Former title: Amy Frankel, Secretary General of CMS, delivers a speech at the 8th Conference of the Parties to the African Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds Agreement
The eighth Conference of the Parties to the Africa Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds Agreement (AEWA MOP8) was opened in Budapest, Hungary, on September 27. Amy Fraenkel, Secretary General of the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), attended the eighth Conference of the Parties to the Africa Eurasia Migratory Waterbirds Agreement and delivered an opening speech. China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (hereinafter referred to as "China Green Development Association" and "Green Development Association") is a partner of the CMS Convention and an observer of the United Nations Environment Programme. It has long been committed to biodiversity conservation and green development. In order to promote China's deep participation in global environmental governance, the International Department of China Green Development Council compiled and published relevant content for readers' reference.
Source: CMS
Today, I am very happy to make an opening speech with you at the eighth Conference of the Parties to the African Eurasian Agreement on Migratory Waterbirds. First of all, I would like to express my special thanks to the Hungarian government for hosting this important international conference in Budapest, an extraordinary city, and for continuing to make commitments in the face of many challenges. I would also like to thank all AEWA Parties, stakeholders and partners who have contributed to this effort and will participate in promoting the success of this meeting in the coming days.
AEWA is the largest special agreement developed under the CMS framework, including 119 distributed countries and a vast geographical area extending from the Siberian tundra in the Arctic to the southern end of the African continent. Its focused and unique tasks enable it to work in a highly effective manner.
Since its entry into force in 1999, AEWA has been a pioneer in many areas, including the development of key site networks, adaptive management, and the successful development and coordination of single and multi species action plans for some of the most threatened waterbird species.
Many AEWA species protection policies and technical work have directly promoted the implementation of CMS and other multilateral environmental agreements, such as the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
I believe that many of you will agree that AEWA is a treasure in the CMS protocol group and have noticed its achievements in the past 30 years.
The success of AEWA has proved the importance and effectiveness of the overall approach of CMS and its many specialized tools, as we continue to see an unprecedented loss of global biodiversity. The work of AEWA, CMS and other members of the CMS family has never been more necessary. As you know, later this year, governments will meet in Montreal to finalize the new global biodiversity framework. We have been working hard to ensure that the framework includes key priorities that contribute to the achievement of CMS, AEWA and other instruments on migratory species, including goals related to ecological connectivity and species conservation. After the adoption of GBF, we will jointly contribute to its implementation in many important areas.
I am very pleased to report that the AEWA Secretariat and the CMS Secretariat have never supported each other as they do now, and there are many areas of cooperation at the technical, policy and administrative levels. These include work on important cross sectoral issues such as lead poisoning (AEWA played a leading role in this regard), as well as cooperation in avian influenza, illegal hunting and mitigation of the impact of renewable energy and power lines on migratory birds.
AEWA and CMS Secretariat are the founding partners of World Migratory Bird Day, and the scale and impact of this activity are constantly expanding in raising people's awareness of migratory bird protection and encouraging action.
The common location of our secretariat in Bonn has also created synergies in many programmatic and administrative areas. An obvious example is the Joint Information Management, Communication and Awareness Unit, which has made the knowledge management and outreach work of our two secretariats bigger and more effective. However, there are many other areas where synergies can save costs and bring incalculable benefits, including administrative services, cooperation in human resources management, responding to new challenges such as pandemics, and formulating broader United Nations policies in a way that takes into account the special needs of each of our secretariats.
In view of all this, I would like to encourage you to strongly support the work of the AEWA Secretariat, especially when you consider options for increasing its budget. This is a critical moment to promote the conservation of migratory waterfowl and biodiversity in a broader sense. The AEWA Secretariat has managed to accomplish most of its tasks, but I know it has reached its limit and is trying to cope with a very ambitious work programme. Therefore, I hope you will take necessary steps to strengthen flight route protection in Africa and Eurasia, and ensure that AEWA will maintain the highly effective treaty so far.
Once again, I sincerely thank our hosts, AEWA contracting parties, non contracting governments, stakeholders and partners.
I would also like to thank and congratulate Jacques Truvelitz for his excellent leadership and management of AEWA and the entire AEWA team, and thank them for their hard work and dedication on these important issues.
I wish you all fruitful and successful meetings.
(This article is compiled from the CMS official website and does not represent the platform view. The translation is for reference only.)
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