ZHANG Xiaohan is originally from Tibetan people in Yunnan Province, south west of China. The Tibetan population is 4.593 million, mainly living in Tibet Autonomous Region, and the rest are distributed in Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu, Yunnan and other regions. Yunnan Tibetan population is 142200, mainly concentrated in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, a few scattered in Lijiang, Dali, Nujiang and other places. Tibetan language belongs to the Tibetan branch of Tibeto Burman language family of Sino Tibetan language family, which is divided into three dialects: Weizang, Ando and Kang. Yunnan Tibetan belongs to Kang dialect area. As the young generation, Miss. ZHANG Xiaohan has a strong interest in inheriting the language and culture of her own people, so she volunteered to participate in the project of the CASLab, which focus on the traditional culture and language of ethnic minorities related to environmental protection.

In 2019 and 2020, she participated in the second and third Paris Peace Forum, where she introduced projects on climate change, traditional knowledge, covid19 and gender. In 2020, She participated in the presentation and join former US Vice President Al Gore and The Climate Reality Project for 24 Hours of Reality: Countdown to the Future, a digital and global conversation about the climate crisis and its solutions in communities around the world.

Zhang Xiaohan has submitted a commitment to the Sharm El Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People

In June 2021, Zhang Xiaohan has submitted a commitment to the Sharm El Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People (Action Agenda), “the Use of Traditional Knowledge in Biodiversity Conservation by Nganyi Community, Kenya”, at:

https://www.cbd.int/action-agenda/contributions/action/?action-id=6052e034bb243300017a4c8e

The Conference of the Parties in decision XIV/34, decided to “encourage indigenous peoples and local communities and all relevant organizations and stakeholders including the private sector to consider developing, prior to the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, biodiversity commitments that may contribute to an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework and to make such information available as a contribution to the Sharm El-Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People”.

In July 17, 2021, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Environment Programme has sent a mail to Zhang Xiaohan and thanks for her interest in the work of the Convention on Biological Diversity and it’s Nagoya Protocol on Access to Benefit-Sharing and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity also develops a flyer of Zhang Xiaohan’s pledge and made it available on the CBD’s biodiversity Twitter.