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(221219) -- MONTREAL, Dec. 19, 2022 -- Huang Runqiu, COP15 president and China s minister of ecology and environment, announces the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, a UN deal aimed at reversing biodiversity loss and setting the world on a path of recovery, at the UN biodiversity conference, COP15, in Montreal, Canada, Dec. 19, 2022. COP15, formally known as the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, is expected to conclude later on Monday after nearly two weeks of negotiation. China holds the presidency of COP15. It held the phase-one meeting in Kunming, capital of southwest China s Yunnan Province, in 2021. The second phase of COP15 in Montreal, Cana