 cultural heritage aspects as well. Next slide please. So we also, as I mentioned, we see agro-biodiversity as a key component of our transformation towards more sustainable food systems in Switzerland. I think it's interesting to know that this question is actually also anchored in our constitution. The Swiss agriculture is not just supposed to contribute to our food security and a certain degree of food sovereignty, but it's also supposed to do that while preserving natural resources. And this includes agro-biodiversity. The way we see it, we want to conserve this biodiversity through sustainable use. It is indeed for these sustainable food systems, we need a large variety of crops for food and agriculture. And this is anchored in many, many different both strategic and policy instruments that we have in Switzerland. We have a new sustainable development strategy where this transformation of food systems is anchored and where agro-biodiversity is an important part. On the picture with the plate and the fork, it's the picture that illustrates our new agricultural policy 2022 plus. And there again, it's an important part of it. That's at the strategic level, but also then we have a diversity of measures and policy level, for example, direct payments that are explicitly aimed to contribute to agricultural biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. And of course, we also have a very good gene bank in Changin. And how do we do this? We tried to do this the Swiss way. This means a multi-stakeholder approach. We really tried to engage policy makers, but also the industry. It's heavily on board as well as civil society. In this respect, the national food pathways following the UN food system summits have been a really interesting first step that has been followed, for example, by our citizen assembly discussing these questions. And we also tried to connect the different levels. For those of you based in Switzerland, you have the local level, we have the cantonal level that has an important role to play the national level, but also the different levels within the food system. I mentioned before we have an imperative of trying to ensure food security, but we also have to do this preserving natural resources. And so, agro-biodiversity is a key link to connect these different levels. Next slide, please. So, how do we do this then internationally? This connects now to the FAO and to the CBD. As was mentioned with the Missimedo Agriculture is indeed a driver of biodiversity loss. And therefore, it has to be a solution to it. And we believe that agriculture is indeed a solution to this biodiversity loss. Agriculture and its principles are a crucial approach to this, taking into account all possible aspects of biodiversity and ecosystems. And this is reflected in our international engagement for agro-biodiversity and agro-ecology. So, we are a member of the Agro-ecology Coalition. We are active and support FAO's work in these questions, for example, through the Commission on Genetic Resources, through its strategy on mainstreaming biodiversity, and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Switzerland is also a member of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People. Next slide, please. So, back to COP 15, after a bit this overview of the situation since then. We see it, of course, as a key moment for biodiversity in agriculture. The negotiation of the post-2020 GBF will be an essential step, I think, in not just reversing biodiversity loss, but going beyond. We believe it's important to consider the specificities of biodiversity for food and agriculture, and link these different objectives, as I mentioned, before food security, reversing biodiversity loss, etc. We would like to push for ambitious conservation targets and through sustainable use of these biodiversity. For those of you who follow the CBD a bit more closely, it's the famous target 10 of the post-2020 GBF, and this we would like to see. We believe that agro-ecology has an important role to play in fostering the sustainable use of biodiversity. I would like to make a small digression on the soils. Let's not forget about them. They host more than one quarter of the world's biodiversity, and it's important that we don't forget their importance. Last but not least, we believe strongly that the different instruments available, the different mechanisms, for example, the International Treaty, the CBD, also CITES, they need to be really mutually supportive and collaborate together for a successful global biodiversity framework. That's very briefly the Swiss perspective, and I'll be available throughout the webinar for questions if needed. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you very much. It's very nice last slide by biodiversity in potatoes. But thank you indeed for presenting the Swiss perspective and why agro-biodiversity is a key component of the transformation of our ecosystem in Switzerland, reminding us that this is an anchored in the constitution, and then how it is done, how you do it, the Swiss way as you described. And then, of course, presenting the importance of agriculture being part of the solution in terms of biodiversity loss. And then your ambition for COV-15, which you describe as a key moment for biodiversity and agriculture. So thank you very much, Ms. Fanielle, and of course, we are delighted that you are there and willing to engage. Now, we will make another attempt to connect Mr. Yu. Mr. Yu, are you connected? Yes, can you hear me? Fantastic. Please, we are delighted to have you, Mr. Yu, and please, you have the floor. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Director, for your introduction, also for your immigration to this important event. Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to meet online to discuss the important issue of biodiversity conservation. As COV-15 President said, China is grateful to the FLO Dancing Office in Geneva for organizing this important meeting to provide a good opportunity for us to exchange ideas to FLO for its positive role in promoting the coordination of biodiversity conservation and the economic and social developments as to all stakeholders for your ongoing concerns and the support to global biodiversity governance and COV-15 related work and the convention. Biodiversity is a foundation for the human survival and development and is closely linked to our food and security, nutrition and health, culture and civilization, rich and varied crops, the left-hand products and aquatic products provide us with a balanced and nutrient-rich diverse agro-ecosystem. Every culture left in every culture, techniques, diverse cultures and agricultural policies are all an example of how it has learned to use biodiversity sustainability and live in harmony with nature and reveal games of wisdom. There are significant components of human civilization and cultural heritage. The first train of global biodiversity laws has yet to be de-quadrated and the governance of biodiversity has a long way to go. Within the theme of global challenges such as the biodiversity laws, climate change, environmental pollution and food security, we as a human being share a common future. It is a general consensus of the international community to concern biodiversity, promote the sustainable use and benefits of sharing of the biological resources carried and reversed to reach the loss of biodiversity and advance the United Nations 2030 agenda for sustainable development. China plays a high premium on biodiversity and logical environmental governance. We adhere to the concept of systematic governance, promotes carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth in a coordinated manner and coordinates the relationship among biodiversity, conservation, climate change, mitigation and adaptation. Environmental pollution controls food security and human well-being. China has validated biodiversity and climate change governance to nature strategy slowly incorporated them into all face effects of the country's economic and social development and prioritized them to promote ecological civilization construction achieve high quality development. China has established leading systems such as carbon peak and carbon neutrality, leading groups and the China national committee for biodiversity conservation and supervision mechanism like the central ecological and environmental protection factory pack rates to advance the significant ecological and environmental production tasks in sustainable organized and efficient manner. China is an activist in the governance of biodiversity. We have built a nationals special development and the protection strategies to coordinate the layout of production leaving and the ecological space. We implement a system of ecological protection right lines that effectively concerns more than 25 percent of the nation's land area. We strive to create a protected area framework with a focus on national parks. We carry out a 10-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River continuously strengthen the investigation, collection, protection and utilization of each agricultural forest and grassland resources updates or introduce a series of laws and regulations in an effort to foster conservation and sustainable utilization of ecosystem species and genetic resources. China concentrously undertakes its international obligations and taking international responsibilities come new straight to its development stage. China actively explores the synergy of sustainable development both such as biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction. After years of practices, China has developed a biodiversity conservation system based on government's guidance, cooperates with responsibility and extensive public participation resulting in mutual beneficial outcomes of biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and economic and social development. China has been upholding a concept of community with a shared future for men can actively engage in international cooperation on biodiversity conservation and implemented a way of cooperation project and activities with other countries and the framework of Barrett and the Royal Global Development Initiative and the South-South Corporation providing support to the ecological conservation of developing countries. Ladies and gentlemen, last October the first phase of COVID-19 was held in Kunming China with over 5,000 delegates from more than 150 parties and more than 30 international institutions and organizations. President Xi Jinping attended the leader summit virtually and delivered a keynote speech announcing the official establishment of the first batch of national parks and other important initiatives. The Kunming Declaration adopted injected strong political interests into the global biodiversity governance process and increased worldwide confidence in biodiversity conservation. The second part of the COVID-19 will be held next month in Montreal and China. We will continue to lead substantive and political affairs used by Director General Semento and the distinguished speaker from Switzerland. The post 2020 global biodiversity framework which is being prepared as a programmatic document to guide global biodiversity governance in the coming period particularly until 2030 is an important expected outcome of the second part of the COVID-19. The GBA offers a crucial chance and platform for modifying our interaction with nature. The adoption and effective implementation of the GBA will significantly boost the mainstreaming of biodiversity direct countries to adopt the most sustainable modes of production and the life and further strengthen the sustainable utilization of biological resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefit. As a result, man can enjoy the benefit of biodiversity in reducing poverty, mainstreaming food security and promoting sustainable development. The GBF negotiations are currently in spring phase even though all parties put a lot of effort on this and demonstrated a strong political commitment during the four rounds of working group consultations. We must admit that overall progress had not been as good as anticipated and that there are still significant differences on critical issues like resource mobilization and digital sacred information on genetic resources. The negotiations are still during informal talks in September, delegates from the five regions discussed and condensed the GBF text in the technical aspect resulting in a more readable and logical proposal. We urge all parties to use it as a base for follow-up consultations. Ladies and gentlemen, as a co-15 presidency, China had made every effort to ensure a leadership and coordination role in encouraging all parties to collaborate on the GBF. China has organized exchanges on key co-15 issues and high-level round table meetings during events and opportunities like the United Nations High-Level Political Forum 2022 on sustainable development. The G20 joined the environment at the climate minister meeting the high-level week of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 27, during which China communicated and cooperated with ministers of different countries on the successful running of the second part of COP 15 and attainment of the GBF. I was honored to moderate some of the ministers in the last week. Here, I hope that all parties will take advantage of the last chance to sprint to the second part of the COP 15 activity, practice and global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefit, further strengthen the political view to reach the GBF with account to the actual situation of each country. Demonstrate the sprint of collaboration, mechanism and flexibility and maximize conservation ambition and programmatic GBF as the second part of the COP 15. Therefore, I view use in a new area of global diversity and governance. I thank you for your patience. Thank you, Director. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr Liu, for your comprehensive presentation. I would like, of course, to thank China for the presidency of COP 15 with the objective to have a global biodiversity framework adopted in Montreal in December. Thank you also for outlining all the efforts which you are undertaking at national level, recognizing the importance of agriculture, agri-agro-ecosystem and agricultural policies for the conservation of biodiversity for all the efforts undertaken and the relevant, the related governance with extensive community participation as you described. And of course, we can only salute the effort, the objective to create 25 percent of your territory as a protected area. I think this is indeed remarkable. Thank you also for the effort that has been made in the context of the first part of COP 15, which was a success in Kunming with an ambitious Kunming declaration that was adopted. And we wish to, of course, we wish the second part of COP 15 as successful as the second one. Thank you also for highlighting a few of the remaining discussions that we need to take place, and we hope that indeed solution will be found to these issues and that this will lead to the adoption of a new global diversity framework. So thank you, a biodiversity framework. Thank you very much, Mr. Vieux, for your for your intervention. I hope you can stay with us for the rest of the session this morning. And now it is my great pleasure to give the floor to my colleague, Frédéric Castel, who is a senior natural resource officer at FAO and co-author at the Office of Climate Change Biodiversity and Environment, who will present the links between the agri-food system and biodiversity, including on FAO's work and the importance of agri culture and negotiation at COP 15. Frédéric, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, Dominique. Good morning, excellency, ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon. Mr. Dieu, Mr. Franier, for your presentation. It's a pleasure to be part of this webinar, and thank you for the opportunity to present a FAO's work on mainstream biodiversity across agricultural sectors. And thank you for giving us the opportunity to present FAO's engagement in COP 15. While FAO is starting, while COP 15 is starting in two weeks, I will try to put FAO's work in perspective. Next slide, please. So, that's it for my presentation. I will first try to define how FAO qualifies biodiversity for food and agriculture. Then I'll present the FAO's strategy on mainstream biodiversity across agricultural sectors. Then I'll make the link with the upcoming conference of the UN Biodiversity Conference COP 15 that we take base in Montreal. And I will first focus on the POST 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework before to conclude on the way forward for FAO. Next slide, please. So, before to present FAO's work on biodiversity, I would like to start by clarifying what FAO intends by biodiversity for food and agriculture. As defined in the State of the World Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture, prepared in 2019 under the guidance of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture is defined as a subset of biodiversity that contributes in one way or another to agriculture and food production. It includes domesticated plants and animals, raising crops, livestock, forest and agriculture system. The wild relative of domesticated species. Wild species are vested for food and other products and what is known as associated biodiversity, which is the vast range of organisms that live in and around food and agriculture production systems. So, biodiversity for food and agriculture is much more than agro-biodiversity. It includes plant, animals and microorganisms that underpin production, whether by maintaining earthy soil, as mentioned by Ms. Frenier, pollination plants, purifying water or delivering any other vital services. Next slide, please. So, for more than half a century, FAO has led work on biodiversity, even if it's not really known. Current FAO's work includes a large portfolio on biodiversity and a recent internal assessment revealed that biodiversity is a key objective in about 800 projects with a combined value of 2 billion US dollars. For instance, FAO adopted already in 1950 the International Plant Protection Convention. In 1983, FAO established the first integral health body dealing with biodiversity relevant to food and agriculture. Today, known as the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. In 1995, if you adopted the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, in 2001 the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources was established. In 2013, FAO and WHO adopted the Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management. In 2019, the state or the world biodiversity for food and agriculture was prepared under the guidance of the Commission. In 2021, a framework for action on biodiversity for food and agriculture was developed as a response to the state or the world. My last example will indicate on ecosystem restoration that FAO is currently co-leading with UNE. I will stop here with an example, but there are only a few examples of FAO's work to support countries in the implementation of normative and standard setting instruments such as international agreements, code of conduct, technical standards, etc. Next slide please. So I will now present the FAO strategy on mainstream biodiversity, but before to present the strategy, I just want to make a short reference to the COP 30 of the CBD who took place in 2016 in Mexico. At COP 16, the high-level segment had a theme on mainstream biodiversity across pro-heat sectors, including agricultural sectors. And at that COP, FAO offered to act as a platform to mainstream biodiversity across agricultural sectors and facilitate a discussion among environmental sectors and agricultural sectors. And that offer was welcomed by the COP. So the week after that COP, FAO members requested FAO to develop a strategy on mainstream biodiversity. So that strategy was adopted in 2019 and the aim of the strategy is to mainstream biodiversity across agricultural sectors at national, regional and international levels in a structure and current manner, taking into account national priorities, need regulation and policy, and country-programming framework. The expected results of the application strategy would be first to reduce the negative impact of agricultural practices on biodiversity, second to promote sustainable agricultural practices, and third to conserve, enhance and restore biodiversity at work. Next slide, please. Achieving the strategies, aim and goals require action that will focus on four main outcomes. The first one support is provided to my members at their request to enhance the capacity to mainstream biodiversity. Second one, biodiversity is mainstream to cross-faust policy programs and activities. Third one, form of biodiversity and ecosystem services for food security and nutrition is globally recognized. And fourth, coordination and delivery of false work on biodiversity is strengthened. Next slide, please. After the adoption of the strategy, an action plan was adopted by FAO in 2021 to support the implementation of the strategy. So that action plan includes exactly 182 activities at national level alongside false normative work such as the development of international color of conduct. And there is one on fertilizer, for example, that was recently developed, and other technical guidelines, policy tools, awareness raising, material, et cetera. The action plan includes action to promote sustainable agriculture in different ways. Ms. Frenier mentioned the work that Switzerland is doing on agriculture. For instance, FAO is currently developing methods and metrics to assess the impact of agriculture, and we are currently developing the tool for agriculture performance evaluation. That's an example among 20 others. Next slide, please. FAO is also working at international level and made the link with the Convention on Biological Diversity and with the CBD. So the CBD is one of the three real conventions with the Climate Convention and the Convention to combat desertification. And the CBD has three objectives. The first one is to ensure conservation of biodiversity, second one to promote sustainable use of biodiversity, and the third one to ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits. So most of the actors when they are talking about the Convention are talking about the first objective, the conservation. But for FAO, sustainable use is particularly important. And if we want to pass that message, sustainable use of biodiversity is really important for I would say to us and sharing the fair and equitable sharing of benefits is also really important. And that's what the treaty on financial resources is mainly working on that fair and equitable sharing of benefits. So as Mr. Yu mentioned, COP15, part two of COP15 Montreal will be of really important following part one in CUMIN. And the main objective of part two is to adopt the POST 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. This framework is described as the biodiversity equivalent of the Paris Agreement on climate. And the COP15 is representing biodiversity of Paris moment. Next slide please. Now I would focus maybe my presentation on the POST 2020 GBF, Global Biodiversity Framework. So the POST 2020 framework will replace the 20 ISHIT targets that were agreed by parties as part of the CBD's strategic plan for Biodiversity for the period 2011 and 2020. So despite some progress, none of the ISHIT targets were fully achieved by the hand data offered in 2020. And the figure in front of you represents, this figure is from the Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, which evaluated the ISHIT targets. And the figure represents a portfolio of actions necessary to shift from the current trajectory of biodiversity loss and in relation to a positive trend of recovery. And if we look at those actions, reduced consumption, sustainable production, reducing other drivers, such as climate action, power is working on all those actions. So really just to underline that power as a key role to play to implement the upcoming POST 2020 GBF. So next slide please. So the current draft of the POST 2020 framework includes four long-term goals for 2050 and 22 action-oriented targets for 2030, grouped in three clusters. The first cluster is target 128, focused on threats to biodiversity. The second cluster from target 9 to 16 focuses on meeting people's needs through sustainable use of biodiversity. And the last cluster from target 14 to 22 focuses on tools and solutions for implementation and mainstreaming. So if we look at the different targets, at the 22 targets, more than half of the 22 targets are really at the core of our mandate. So there is a target on ecosystem restoration. There is one on maintaining and conserving a genetic diversity of species. Another one on the harvest and trade of wildlife species, which includes fishing for instance. Another one on pollution, which includes pesticides, nutrients and plastics. There is also target 9 on the use of wild species and the benefits for people that include food security. And I could go on and on. And there are also end-director targets. There are also targets with end-directing to promote mandate. For instance, the one on incentives target 18. Next slide please. And I would like to give an example of some targets, which are really important for agricultural sectors starting with target 10. Target 10, for example, which is on sustainable production system, is currently drafted, as you can see, with a working text and additional text for reference. So there is a lot of bracketed text and with alternative technology that could be used. So just to say that it's still quite a long way from a clear and concise action-oriented target where party would agree to. And there are a couple of contentious issues. I mean, the draft at the moment has more than 950 brackets. So members, parties, we have a lot of work in Montreal. So on target 10, among the contentious issues, one is whether to cover all areas or just a percentage with progressive improvement. Another one is the term ecosystem services and or a nature's contribution to people. So for the party where unable to come to a common way forward in terms of terminology. Another contentious issue was to include a reference to increasing productivity or not. But it seems that that that will be solved most probably. And another issue is about making a specific reference to specific approaches. Some members propose to mention biodiversity friendly approaches and practices, including agroecology as appropriate and the ecosystem approach. However, other parties noted that agroecology is one type of approach and not the only one. So there is a discussion around that. It's just to give you the flavor of the discussion around target 10. And just for your information, at the request of CVD Secretariat, a favor is now working on a note on the terminology related to agricultural sectors. Next slide, please. I would also like to mention target seven. Again, you can see on the screen that target seven is highly bracketed. Target seven is on and there are different views regarding whether the target should refer to pesticide and highly hazardous chemicals or to highly hazardous chemicals or pesticides. Parties have the divergent view on whether to include a numerical figure in this target at all or whether to include it for nutrients or for pesticide respectively. Parties held divergent views also on whether to include reference to plastic pollution or plastic waste. Additionally, some wishes to include other sources of pollution such as the light or noise, but no agreement on that. On plastics, some parties propose to align with the recent UNIA resolution. However, at the target of the post-20 GBF deadline of 2030, a reference to the resolution is not included in the target so far. Next slide, please. That will be my last example, but I could talk also about the other targets. I just wanted to mention the target on ecosystem restoration as how is colliding the Medicaid on ecosystem restoration with UNEP. On the target, there was a general consensus to refer to individual ecosystems rather than land and sea areas and as well to add a reference to coastal ecosystems. The main area of divergence are that some parties supported 20% or 30% as a numerical element, but others did not wish to include a numerical target at all. Other parties suggested to use an absolute value such as at least 1 billion hectares. So it's just to say that again on target 2, there are some controversial issues. Next slide, please. So I will conclude my presentation by saying that the post-20 GBF framework will not succeed without the active engagement of the food and agricultural sectors because agriculture underpins the livelihoods of 2.5 billion people and there is a need to connect the post-20 global business framework with the reality of the family farmers, small scale producers and food security and nutrition depend on biodiversity. Sustainable use of biodiversity is really crucial to agriculture and for a fail, implementing existing tools and developing distinctive solutions for agri-food systems will be critical to achieving the post-20 global biodiversity framework and this includes standards, guidelines, accounting and monitoring tools, code of conduct and all the normative or policy instruments developed under the guidance of FA. And the last message is that folks already in power will assist countries at their request to implement the post-20 global biodiversity framework once adopted as many of the targets will be directly related to agri-food systems and post-20 really to facilitate and support the transformation of agri-food systems including the implementation and monitoring of the relevant targets to agri-food sectors. And I'll stop here. I thank you very much. Thank you very much for this very comprehensive briefing for starting by reminding us that indeed biodiversity, biodiversity conservation has been at the core of FAO work since it was established in support of its members at global and at local level, global level going back 1950 with the adoption of the International Plan Protection Convention but also over the years in support of our members, 800 projects, $2 billion invested in support of that and then moving I would say a next step after COP 13 with the strategy on mainstreaming biodiversity across the agricultural sector at all levels. What I think was also very important in your presentation was in the illustration of the importance of the post-2020 biodiversity framework for the agriculture sector highlighting the challenges that I led going to Montreal where we want to go for a bracket zero type of achievement reaching the agreement and then of course highlighting the work that FAO continues to play in preparation for even Montreal. You mentioned the work that FAO is doing in terms of a note for the agriculture related terminology but then also of course post Montreal we will continue to play in terms of implementing existing and and developing new tools but then of course supporting the members and the request for the implementation of this post 2020 biodiversity framework. So thank you very much Frederic and I think now that's all with the speakers and I would like really to give you an opportunity here in the room but also you mentioned that are participating virtually to engage and to ask your questions or points of clarifications you would like from us on that occasion so the floor is yours. Thank you Mr. President. I'll say I'm very honored to be here with so many delegations maybe I should not be the first to speak but since I will be obliged I'm very sorry for that I really wish to leave this meeting soon. I take this opportunity I would like to thank all of you for the presentations and presenting not only the landscape but also the actions and the commitments of the countries. As you know France is among the countries that are committed and we are we are really like the way you present the involvement of agriculture sector in general. I appreciate I would not comment that much but I especially appreciate the last slide saying the next global framework will not succeed without the agricultural sector and this is now I think obvious to many of us it was perhaps not the case in the previous details so we very much encourage this synergy between biodiversity and agriculture the same way and synergy between the conserving diversity and environment together with efforts in industrial sectors other bodies. So this is my main statement and I would just like to finish and express also the fact that it is nice that this framework comes in the Paris spirit or Paris moment as you said it is nice that we define not only philosophy on objectives but also targets and indicators that go together with these main objectives because it can measure the progress and gives indication and a clear a clear definition to our commitments both I think it's not right this as well. Thank you very much sir and indeed in the wrapping up what Frédéric said I forgot to emphasize that we have 22 targets and FAO will play a role in at least 11 of them so it shows the centrality of the the agricultural sector. Thank you very much sir. Thank you. Just wanted to thank you for your presentation as France just said Frédéric also a country very engaged with biodiversity agenda and we're very looking forward to actually adopting the GBF we've been waiting for since 2020 so we would hope that it can be adopted and that it can be an ambitious framework. I just wanted to highlight what you were saying about the importance of FAO working with countries to implement the framework once it's adopted when we started discussing it because Frédéric had the internal work and we found out that it would take us at least four years to adapt our national policies and frameworks to be able to implement the global biodiversity framework and that was when it was supposed to be adopted in 2020 so that we could get results by 2030 now we have two years of waiting and so we are a bit late on it so I think the work from implementing agencies will be essential for us to be able to to have results and we we saw that the IHE targets we couldn't really reach them so we hope that this time it will be different and that by 2030 we can get better results. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. I can only hear from FAO's commitment to support the countries implementing the whatever agreement in the the area of course that we have implemented. Thank you chair and very glad to join today's discussion and to learn a lot from presentations provided by the distinguished speakers from FAO and also China and you know Mr. Liunie is our deputy representative of COP 15 president and just now I know I got the alert from his team that he was just he just concluded his overseas trip to Egypt that's COP 27 so on behalf of our Chinese mission I would like to express deep gratitude for his contribution to today's meeting and also our deputy also goes to FAO their summer office for organizing this productive and significant session and you know where I came into this before I came into this panel I feel a bit chilly outside but after listening to all this innovation and presentations I I was much encouraged by the positive sentiments and also strong dedication and commitments expressed and we all look forward to a successful adoption of GBN and in China we have a sign more hands make work light and successful so my best wishes. Thank you thank you very much and I like think that we are all solution oriented and working towards the need finding the way forward on this and again of course thanking Mr. Liunie for his participation today so but and as I said at the beginning of our event today I mean this is the first event of a series of environment climate ecosystem restoration events that we will be organizing I would say on on a regular basis you know in 2023 and and we will be working closely with Federica and his team and therefore of course perhaps debriefing on on Montreal and the way forward and we really count on you and you understood join those discussions so thank you for that any other yeah. Good morning everyone my name is Federica Donati from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights maybe just one question Federica or anyone and thank you very much for organizing this event and for a very interesting presentation my my question would be to what extent do you think as you know the US Council and the General Assembly have nice now they try to healthy and sustainable environment so to what extent that could be a little bit of an extra push to agree on the framework in a in a week time or so thank you very much. Thank you Madam. First we'll see if there is any other comment question and then we'll go to Brazil. I would first like to thank the FAO is one of this for organizing this meeting I think it's very important to engage our permanent missions here in Geneva also in the debates of biodiversity and this importance of connecting of course agriculture to biodiversity I think that this perspective of promoting the sustainable development goes is very important especially for developing countries and I think that my question to you goes more along the lines of how to respect the different mandates while at the same time cooperating between different multilateral agreements so while at the same time FAO cannot close its eyes to biodiversity on the other hand we still have the problem of hunger around the world and we do need to feed people so how do we balance that approach and what's your vision on that topic thank you. Okay thank you. Question basically on trade off school. And I see Egypt there was a question left okay so I see that Mr. Liu also is back on the screen so I know Mr. Liu is it you want to start in and to make a comment. Thank you director I'm actually I didn't want to comment more but I really thank you for your very nice confrontation and comments it's really helpful for China as a pregnancy of the COP 15 to conduct our mission in Montreal so I really thank you for all your support and looking forward to see you all in Montreal after 10 days I will write for Montreal last week I was in some side so I wish you to join us to conduct a successful GBA thank you. Thank you thank you Mr. Liu and safe travels to Montreal. Do you want to react to questions from the colleagues from the CHR and from Brazil on trade offs? Okay maybe I will start with the question from Costa Rica and the thing that it will take you time to adapt the staffs and Paul realized that and we got to do it's really important for Paul to be involved in making the implementation of the NB staffs and NB staffs are the national bio city strategy and action plans yeah and so Paul ready to assist country at their request to support the implementation of post-Saharan PVF and specifically the targets are ready to have extra sectors and so we are already starting to work with a few countries and just to make sure also that what we are doing in the context of the PVF is not undermining other decisions so we try to align agricultural policies with environmental policies so that's and we want to be part of the discussion and to support country because it's true at so far it was mainly a environmental driver exercise and agricultural sectors as a key role to play I would say so I hope I answer your questions and Paul will be really happy to collaborate with Costa Rica just to work on the implementation of the NB staffs. Regarding the question on human rights I think if you look at the draft the issue is pretty well covered the current draft of the post-Saharan PVF and it's not that controversial so I think it should be really well reflected in the text to be adopted in Montreal at COP 50. The question from Brazil on how to respect the different mandates the program of hunger and conservation I think we cannot oppose conservation sustainable use of biodiversity and hunger I would just illustrate what I want to say with one example for instance Paul had a study on pollination just protecting areas which are not protected areas but natural forests around the protected areas just to protect pollinators and we just noticed that by doing that we just increase food production because pollinators were higher and he increased the food production by 20 percent so that's why in my introduction it was important for me to to mention biodiversity for food and agriculture because biodiversity really has a role to play to secure food security and so we consider the same legend of biodiversity important to increase food security. Any other question? Okay so thank you very much for your comments and questions and as I said there would be more opportunities to do so and I would like now to hand over to my colleague Mr Zittoni the deputy director of the office of climate change by diversity and environment of FAO who kindly agreed to deliver some concluding remarks Zittoni you are also just back from Chairman Sheikh and and so the floor is yours. But thank you very much Dominique and greetings excellencies, dear colleagues and and everyone joining this this event. Thank you Dominique and thank you to Madame Semedo, Mr Leo, Frederick and Isabelle and everyone really who participated in this event and I would like also to really wish a very good luck to the Chinese presidency for this important COP excuse me as you said Dominique I'm still recovering from the COP 27 just came back yesterday but this event is really timely because it's just between this COP we just finished and of course the important one coming up in in Canada and and and I think it's it is very well recognized obviously that we are living a joint crisis you know the climate change crisis and the biodiversity crisis that are becoming increasingly devastating with all the impact that we're seeing between you know all around the world and it's fair to say that and there is evidence that the impact of this crisis they are all affecting agri-food systems and global food security and also the livelihood of you know more than two and a half billion people as you know who really depend on the agricultural sector around the world and what this necessitates really in this context is that we need to have another look to the agri-food systems and transform them so that they become more efficient and more inclusive and more resilient to these shocks and crises and also more sustainable so this is really an important part of the solution that we need to address both the biodiversity loss and the climate crisis and also achieving the sustainable development goals as a whole and it's important and I think Japan made made this good point about looking at the different multilateral agreements and looking at other challenges that the world is facing so these solutions we're talking about obviously must address the crisis of hunger and malnutrition that that we're still living we still have around 828 million people who go hungry every day so it's true we need to look beyond biodiversity and the benefits of addressing biodiversity in conjunction with the climate crisis ecosystem restoration and others so that we can maximize the impact and maximize the benefits that we want to achieve and at the same time really avoiding the trade-offs that you've been talking about and what this also means is that we need more coordination and synergy between the ministries involved in the decision-making traditionally it has been mainly the environmental ministries normally we need to involve more the agriculture and the finance ministries not just in the negotiations but in the implementation as well so just back from COP 27 I think it's been really encouraging that finally we've got a decision on loss and damage and you know what loss and damage means is that you know the impact of biodiversity the impact on food production and livelihood and we've seen a commitment for increasing funding for adaptation as well so biodiversity would be critical obviously in achieving this adaptation goal and in building the resilience of the agri-food systems and societies as a whole so I think in relation to climate change and as you know the overall goal is to limit the increase of global warming to 1.5 degrees C but we cannot achieve this obviously without protecting and restoring biodiversity because the biodiversity is really the the bedrock of livelihood and of production and of you know people's lives and it was very encouraging actually at the COP 27 on the 16th of November there was a biodiversity day at COP26 and at the same time the same day we had the visit of the brazil's new president ilec Lula da Silva which did a really new momentum in addressing biodiversity and climate change because he pledged to commit you know the rainforest nation to to tackle the climate crisis and offer to hold in a future new and talks as well and it's a really massive gain for climate change and biodiversity so we really have to see this opportunity this political momentum from COP 27 as countries are traveling to to Montreal for COP 15 and just to to finish um because there was a lot that's been said you know through the discussion and thank you again because it's been really timely I definitely picked up a lot from the presentations um there is much more room actually to further advocate this independence or interdependence between the agri-food systems and the environment in particular as you know the dimensions of the SDGs are three main ones the environment the economic and social dimensions so we need to ensure that there is a good interaction between the environmental activities and those linked to the social and economic development and what this means also is that this is really a good opportunity investing in nature and in the environment in restoring in protecting you know biodiversity and nature in general so and as it was said you know the FAO is really really to ready to support the countries and work with other partners in in driving this forward in connection with other priorities that we mentioned and um you know we're really committed because our mandate it encapsulates as you know you know the defeating hunger in general that has various dimensions that are related to that and biodiversity climate crisis are one of those that we've committed to and we very much look forward to working with the countries and all partners towards the COP 15 and beyond particularly for the implementation in supporting countries and farmers on the ground to see the results so thank you again for the support and thank you Dominic and the whole team for really this timely webinar very interesting very constructive and and back to you Dominic well thank you thank you very much Zitooni for your remarks and for making the link between what just ended and what is coming up in a couple of days from now so thank you for that I think we've reached the end of this of this event today I would like to thank also all those who have participated in person in in the room but also the quite a large number of people participating virtually I think and and I would like of course to say a huge thank to our our speakers today Miss Frania from Switzerland Mr Liu from China who has a big task ahead becoming few weeks but also our colleague Frédéric and then of course you Zitooni and all colleagues were contributed to what has been a fruitful discussion the first of the kind for us but as I say please stay tuned there will be many other opportunities in the coming month to discuss biodiversity climate ecosystem restoration and importance for transformation towards more resilient inclusive efficient and sustainable agri-food system so thank you very much and I wish you a great rest of the day thank you bye bye