On September 29, 2020, the Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences invited Mr. David Cooper, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on biological diversity, to hold an online report meeting to interpret the contents of the fifth edition of biodiversity Outlook (hereinafter referred to as "Outlook") with domestic scientists. More than 200 people from universities and scientific research institutes attended the report meeting. The report meeting was chaired by MA Keping, deputy director and Secretary General of the Committee and researcher of the Institute of Botany.
Prof. MA Keping reviewed the recent important events related to biodiversity protection in China, and introduced the special research progress of the position paper "building an earth life community: China in action" jointly issued by the Ministry of foreign affairs and the Ministry of ecological environment and the China International Cooperation Committee on environment and development "global biodiversity protection after 2020".
David Cooper especially thanked China for its outstanding contribution to biodiversity conservation. He gave a detailed introduction to the fifth edition of outlook and shared some successful examples. He pointed out that in order to achieve the harmonious coexistence between man and nature, we need to realize the transformation in eight aspects: land and forest transformation, sustainable food system transformation, sustainable freshwater transformation, sustainable city and infrastructure transformation. David Cooper also thanked China for its outstanding contributions to biodiversity conservation and looked forward to the successful holding of the 15th Conference of the parties to the Convention on biological diversity in Kunming, Yunnan Province.
Prof. Yang Rui of Tsinghua University, researcher Gao Jixi, director of the satellite environmental application center of the Ministry of ecology and environment, and associate prof. Shen Xiaoli of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences made brief comments respectively.
Prof. MA Keping said that the fifth edition of outlook not only evaluated the past decade, but also summarized the experience that can be used for reference and the path of future efforts. The two key words "sustainable" and "transformation" are very important to the process of biodiversity conservation in the next decade.
