A few days ago, the "2024 Innovation: Building a Sustainable Future Forum" was successfully held at the former site of Lester Institute of Technology on the North Bund in Hongkou. The event was jointly organized by the North Bund Group, the Executive Committee of Shanghai Climate Week, the Tsinghua University Entrepreneurs Association, and the Imperial College London Shanghai Alumni Association. Wu Weiping, member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and deputy head of the district, attended and delivered a speech.
Zou Rong, Co-Director of the Executive Committee of Shanghai Climate Week, Yang Jun, Director of the Institute of Low Carbon Application of Shanghai Tsinghua International Innovation Center, and Wu Ning, President of Imperial College London Shanghai Alumni Association, delivered speeches successively. The main persons in charge of the District Development and Reform Commission, the District Ecological Environment Bureau, the District Science and Economic Commission, and the North Bund Group attended the meeting.
The leaders and guests at the meeting jointly opened the countdown to Shanghai Climate Week
With the aim of "China Action, Asian Voices, World Standards", Shanghai Climate Week aims to promote multi-level participation in China's commitment to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and to tell the world about China's actions to address climate change. At the scene, the leaders and guests at the meeting jointly opened the ten-day countdown to Shanghai Climate Week.
The forum brought together top experts and industry leaders in the field of carbon neutrality to discuss and look forward to the future of green development.
Lai Xiaoming, Chairman of Shanghai Environmental Exchange, shared the theme of "Building a More Effective, Dynamic and Internationally Influential Carbon Market to Serve the National Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Goals".
The Shanghai Environmental Exchange, located in Hongkou, is designated by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment as the national carbon emission trading system construction and operation and maintenance institution, and is one of the initiators of the Shanghai Climate Week.
Shanghai Environmental Exchange (data map)
Tsinghua University and Imperial College London alumni shared their themes. The forum also held two wonderful roundtable forums, with the theme of "Sustainable Development: Struggles and Challenges" and "ESG and Sustainable Development", with experts and experts from Swiss Chamber of Commerce, British Chamber of Commerce, Danish Water Research Institute, Gangjing Institute of Science and Technology, Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute, Qingyu Fund, Rongzheng Yisiji and other institutions and enterprises, to discuss in depth how to integrate the concept of sustainable development into enterprises and society.
At present, Hongkou is actively implementing the "dual carbon" strategy, and is making every effort to build a low-carbon development practice area on the North Bund to create a new benchmark for green urban areas. As a beautiful background for the future city model of the North Bund, green development will run through all aspects of the development and construction of the North Bund, such as Hongkou's promotion of ultra-low energy consumption and near-zero emission projects in the whole region, and the layout of green and low-carbon infrastructure such as the central green axis and car-free zone in the core area of the North Bund.
This event focuses on the specific practice of ESG in the context of the "dual carbon" era, which is of great significance for building a green, low-carbon and high-quality development pattern and building a low-carbon industrial highland on the North Bund. The North Bund will continue to deepen cooperation with all parties and actively promote the research and development and application of green and low-carbon technologies.
It is also understood that this forum is the first time that Tsinghua University and Imperial College London have cooperated at the alumni level, with the forum as a platform and alumni as a link, it is expected to promote the alumni enterprises and R&D institutions of the two universities to land in Hongkou, build an alumni ESG enterprise ecology, contribute to the development of Hongkou's new quality productivity, and jointly create the future.
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Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, also known as ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), evaluates the sustainability of business operations and the impact on social values from these three dimensions.
Reporter: Zhu Weiwen
Photo: Organizers
Source: Shanghai Hongkou