The first domestic expo with the theme of "carbon neutrality": Serving the national strategy, accelerating green, low-carbon transformation, low-carbon | Shanghai International Carbon Neutrality Expo | Carbon Expo
Today, the 2023 Shanghai International Carbon Neutrality Technology, Products and Achievements Expo will open at the National Convention and Exhibition Center. This is the first domestic expo with the theme of "carbon neutrality", and it is also an important measure for Shanghai to serve the country's "dual carbon" strategy.
Achieving the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality is a major strategic decision made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core to coordinate the overall domestic and international situations. Shanghai has thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's thought of ecological civilization, incorporated carbon peak and carbon neutrality into the overall layout of ecological civilization construction and the overall situation of economic and social development, accelerated the formation of industrial structure, mode of production, lifestyle and spatial pattern of saving resources and protecting the environment, and accelerated the construction of a pluralistic co-governance pattern guided by the government, the main body of enterprises and social participation. Strive to take the lead in the country to embark on an ecological priority, green and low-carbon high-low-quality development path.
Looking back more than 20 years ago, after the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted the Kyoto Protocol, "low-carbon" was still unheard of by most people. However, due to the increasingly widespread, profound, and urgent impact of climate change on the global economy and society, "low-carbon" has become almost a household name and one of the high-frequency terms widely used in daily life.
Realizing carbon peak and carbon neutrality is a broad and profound systemic economic and social transformation that requires industrial transformation and the realization of green and low-carbon economic development models; We need technological innovation to continuously promote breakthroughs in green and low-carbon technologies; Financial support is needed to fully empower research, technology promotion, and industrial development of green and low-carbon technologies; We need legal protection to provide top-level design and legal framework for the green and low-carbon transformation of the economy and society; We need to open up cooperation to ensure the coordinated promotion and balanced development of energy conservation, emission reduction, and carbon control goals and specific work.
The Carbon Expo can effectively connect the above needs and focus on them. The first Carbon Expo is expected to attract over 100000 visitors and reach a larger audience through full media dissemination. The knowledge popularization, keynote speeches, case releases, and advocacy declarations set up by the Expo will effectively enhance the awareness and cognitive level of the low-carbon lifestyle concept, and enhance the public's awareness and action ability to practice low-carbon lifestyles in daily life.
According to the previous introduction, the Expo will fully leverage the role of the market and attach great importance to the power from the economic and industrial sectors. More than 600 well-known domestic and foreign enterprises actively participated in the exhibition, covering six major industries: energy transformation, energy conservation and efficiency enhancement, circular economy, practical exploration, low-carbon services, and low-carbon transportation. The exhibition aims to build a platform for various entities to connect and exchange in the carbon neutral entire industry chain, and promote the low-carbon transformation of the economic development model. The science forum held at the Expo brings together top scientists, research institutions, and think tanks from around the world to discuss and exchange cutting-edge scientific research on low-carbon energy and circular economy development, share revolutionary technologies, and provide scientific guidance and innovative impetus for green and low-carbon transformation.
Relying on Shanghai's advantages in financial markets, financial resources, financial services, and financial talents, the Expo can help green and low-carbon scientific research, technology promotion, and industrial development obtain financial service support such as funding and resources. The Expo also provides a powerful platform and efficient channels to promote extensive and in-depth exchanges and cooperation between industry, academia, and research institutions, government decision-making bodies, and management departments in the field of green and low-carbon. It cultivates a positive interaction mechanism between industry, academia, and research institutions, government management, and decision-making, and promotes the sound and perfect development of relevant policies and institutional mechanisms.
In addition, relying on Shanghai's unique position and advantages in China's reform and opening up, the Expo will also effectively promote domestic and international exchanges and cooperation in the field of green and low-carbon, gather strength, seek consensus, and promote the overall promotion and coordinated development of economic and social green and low-carbon transformation. It is reasonable to believe that with this exhibition as an opportunity, Shanghai is expected to achieve a comprehensive policy source in green development and low-carbon transformation, and better undertake the national strategic mission and promote high-quality development.