues both in China and globally. The work is carried out under general guidance of Task Force 1 (TF1) Co-chairs Xie Zhenhua and Catherine McKenna.The major research tasks include: post 2020 biodiversity conservation framework, establishment of China’s national park system, successful examples of biodiversity conservation in China, and suggestions for the success of CBD COP 15 in Beijing. The core team members are listed in the Annex.

　　MA Keping: Responsible for the post-2020 biodiversity framework

　　GAO Jixi: Responsible for sorting out performance experience and Chinese cases

　　Arthur Hanson: Responsible for coordinating biodiversity related global environmental agreements

　　LI Lin: Responsible for political relevance

　　The project intends to comprehensively review and sort out the progress of the implementation of the global and China's biodiversity conservation strategy, diagnose and identify key issues of global biodiversity conservation, and guide the successful implementation of global biodiversity conservation, combined with China's biodiversity conservation work. Based on experiences, it will suggest a blueprint for the post-2020 Biodiversity Framework; summarize the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Strategy Safeguards Mechanism, provide a strategic response to the implementation of the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework and achieve conservation goals, fulfill the host country’s obligations and actively promote the adoption of the “post-2020 biodiversity framework” and the adoption of a new round of protection goals. Strategy/policy output will include the post-2020 Biodiversity Framework, the strategy for development and management of National Park in China.

　　Through two years of efforts, the research team submitted targeted and operational policy recommendations for the post-2020 biodiversity conservation framework, summarized a series of Chinese cases such as the Ecological Conservation Redline (ECR), and several suggestions for political mobilization. In addition to continuing research related to the biodiversity conservation agenda for the next ten years, the research team will focus on studies of the novel coronavirus and biodiversity, post-2020 compliance mechanisms, spreading China's experience and models, and collaborations with other relevant research groups and projects, to provide scientific support for the formulation of the post-2020 biodiversity conservation framework and successful opening of the COP15.