On October 19, the 2024 Forum on Promoting the Construction of Global Ecological Civilization (Erhai) opened in Dali, Yunnan Province, focusing on the way of global ecological governance, with nearly 300 Chinese and foreign guests, including envoys from many countries in China, heads of international organizations, well-known business executives at home and abroad, well-known experts and scholars, and industry leaders, gathered at the foot of Cangshan Mountain and the shore of Erhai Lake to discuss the future of sustainable development.
With the theme of "Working Together to Promote Eco-Friendly Modernization", this year's forum will set up thematic topics in combination with important directions such as Chinese-style modernization and the construction of a beautiful China, aiming to promote global sustainable development and build a clean and beautiful world.
The forum lasted from October 18th to 20th, and the agenda of the event highlighted the characteristics of "1+4+5", "1" is the opening ceremony and the main forum, "4" is "continue to help the green development of agriculture and build a green industrial chain of agriculture" academician forum and green agriculture development Sino-foreign exchange meeting and other 4 parallel forums, "5" is "Protect the Blue Planet · Dali" public welfare riding and other 5 supporting activities. Based on an international perspective, focusing on typical cases, the agenda is full of content, and the event sets up a variety of communication forms such as keynote speeches, case sharing, project release ceremonies, roundtable dialogues, special exhibitions, field visits, etc., to vigorously build consensus on green development between China and foreign countries with practical actions and experience learning.
The Erhai Forum is a supporting external publicity activity of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), and has been positioned as "an important legacy and major achievement of COP15" by the Office of the Executive Committee of COP15. As a mechanism meeting, the Erhai Forum is one of the provincial and ministerial forums approved by CIPG, and has been held for four consecutive sessions since 2021.
This year's Erhai Forum has made the Erhai Forum not stop at Erhai Lake in Dali through the project landing mechanism and cross-border linkage, but also inject long-term strength into the construction of ecological civilization. On September 24 this year, the European side meeting of the Erhai Forum was held in Geneva, Switzerland, and the "Erhai experience" from China crossed the border for the first time, exchanging and learning from the water management experience of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, further amplifying the influence, popularity and reputation of the Erhai Forum.
This year's forum also released the Global Enterprise Green, Low-Carbon and Sustainable Development (Erhai) Initiative, held the release ceremony of the Blue Carbon Future - Jointly Building the "Belt and Road" National Seaweed Carbon Sequestration Cooperation Project, and announced the launch of the "Dali Biography" project of "The Legend of 100 Cities on the Silk Road".
The event was hosted by CIPG, Yunnan Provincial People's Government and China Public Relations Association, and undertaken by CIPG, International Communication Development Center, Information Office of Yunnan Provincial People's Government, and Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture People's Government.
Kaiping News Reporter Yang Weiqi, Shi Zihao, Guo Mingjian, Ma Wen, Wen Photo courtesy of the organizing committee
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