From April 6 to 7, 2023 China International Conference on Climate Investment and Finance was successfully held under the guidance of the Department of Climate Change of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and co-organized by CECEP and the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences. The theme of this year's session was "Climate Investment and Finance Faciliates Green Low-carbon and High-quality Development". The conference lasted for two days, including the main forum and five parallel sub-forums, which focused on climate investment and finance to enable innovation-driven low-carbon transformation, climate investment and finance products and models, excellent international experience and Chinese practice, and carbon market and climate investment and finance trends at home and abroad, methane emission control and resource utilization, to discuss effective strategies and approaches of climate investment and finance to facilitate green and high-quality development.
In his speech, Mr Song Xin, Party Secretary and Chairman of CECEP, said that addressing climate change is a common challenge for all mankind, and that while making full use of the advantages of the entire energy conservation and environmental protection industry chain to carry out practices, CECEP also continues to strengthen the supply of intelligence, and vigorously carries out research on climate investment and finance policies, standards and operational models. It has participated in the formulation of many national policies and standards on climate investment and finance, helped many provinces and cities to successfully declare the first batch of national climate investment and finance pilots, and actively exchanged and cooperated with relevant international organizations and multinational companies. In the future, CECEP is willing to work with all parties, take Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization as guidance, continue to play a leading role in demonstration, implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, vigorously promote climate investment and finance to support green low-carbon and high-quality development, help achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and continuously promote the construction of ecological civilization and beautiful China.
The main forum also released seven latest achievements of the members and partners of the Climate Investment and Finance Association of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, including the international version of Guidance on taxonomy of climate investment and financing projects and Study on Climate Friendly Enterprise Evaluation System and Framework compiled by CECEP Hundred.
During the conference, OGCI Kunlun Climate Investment Fund and Sina Finance signed strategic cooperation agreements with the Climate Investment and Finance Association to promote knowledge sharing, academic research, capacity building and international exchange in the field of climate investment and finance through further comprehensive and in-depth cooperation. Zhu Qingfeng, member of the Standing Committee of the Party, chief accountant of the group company and vice chairman and secretary general of the association, signed the agreement as the representative.
One of the five parallel sub-forums hosted by the research center of the group company titled Climate Investment and Financing to Enable Innovation-driven Low-carbon Transformation focused on the goal of "double carbon" and discussed in depth the strategies and pathways to facilitate green low-carbon transformation and high-quality climate investment and finance.
Representatives from research institutions, financial institutions, large central enterprises, international organizations and media expressed their views on the development of the industry and the demand for climate investment and finance from different perspectives, and proposed corresponding solutions.