Climate-KIC director speaks at global eco forum in China

Climate-KIC education director Ebrahim Mohamed will speak at the Eco Forum Global Annual Conference Guiyang 2014 in China this week about innovation and low carbon regional development.

Mohamed will also serve as international witness to the signing of the China Regional Low Carbon Alliance Initiative by Chinese regional government leaders. A delegation from the Climate-KIC partner Climate Group will also be present.

The regional leaders will agree, amongst other things, to decarbonise urbanisation and “continuously enlarge the green proportion in the economic system,” as well as promise to lead China’s sustainable development from their regions.

The Eco Forum Global Annual Conference hosts delegates including representatives from China’s nine ‘New Area’ governments, global business leaders, and think tanks. China’s New Areas are major new economic development zones established across China earlier this year to spur development in line with ecological principles with the help of the central government.

Climate-KIC and the fourth largest city of China, Tianjin, agreed to collaborate on low carbon city projects in November last year.

Climate-KIC CEO Mary Ritter and District Mayor Peng San of Tianjin City’s Hexi District signed a statement of intent in the Chinese capital’s Great Hall of the People during the 2013 EU-China Summit.