'Green' tops agenda at business forum

By Zhao Bian (China Daily)

Updated: 2010-04-14 07:48

The annual summit of China Green Companies (CGC) 2010, jointly organized by China Entrepreneur Club and Chengdu city government, will be held from April 22 to 23 in Chengdu.

Over 600 representatives from government, business, academia and non-governmental organizations including the UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner, President of China Enterprise Confederation Wang Zhongyu, Lenovo President Liu Chuanzhi, former Chinese Ambassador to France Wu Jianmin, Alibaba CEO Ma Yun, Chengdu Party Secretary Li Chuncheng and Chengdu Mayor Ge Honglin, are expected to attend.

China Daily is authorized by the organizers as the officila English newspaper to cover the event.

There will be forums focusing on effective cooperation between enterprises and government, creating a green economy and sustainable development.

All parties will explore ways in which green ambitions can actually be made a reality, by infusing business practices with environmental values.

Many views

The first annual summit was in 2008, and was established by the China Entrepreneur Club as the first cross-industry summit in China focusing on social and environmental values in business.

It has brought together more than 1,000 attendees since its inception.

The past two summits received support from the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.

On December 18, 2009, at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Chinese government set its target for cutting carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 based on the 2005 level.