Original title: The 9th Global Climate Change Think Tank Forum was held in the "China Corner" of COP28 - (Introduction).
Green and low-carbon development needs to strengthen international cooperation (theme).
On December 6, the 9th Global Climate Change Think Tank Forum - Science and Technology and Policy Innovation to Promote Green and Low-Carbon Transition, hosted by the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, was held in the China Corner of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28). The participants discussed how to strengthen cooperation to promote green and low-carbon transformation.
Zhao Yingmin, head of China's climate change delegation and vice minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, pointed out in his speech that since the Paris Agreement came into effect, all parties have actively responded to climate change, taken a series of policy actions, and made positive progress, and green and low-carbon development has become an international trend in a new round of industrial and technological revolution around the world. Zhao Yingmin said that countries are at different stages of development, resource endowments and ability to respond to climate change are quite different, especially the vast number of developing countries are facing the heavy task of developing the economy, improving people's livelihood and responding to climate change, and urgently need a lot of support in terms of capital, technology and capacity building. As a think tank, it should conduct in-depth research based on science, actively contribute ideas and suggestions, propose practical solutions for developing countries, promote global green, low-carbon and sustainable development, and achieve a just transition. Zhao Yingmin stressed that the realization of green and low-carbon transformation is inseparable from pragmatic international cooperation.
Xu Huaqing, Director of the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, delivered a speech entitled "Global Stocktake: Our Perspective", explaining that the results of this conference will bring confidence and hope to the international community to implement the Paris Agreement and ensure that global climate governance is on the right track. Xu Huaqing also released six articles of the "Global Inventory" series of work**, which were researched and written by the National Center for Climate Strategy, including the "Global Energy Transition and Technological Innovation Action Progress Assessment and Related Recommendations", in order to provide relevant latest progress information, typical cases and practices and common solution suggestions for the world to work together to address climate change.
He Kebin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and dean of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality of Tsinghua University, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Challenges and Opportunities for Large-scale Deployment of Renewable Energy in the Context of Carbon Neutrality", which elaborated on the relationship, potential, utilization and challenges between carbon neutrality and renewable energy. He pointed out that China is exploring a synergistic path with clean air in the process of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and the air quality will accelerate the improvement driven by carbon emission reduction, and renewable energy will appear in China in the future.
Yuan Ying, Chief Representative of Greenpeace China, said in her speech on "Race and Cooperation in China-EU Clean Energy Investment" that in the face of climate change, a major challenge for all mankind, China and the EU should work together to build a green partnership, advocate a zero-carbon development model, and deepen cooperation in the field of clean energy. Wang Can, professor of the School of Environment at Tsinghua University, introduced the progress of the world's major economies in carbon neutrality commitments, low-carbon technologies, climate investment and financing, international climate cooperation, etc., as well as the opportunities and challenges faced by the current global carbon neutrality process.
Foreign experts and scholars also expressed their views on related issues. Robert St**ins, a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Management, pointed out in his keynote speech "Comparison of the Advantages of Carbon Price Policy: Carbon Tax and Carbon Trading" that the most effective carbon emission reduction measures in the world are mainly carbon taxes and carbon emission trading systems, but there is little international consensus on the selection of specific carbon pricing policy tools, and further research needs to be further strengthened. Bas van Ruijven, Head of the Energy, Climate and Environment Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and co-chair of the International Committee for a New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenario, gave a speech on "The Future of Global Climate Policy and Its Characterization in Integrated Assessment Models", expounding China's climate change policy and its expectations in the global model, and analyzing the model framework, model setting and model results. Laura Clarke, CEO of ClientEarth Kleins, said that strengthening exchanges and mutual learning between China and the EU on climate change legislation is of great significance for promoting the process of legalization of China's response to climate change. Jocelyn Blériot, Executive Director of the Allen-MacArthur Association, introduced the emission reduction mechanism and path of the circular economy in her speech on "Circular Economy Helps Low-carbon Transformation and Respond to Climate Change", and explored and evaluated the contribution and potential of circular economy measures to greenhouse gas emission reduction. Antonio Soria Ramirez, Director of Climate Change and Energy Economics at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, gave a presentation on the latest research on the Global Energy and Climate Outlook. (Economic ** reporter in Abu Dhabi Li Xuehua).
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