Denmark Environment Minister sets up first biodiversity council to help nature initiatives

Ministry of Environment anunced on October 1 that Denmark's first Biodiversity Council has been established to advise government and parliament (Folketing) on nature initiatives. Danish Minister for Environment, Lea Wermelin, has selected chairman and eight or members of Council.

"In future years, Biodiversity Council will play an essential part in work of increasing Danish biodiversity and nature, and we will have an experienced woman at helm in Signe rmand, who can offer a lot of experience and expertise to work," Wermelin said, Xinhua reported. 

Signe rmand is a professor of ecoinformatics and biodiversity at Aarhus University's Department of Biology, as well as centre's manr.

Biodiversity Council aspires to offer kwledge in sectors relevant to biodiversity

establishment of a Biodiversity Council is part of an environment and biodiversity pack aimed at giving Danish nature a 'historic boost.'

In December 2020, administration and supporting parties reached an agreement on pack. Biodiversity Council also aspires to 'offer kwledge in a wide range of sectors relevant to biodiversity,' such as land and freshwater, inland waters and high seas, as well as legal, socio-environmental, and behavioural elements of biodiversity, such as outdoor life.

UN Conference of Parties to UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) will be held in two parts in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province in southwest China, while UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) will be held later this year in Glasgow, Scotland.

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