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China Gets a Chance to Showcase Global Climate Leadership

The nation will host the first part of the high-profile United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity that aims to address ecological destruction, habitat protection and land conservation.

China’s endangered Green Peafowl. Friends of Nature
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Days before phase one of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in the southwest Chinese city of Kunming, the meetings look constrained in ambition and stalled in progress.