Ministry of Ecology and Environment Weekly Highlights (12.11-12.17)

1.
Xi Jinping delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the second phase of the high-level meeting of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

On the evening of December 15, President Xi Jinping delivered a video speech
to the opening ceremony of the second phase of the high-level meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada.

2.
Opening of the high-level segment of the second phase of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

On December 15, local time, the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the second phase of the second phase of the Conference of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol officially opened
in Montreal, Canada.
President Xi Jinping addressed the opening ceremony via video
.
Huang Runqiu, President of COP15 and Minister of Ecology and Environment, presided over the opening ceremony
.

3.
Huang Runqiu, President of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) and Minister of Ecology and Environment, attended the second press conference of COP15 and parallel activities of the conference

On December 13, local time, the second phase of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) held the second press conference
in Montreal, Canada.
COP15 President and Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Gilboy, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNEP Anderson, and Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Murema attended the press conference and jointly answered reporters' questions
.

4.
Zhai Qing, member of the leading party group and vice minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, published a signed article in People's Forum magazine entitled "Reflecting the Authority of the Central Ecological Environmental Protection Supervision System with Real Rectification and Reform Results"

The Central Ecological Environmental Protection Inspectorate is a major institutional innovation and major reform measure of the Party and the state personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and is a major original achievement and institutional guarantee
of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought.
At the end of 2015, a pilot
inspection was carried out in Hebei Province.
By 2018, complete the first round of full inspection coverage, and carry out "retrospective"
of 20 provinces (regions).
In 2019, the second round of central ecological environmental protection inspections was fully launched, and by 2022, inspections will be carried out in six batches of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, 2 departments, and 6 central enterprises, successfully completing the inspection tasks, and achieving remarkable results
of "central affirmation, people's praise, support from all parties, and problem solving".

5.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced the results of the national air quality forecast consultation in the second half of December

In the second half of December, most of the country diffused under average conditions, with air quality mainly good to light pollution, and moderate pollution
in local areas.
Among them, severe pollution processes
may occur in central and southern North China, north-central East China, the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang and western Inner Mongolia.
Affected by sand and dust weather, moderate to severe pollution may
occur in southern Xinjiang on the 16th-20th and 23rd-26th.

6.
The relevant person in charge of the Environmental Impact Assessment Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment answered the reporter's question on the Notice on Printing and Distributing the Principles for Approval of Environmental Impact Assessment Documents for Construction Projects in the Four Industries of Iron and Steel/Coking, Modern Coal Chemical, Petrochemical and Thermal Power

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently issued the Notice on Printing and Distributing the Approval Principles for Environmental Impact Assessment Documents for Construction Projects in the Four Industries of Iron and Steel/Coking, Modern Coal Chemical, Petrochemical and Thermal Power (hereinafter referred to as the "Approval Principles"), in order to understand the background, overall ideas and main contents of the preparation of the Approval Principles, the reporter interviewed the relevant person in charge of the Department of Environmental Impact Assessment and Emission Management of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to interpret the Approval Principles in detail
.