It is just weeks away from the PrepConf of the BBNJ. And the global community of ocean conservation is all preparing for that.
In the last week of January, I got the chance to discuss with our global network on identifying our critical contribution to this treaty, hosted by our Swedish Office. We heard the full story of the BBNJ negotiation history from Alistair Graham, legendary expert who had catlyzed the agreement of both Convention of Biological Diversity and BBNJ, and understood key issues better. We had a in-depth deep dive on several countries and discussed our strategy.
China is unique this time, as it has applied to host the BBNJ secretariat. Therefore, I shares some brief introduction and personal observation on the progress. If China does succeed, we will have a huge load of task in the future!
The meeting was held in a greenhouse café, cozy and healthy. The only funny thing is that I need to walk for 30min from hotel to the venue, by-passing a graveyard. At 6PM, it is totally dark in Stockholm!