BEIJING, Jan. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- In order to
implement the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, open up
China's green urbanization market, support the transition from
"burden-sharing" to "opportunity-sharing", from "zero-sum game" to
"mutual benefit and win-win" among various countries, Green
Sustainable Development Conference was successfully held in
Beijing during 17th
-18th, 2019, which is co-hosted by Chinese People's
Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and
China Urban-townization Promotion
Council (CUPC), with the Nordic Council of Ministers as partner.
The theme of the conference is "Sustainable Development and Global
Cooperation on Green Urbanization". Organizations and enterprises
in relevant fields from United Nations, Nordic Council of
Ministers, China and Sweden,
Denmark, Finland and Iceland conducted a wide and deep discussion.
All Participants agreed that the Nordic countries have successfully
achieved coordinated developments among the economic, environmental
and social development and established a green sustainable
development mechanism. China needs to draw on the successful
experiences of the Nordic countries, strengthen international
coordination and cooperation, and establish partnership on green
sustainable development.
The opening ceremony was held on January
17th, 2019.The keynote speakers included Mr.
Laurent Fabius, Chairman of the
French Constitutional Council, former Prime Minister/former Speaker
of the National Assembly on Climate Change, President of
COP 21; Mr. Sishe Hu, member of the
CPPCC Standing Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People's
Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries; Mr. Xinli Zheng, Executive Vice-President of
China Urban-townization Promotion
Council, Former Vice Director of the Policy Research Office of the
CCCPC, and Mr. Svein Thorstein Berg,
Managing Director of Nordic Innovation. Jingan Zhang, Vice
President of China Urban-townization
Promotion Council, presided over the opening ceremony of the
conference.
Mr. Sishe Hu, Vice President of Chinese People's Association for
Friendship with Foreign Countries delivered an opening speech on
behalf of the organizers. He pointed out that under the current
economic, social development situation and the background of the
new scientific and technological revolution, the green sustainable
development is the golden key to open a new round of shared
globalization.
Laurent Fabius, Chairman of the
French Constitutional Council, former Prime Minister/former Speaker
of the National Assembly on Climate Change, President of
COP 21 delivered another keynote. He
pointed out that the global eco-environment is facing "red alerts"
and threats in various fields, and we must tackle the challenges
with cooperation. Mr. Fabius summarized the spirit of the Paris
Agreement adopted during his presidency of the United Nations
Climate Change Conference as the keywords of "better, faster and
together", among which "together" is the most important one,
emphasizing collaboration among a variety of entities, including
countries, citizens and enterprises; in political, economic and
scientific fields, and on both regional and national levels.
Meanwhile, Mr. Fabius believed that the problems presented at this
stage, if handled properly, may become great opportunities in the
future. To seize the opportunities, we must focus on the role of
innovation and to combine the stakeholders with technological
innovation and social innovation. To sum up, Mr. Fabius said that
environmental problems should not be addressed in an isolated way
where different industries may have different solution, but need to
be handled as a comprehensive way. Mr. Fabius fully affirmed the
importance of this conference in reaching global consensus and
jointly tackling global challenges.
Mr. Svein Berg, Managing Director
of Nordic Innovation, delivered a keynote speech on behalf of Mr.
Dagfinn Høybråten, Secretary - General of the Nordic Council of
Ministers. His speech addressed the topics on the current
cooperation between China and Nordic countries, Nordic solutions to
global challenges and the future cooperation potentials between
China and Nordic countries. He pointed out that technology,
innovation and trade are important driving forces for the
development of Nordic countries in the 21st century, driving the
rapid growth of economy and cultivating many world-class Nordic
enterprises in various fields. Nordic experience in dealing with
global challenges can facilitate further and deeper cooperation
with China in the future.
Mr. Xinli Zheng, Executive
Vice-President of China
Urban-townization Promotion Council, Former Vice Director of
the Policy Research Office of the CCCPC, delivered a speech on
promoting international cooperation in the field of green
sustainable development. he pointed out that China's urbanization
will be the largest, fastest and most far-reaching urbanization in
the world, forming a huge market. China's urbanization is
developing at three levels: three world-class urban agglomerations,
sub-regional urban agglomerations of provincial capitals and small
and medium-sized urban agglomerations with featured towns as
network nodes. Urbanization with Chinese characteristics will play
an important role as a model for other regions and become a new
growth engine for the global economy. Xinli
Zheng systematically elaborated on Nordic experience in
realizing coordinated development of economic, social and
eco-environment system, and explains a new way to realize the
synergy of the coordination between green urbanization markets in
China and technological
innovations of sustainable development in Nordic countries in terms
of cooperative objectives, cooperative mechanisms and
systematization of international cooperation projects.
The opening ceremony also included the signing of the
international cooperation projects of green sustainable development
and the launching ceremony of the Future Reflection Plan.
Future Reflection Plan brings together influential think tanks,
enterprises, financial institutions and social organizations from
all over the world to jointly practice the value of green
sustainable development in the form of public welfare and charity,
and draw attention from whole society to deal with the challenges
faced by children and adolescents and encourage and guide children
and adolescents from around the world to involve themselves in
green sustainable development.
In the morning of January
18th 2019, the main forum was held, and experts
from home and abroad delivered speeches on governance system for
green sustainable development and innovation for sustainable green
urbanization. Ms Kristina Persson,
Founder of Independent Think-tank Global Utmaning (Global
Challenge) and former Minister of Strategic Development and Nordic
Cooperation of Sweden, delivered a
speech on the governance system for green sustainable development.
With the theme of 'from Paris Agreement to construction practice of
local urban area',Allan Larsson, Chairman of Viable Cities, Senior
Adviser of ElectriCITY Hammarby Sjöstad 2.0 and former Minister of
Finance of Sweden, introduced the
construction experiences of the Hammarby ElectriCITY project. Egill
Heiðar Gislason, Rotating Chairman, Board of Nordic Development
Fund, take Nordic Development Fund as an example, to introduce the
role of finance in urban sustainable development. Jiaxiang Li, former Administrator of Civil
Aviation Administration of China, Dingming
Xu, former Director of National Energy Administration of
China, and Guanxiong Jiang, deputy
Director of Center for International Economic and Technical
Cooperation, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the
three speakers from the perspectives of green aviation, energy and
environmental protection and green supply chain, introduce the
Impacts on sustainable development governance. Mr. Zuoming Lin,
former Board Chairman of China Aviation Industry Group Corporation,
and Mr. Jing'an Zhang, President of Research Association of China
Science and Technology System Reform and the former
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Science and Technology,
expounds the practice of scientific and technological innovation of
sustainable development and the important role of green innovation
in the construction of ecological civilization, and fully proves
that innovation is an important driving force to promote the
sustainable development of green cities and towns.
On the afternoon of the 18th Jan.
2019, four parallel forums were held simultaneously, the
theme of which are innovation for the sustainable development of
science & technology and education; energy, environment and
sym-biocity; society, culture and sustainable development, and
financial support mechanism for sustainable development.
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