First Council Meeting Kicks Off for Global Climate-Carbon Neutrality Partnership

On July 21, 2022, the first board meeting of the Joint Action on Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality was held at Tsinghua University. Eleven initiating governing units of the Joint Action, including Tsinghua University, Hitachi, Toyota, Mitsubishi, BHP, Rio Tinto, Volkswagen, Microsoft, Harima Ishikawajima, Daikin, and Apple, participated in the meeting. Mr. Tan Hongxin, General Manager of Coway International TechTrans Co., Ltd. attended this session and made a speech.

First Inspector Gao Runsheng of the Department of Science, Technology and Informatization, and Professor He Kebin, President of the Carbon Neutral Research Institute of Tsinghua University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, attended the meeting. Gao Runsheng emphasized that the goal of carbon peak carbon neutrality is a major national strategy that General Secretary Xi Jinping has personally planned, personally deployed and personally promoted, which is related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and the construction of a community of human destiny, and universities are important windows and bridges of international cooperation, and the Ministry of Education supports universities to carry out international cooperation in the field of climate change and actively promotes the launching of universities and their participation in the international carbon neutrality field of large-scale scientific programs and large-scale scientific projects. The Ministry of Education supports universities to carry out international cooperation in the field of climate change.

Gao Runsheng congratulated Tsinghua University on the successful implementation of the Joint Action on International Cooperation on Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality, and encouraged the parties involved in the Joint Action to actively cooperate and promote the scientific research and industrial transformation in related fields to achieve greater results.

He Kebin said that the dual-carbon issue is a global challenge that needs to be tackled by the whole world, and it is of great significance for the development of the dual-carbon cause in China and even the whole world for universities, research institutions and multinational enterprises to work closely together in the joint action around scientific and technological innovation. He emphasized that there are challenging issues at the device level, the technical equipment level, the large-scale engineering level, the technology system level, and the governance system level, including carbon finance, and that many of these tasks require joint interaction between universities and enterprises in order to solve them better.

“The Joint Action on International Cooperation on Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality” was initiated by Tsinghua University and 10 world-renowned multinational corporations to carry out international cooperation in the field of climate change and carbon neutrality, with the aim of contributing to the realization of carbon neutrality and an effective response to climate change.

supports universities to carry out international cooperation in the field of climate change and actively promotes the launching of universities and their participation in the international carbon neutrality field of large-scale scientific programs and large-scale scientific projects. The Ministry of Education supports universities to carry out international cooperation in the field of climate change.

Gao Runsheng congratulated Tsinghua University on the successful implementation of the Joint Action on International Cooperation on Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality, and encouraged the parties involved in the Joint Action to actively cooperate and promote the scientific research and industrial transformation in related fields to achieve greater results.

He Kebin said that the dual-carbon issue is a global challenge that needs to be tackled by the whole world, and it is of great significance for the development of the dual-carbon cause in China and even the whole world for universities, research institutions and multinational enterprises to work closely together in the joint action around scientific and technological innovation. He emphasized that there are challenging issues at the device level, the technical equipment level, the large-scale engineering level, the technology system level, and the governance system level, including carbon finance, and that many of these tasks require joint interaction between universities and enterprises in order to solve them better.

“The Joint Action on International Cooperation on Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality” was initiated by Tsinghua University and 10 world-renowned multinational corporations to carry out international cooperation in the field of climate change and carbon neutrality, with the aim of contributing to the realization of carbon neutrality and an effective response to climate change.

Source| Tsinghua Research & Development affairs office public account, Coway International TechTrans Co., Ltd.