STORY: China plays positive role in multilateral environmental movement: UN ocean envoy
SHOOTING TIME: Oct. 22, 2024
DATELINE: Oct. 23, 2024
LENGTH: 0:01:04
LOCATION: XIAMEN, China
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English): PETER THOMSON, United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean

STORYLINE:

The Third Open Science Conference of the Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (ONCE) was held Tuesday in China's Xiamen.

UN ocean envoy Peter Thomson applauded China's approach to saving the health of ocean.

SOUNDBITE (English): PETER THOMSON, United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean
"I've been very encouraged by China's approach to saving the health of the ocean, whether it's the WTO fisheries negotiations in Geneva, whether it's leading the Kunming-Montreal process that led to the global biodiversity framework under which we will protect 30 percent of the ocean. But also China's prominent position in the Antarctic, where we're looking at creating huge marine protected areas to get to that 30-percent target set by the Kunming-Montreal process.
China plays a very positive role in multilateral environmental movement. In the areas of marine pollution and in fisheries control, I think China can show strong leadership there to make sure we have a full life cycle."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Xiamen, China.
(XHTV)