What they say

As a country of prime importance to the world economy today, China should continue to enhance international relations and to focus its attention on cooperation on a global scale and, as such, the green economy and sustainable development are fundamental and essential.

Alfredo Monteiro Costa, Seixal parliamentary speaker

The Eco Forum Global Annual Conference has attracted attention from Chinese communities in Europe. As the leader of the China-Portugal Chinese Association, I am pleased to introduce to the forum Portugal's experiences in ecological protection, tourism development and green resource preservation, and promote Portugal's participation in China's environmental protection and eco-civilization development.

Zhou Yiping, president of China's Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification in Portugal

The growth of China's green bond market can help many Chinese green projects to reduce their cost of capital, and also the growth of this market in China can help to demonstrate to other emerging markets how to grow a successful green bond market.

Sean Kidney, CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative

China's ambitious thinking sees green finance as central, not additional to the financial market reform agenda. From this perspective, a lack of green financing delivers poor allocation of capital, mispriced risks and weaker long-term economic growth, creating stresses that ultimately lead to financial market instability and underperformance.

Simon Zadek, co-director of the UNEP Inquiry into Design Options for a Sustainable Financial System

Capital supply is a crucial challenge to sustainable development worldwide and a key to effectively tackling climate change. A green financial work team led by the Research Bureau at the People's Bank of China and United Nations Environment Program completed a report on building China's green financial system in early 2015, giving 14 feasible suggestions based on a series of discussions at the Eco Forum Global Annual Conference 2014.

Ma Jun, chief economist at the Research Bureau at the People's Bank of China

Climate change is of great influence in China and affects agricultural production and lowers environmental capacity to deal with pollution. The country may have the growing risks of facing worsening climate disasters with global warming, thus we need to protect nature and pursue low-carbon development.

Zheng Guoguang, head of the China Meteorological Administration

(China Daily 06/26/2015 page1)