The United Nations'
Global Compact China Network just completed its gathering in Beijing.
The event titled 2015
China Summit on Caring for Climate concluded at the end of last month and
included several hundred business leaders, academicians and government
officials, as well Rae Kwon Chung, principal adviser to United Nations
Secretary-General on Climate Change, and representatives of the United Nations
Global Compact.
Discussions included
presentations on new actions by enterprises in a country that already is the
worlds largest investor in wind turbines, solar panels and other clean or
renewable energy sources.
Professor C.C. Chan,
of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the founding president of the World
Electric Vehicles Association, assessed that rapid progress in the development
of electric vehicles may allow China to become the world leader in this field.
Organized primarily
by the Global Compact China Network, the Beijing meeting came a week after 193
governments met in Ethiopia at a head-of-state level at a finance summit.
The third annual
China summit is affiliated with the global "Caring for Climate"
initiative, sponsored by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Secretariat, the UN Environment Programme and the UN Global Compact. Roughly
half of the approximately 400 corporations committed to "Caring for
Climate" are based in developing, emerging market and transition
countries.
Established in 2011,
the Global Compact Network China currently has around 300 Chinese enterprise
members.
-China CSR
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