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GCIC Round Table Forum | China's Power in the UN Climate Change Summit

Want to know the latest progress in China's response to climate change, or interesting or touching insider stories in COP27?

As a tribute to the Spring Festival, GCIC has invited four Chinese guests to participate in COP27 on behalf of China to speak together in the form of an online forum about China's strength in tackling climate change!

Roundtable Discussion

Online lecture time: January 8, 2023

Beijing time: 9-10 p.m

American and Eastern Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m

host:

-Zhu Yilin

（Global Climate Innovation Center (GCIC) | Executive Deputy Director）

Guests:

-Wang Xinchao

（China Association for the Promotion of International NGO Cooperation │ Director of Environmental Project Department）

- Lu Zhiyao

（Alxa SEE Foundation │ Director of Climate Change and Business Sustainability Project）

- Yao Zhe

（Green Innovation and Development Center (iGDP) │ Director of Strategic Communication）

- Song Ankang

（GCIC │ Executive Director）

What is COP27? Why is it so valued?

COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is an annual conference held under the leadership of the United Nations to achieve the landmark goals of the Paris Agreement.

The COP27, held in Egypt from November 8 to 20, 2022, focused on implementation, put forward the slogan of "Together for implementation", and gathered heads of state, politicians and representatives of civil society to discuss strategies to deal with global climate change.

China has repeatedly announced on important occasions that it will achieve "carbon peak" by 2030 and "carbon neutrality" by 2060, taking climate change as its own responsibility.

(UNFCCC: introduction to COP27)

Why is climate change attracting attention from all walks of life?

Looking back at 2022, the global average temperature is about 1.15 ° C higher than the average temperature before industrialization in 1850-1900. More and more extreme weather and rare natural disasters occur in countries all over the world: floods in Pakistan have flooded one third of its territory; China has witnessed the broadest and longest heat wave ever recorded; Drought in the Horn of Africa has brought more than 20 million people into famine

(World Meteorological Organization: evolution of global average temperature based on 1850-1900)

What is more alarming is that global warming and sea level rise are accelerating. The rate of sea level rise has doubled in the past 30 years.

(World Meteorological Organization: global average sea level height since 1993)

The increase of annual average temperature will lead to the increase of extreme weather, desertification, crop yield reduction, mass extinction and other problems, which will eventually threaten the survival of human beings.

Therefore, "double carbon" has become China's top-level development strategy, and everyone has the responsibility and ability to take action in "carbon emissions".