Pan Jiahua: Take climate actions to achieve win-win cooperation

On December 20, 2021, the Global Strategic Dialogue 2021, an international webinar for the open global economy, was co-hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and China Daily in Beijing.

Pan Jiahua, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in his keynote speech that the international community has reached a political consensus on carbon neutrality, and more than 100 countries have proposed emission reduction targets. How to implement this target is an issue that all nations need to seriously consider.

He pointed out emission reduction should not be seen as a burden, but as an opportunity for each country to change the development paradigm and think about how to achieve better development with less energy consumption.

At the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in November 2021, 197 participating countries agreed on the Glasgow Climate Pact to accelerate climate actions and reached a consensus on the implementation rules of the Paris Agreement.

"Reducing emissions is not a 'zero-sum game', and every country can benefit from this process," Pan said.

Lu Jingyi contributed to this story.