China’s implementation model of international environmental conventions and its application to the Convention on Biological Diversity—Achieving the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets and the role of national parks

doi:10.17520/biods.2024593

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Backgrounds and Aims: From the global perspective, there are common difficulties in achieving the implementation goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity and other international conventions, but China’s implementation model is easy to overcome these difficulties: the central authorities judged “major missions” at the decision-making level, concentrated its strength, and transmits its strength to the execution level through the leading means of planning, assessment, and funds, transforming the objectives of international conventions into national tasks with mechanisms to guarantee their implementation, which has achieved initial results in transforming the international goals of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) into China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals and the construction of China’s national parks.
Challenges: However, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) has yet to achieve a similar transformation. The work of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP) is still similar to the work of departments, rather than the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals that has become a rigid task for most departments and all levels of government.
Recommendations: Relying on the tasks of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and related working mechanisms, it is possible to transform most of the action targets in the KMGBF and NBSAP into rigid tasks of local party committees and governments at all levels and drive the participation of all sectors of society. In the above, refining and optimizing the work of “Comprehensive efforts will be made to develop the national park-based system of protected areas” is the most convenient to complete the related goals of in situ protection, fair benefit sharing and mainstreaming, so as to reflect the advantages of China’s implementation model in the completion of the KMGBF targets.

Key words: Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the China’s system, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP), the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, national park

Tian Zhiqi, Su Yang. China’s implementation model of international environmental conventions and its application to the Convention on Biological Diversity—Achieving the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets and the role of national parks[J]. Biodiv Sci, 2025, 33(3): 24593.

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