COP16: South Africa Highlights Four Key Issues, Attracting Attention

At the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) negotiation meeting, discussions among the parties were highly active, with delegates eager to implement the global biodiversity agreement reached under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).

Narend Singh, Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment of South Africa, delivered a speech summarizing South Africa’s key issues at COP16. He highlighted four points covering resource mobilization, digital sequence information (DSI) on genetic resources, biodiversity and climate change, technical and scientific cooperation, and technology transfer. He elaborated on these topics from background to ideas and progress, drawing significant attention from participants.