Ecological civilization: * * Building the life identity of the earth.

The first phase of the 15th conference of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) opened in Kunming, Yunnan Province on June 10. 10 On June 55438+05, the world-renowned 2020 United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (Phase I) came to an end in Kunming, Yunnan.

The conference will be held online and offline from 1 1 to 15, covering high-level meetings, ecological civilization forums and other activities. At the same time, the Kunming Declaration: Towards Ecological Civilization, * * * Building a Whole Life on Earth * * * will be released. The declaration will call on all parties to take action and respond to the call of * * * to build life on earth, curb the loss of biodiversity, enhance human well-being and achieve sustainable development.

"Biodiversity" is no longer just an environmental protection concept, but an isomorphism of life involving many aspects of nature and culture.

Biodiversity is a broad concept to describe the degree of natural diversity, including landscape diversity, ecosystem diversity, species diversity and genetic diversity. In recent years, biodiversity also involves "people" and culture. The concept of ecological civilization began to be integrated into the protection mechanism.

20 19 In September, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity jointly issued the theme of COP 15: "Ecological Civilization: * * Building a Unity of Life on Earth * * *". This theme aims at promoting the construction of global ecological civilization, emphasizing that man and nature are the same living body, respecting, adapting to and protecting nature, striving to realize the sustainable utilization and benefit sharing of biodiversity by 2050, and realizing the beautiful vision of "harmony between man and nature".

On May 22nd, 2020, Yunnan Province released the first white paper on biodiversity in China: Biodiversity in Yunnan.

At the same time, the "Proposal on Biodiversity Protection" was issued. In order to cope with the interference and threats from land use change, over-exploitation and utilization of biological resources, climate change, environmental pollution and alien species invasion, the proposal calls for "Yunnan is the province with the richest biodiversity in China, an important treasure house of biodiversity in China and an ecological security barrier in southwest China. Protecting biodiversity is the responsibility of the whole society. We need everyone to take action, starting from me, starting from now, and starting from the little things around us. "

From 2065438+65438+1 October1in 2009, the Regulations on Biodiversity Protection in Yunnan Province came into effect. This is the first local regulation on biodiversity protection in China.