The 2024 Annual Work Summary of the CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group

In 2024, the Climate Change Working Group of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) will continue to uphold the working purpose of protecting the ecological environment, serving scientific and technological workers, and doing a good job in scientific communication, and is committed to promoting the achievement of global climate change, biodiversity protection, and pollution control goals. The working group actively contributes to global environmental governance and climate change response by hosting or participating in international conferences, submitting evidence-based cases and opinions and suggestions, and promoting international cooperation.

1. Actively participate in major international climate agendas and voice the voice of youth

The 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference: The Green Association Climate Change Working Group took active action and formed a delegation mainly composed of young volunteers, climate solution experts, and green enterprise executives through public recruitment and other means. It attended the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP29) held in Baku in November 2024, which effectively promoted the participation of multiple stakeholders in international climate exchange practices and demonstrated China's excellent climate change response solutions. During the conference, the  CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group, at the invitation of the Azerbaijan Young Teachers Association, co-planned and organized a green campus theme education exchange event with it, and successfully passed the interview of the Azerbaijan government and obtained funding support from the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan. Through group discussions and presentations of results by young educators, this event promoted the exchange of youth green campus practices, established international friendships and partnerships, and built a platform for sharing different views, knowledge and best practices in environmental education and sustainable development, conveying to the world the efforts and commitments of the youth of China and Azerbaijan in biodiversity conservation and green development.

Bonn Climate Conference: The CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group actively responded to the open nomination for the sixtieth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SB 60) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and formed a delegation mainly composed of young scholars to attend the conference at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany from June 3 to 13, 2024. During the meeting, all youth representatives actively participated in the discussion, introduced China's excellent cases of responding to climate change, and helped Chinese youth to fully express their voices and professional opinions in global climate change research. At the same time, the CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group also submitted the "Plastic Track and Pollution Control" case to the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) before the meeting, and urged the SBI Chairman to focus on the connection between climate change, environmental pollution and health risks faced by children in the expert dialogue on children and climate change held by it.

2. Serving experts and scholars, nominating Chinese scientists to participate in the important work process of the IPCC

In June 2024, the  CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group nominated relevant experts from the Ecological and Environmental Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the School of Disaster Prevention Science and Technology, Renmin University of China, and the Island Research Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to participate in the relevant work of the Seventh Assessment Report.

In July 2024, the CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group nominated relevant experts from the Eco-Environmental Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Renmin University of China to participate in the IPCC Scoping Meeting for an IPCC Methodology Report on the Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage. In September 2024, the  CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group nominated relevant experts from the Eco-Environmental Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to participate in the preparation of the IPCC Special Report on Cities and Climate Change.

III. Scientific Exchange and Discussion on Ecological Protection

Nanhui Dongtan Case Exchange: In June 2024, at the invitation of the Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impact of the Implementation of Countermeasures (KCI), the CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group submitted a cooperative development case study - Climate Change/Nanhui Dongtan Case, which provided field experience and best practices for KCI's work plan and demonstrated China's innovative actions and positive measures in addressing climate change and protecting biodiversity.

Assist the foundation leaders to serve as co-chairs of the 10th GoGreen Summit and score the reports and speeches of dozens of scholars, promote global cooperation in sustainable development green exchanges and environmental protection; assist the foundation leaders to serve as co-judges of the Odyssey Film Festival, participate in the review of the best green films of various types, and promote the innovative dissemination of China's good stories on climate change internationally.

In May 2024, the  CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group actively participated in the first World Species Congress hosted by Reverse the Red. The conference responded to the resolution of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) World Conservation Congress, aiming to strengthen global species protection cooperation, promote mutual contact and communication, and expand species protection forces. The conference was held in a 24-hour uninterrupted online format. Conservation experts and scholars from all over the world shared case-based conservation strategies through presentations, panel discussions, satellite side meetings, etc., to promote joint efforts in global biodiversity conservation. On May 22, 2024 (International Day for Biological Diversity), the  CBCGDF Climate Change Working Group, together with the Andean National Science and Technology Organization, BGI and other institutions, held an online event with the theme of "Talking about Alien Invasive Species", focusing on the prevention and control of alien invasive species under the background of climate change. More than 1,000 viewers watched the meeting through online live broadcast.

(This article is compiled from the schedule work records for reference.)

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