International Forum on Tackling climate and Environmental Crisis
Published 15 August, 2020
The past five years have seen the highest global mean temperature on record. Cumulatively, humankind has emitted as much as 2200 GtCO₂ since the start of the Industrial Revolution. What’s worse, the extreme temperatures, frequent typhoons, and rampant flooding and droughts now being suffered — these are no more than “the eve of the storm”. Climate change is actually accelerating the formation of a global ecological and environment crisis that will almost certainly trigger a disastrous domino effect, dealing a devastating blow to both humankind and Earth. Faced with the deadliest of crises on a global scale, how then will humanity respond? How will they write this chapter of history?
The forum on September 22rd, 2020, themed on “Tackling the crisis in solidarity for a sustainable world”, will have an in-depth discussion on how to tackle climate and environmental crisis, and confront the problems exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. To be broadcast live globally, the forum will cover such topics as clean energy development, low-carbon energy transition, cross-regional energy interconnection, technological innovation, and green recovery, with a combination of both on-site and online.