On the 6th of November 2022, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) opened in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. President Xi together with Xie Zhenhua, China's special envoy for climate change, Zhao Yingmin, head of the Chinese delegation and vice minister of ecology and environment, led the Chinese government delegation to attend the conference. The host country, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, British Prime Minister Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Scholz, Italy's new Prime Minister Meloni, and numerous African and island heads of state attended.
As one of the activities of the Chinese delegation during COP27, the COP27 "China Corner" Green Power Theme Side Meeting was successfully held on November 9. The theme side event was hosted by the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, co-organized by the International Green Economy Association, and Trina Solar was selected as the representative of China's power energy industry to deliver an action speech at the COP27 China Corner theme side event.
With the theme of "Pollution and Carbon Reduction, Green Power Development and Cooperation to Cope with Global Climate Change", the COP27 "China Corner" Green Power Edge Conference effectively demonstrated to the world China's positive efforts and achievements in promoting pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergy and the power energy industry to cope with global climate change.
The side event effectively promoted the representative enterprises of China's power energy industry to participate in the global action on climate change to a greater extent, strengthened dialogue and exchanges with the international community, and enhanced the global influence of enterprises. The side event pays attention to and supports the establishment of broader contacts among all parties involved in China's economic and social green and low-carbon transformation and development, and jointly implements the global common goals set forth in the Paris Agreement.
Background reference
COP
What is Conference of Parties？
Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Commonly known as the United Nations Climate Change Conference, it has been held annually in different parts of the world since 1995. Representatives of the Parties meet during the meeting to negotiate the climate.
COP achievement in the past
In Kyoto, Japan, December 1997, the Kyoto Protocol adopted by COP3 specified the types, timetables and quotas for reducing greenhouse gases in major developed countries before 2012, and was also the first international agreement to set mandatory emission reduction targets.
On December 12, 2015, in Paris, France, the Paris Agreement adopted by COP21 sets the stage for global action on climate change after 2020, with the long-term goal of limiting the global average temperature rise to 2°C compared with pre-industrial periods and striving to limit the temperature rise to 1.5C.
COP 27
It will take place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 6-18 November 2022
COP27 will be held in Sharmel Sheikh, Egypt, a desert city at the southern tip of Sinai, bordering the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, a small bay at the southeastern tip of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
More than 35,000 representatives of government departments, businesses, think tanks, news media and international organizations from nearly 200 States Parties will attend, and more than 2,000 speakers will discuss more than 300 related topics.
China Corporate Climate Action (CCCA)
At the Global Climate Action Summit in September 2018, Vanke Foundation and CTeam joined hands with industry associations, businesses, NGOs and research institutions to launch the China Enterprise Climate Action (CCCA). CCCA regularly holds activities such as "China Enterprise Day" and "China Enterprise Pavilion" at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to release annual corporate climate action cases.