Opening Remarks

Mr. Wang Zhongyu, President of CEC and Standing Vice Chairman of the 10th CPPCC

Mr. Peter Bakker, President & CEO of WBCSD

Keynote Speeches

Mr. Ren Hongbin, Vice Chairman and Member of the Party Committee, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC)

Mr. Wang Yiming, Deputy Director General, Member of Party Leadership, and Researcher of the Development Research Center of the State Council

Lunch

Session 1: Green, Low-Carbon, and Common Development

The world is facing a complex and severe situation, where both challenges and uncertainties exist. Advancing the sustainable development becomes the joint goal of the government, businesses, and the whole society. The Chinese government attaches great importance to the ecology and environment. Being an important engine for world growth, the enterprises shall take sustainable development as the guide for action, working together to promote the transformation and upgrading, the green, low-carbon, and common development, contributing to the economic and social development as well as the ecological and environmental improvement.

Keynote Speeches

Corporate Environmental Information Disclosure and Sustainable Development

Mr. Wang Jinnan, Dean of Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning (CAEP), Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

Further Improving the Legal System for Environmental Protection

Mr. Bie Tao, Director General, Department of Policies, Laws and Regulations, MEE

COP15: Opportunities for business to participate in biodiversity conservation

Prof. Ma Keping, Secretary General for Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Session 2: Launching the 2018 Annual Report of China Corporate Sustainability Index

Facing with tremendous economic, environmental, and social challenges, enterprises must not only be bigger, but also be better and stronger. Since 2016, China Corporate Sustainability Index has built up a corporate sustainability indicator system and the China Corporate Sustainability Data Exchange, aiming at promoting the sustainability and risk management of enterprises. In this session, the annual Green Book of the Project: the 2018 Annual Report of China Corporate Sustainability Index will be released.

Mr. Wang Jiming  Project Chair, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and President of CBCSD

Coffee Break

Session 3: Session 3: Joint Action in Implementing the 2030 Agenda

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) put forward the vision and priorities for global sustainable development and calls on governments and all businesses to be creative and innovative in addressing sustainability challenges such as poverty, health, education, climate change and environmental degradation and so on.

Business integrating sustainable development into strategies, goals and operations throughout joint efforts, contributes to achieving comprehensive transformation, identifying future opportunities, enhancing the value of sustainable development, and better managing the economic, social and environmental risks and opportunities.

Moderator:

Mr. Dai Yande  Former Director and Researcher of Energy Research Institute, NDRC

Panelists:

 Dr. Weiming Jiang, President of DSM China, Senior Executive Vice President of DSM Global

 Mr. Quan Shengming, Secretary-General, Corporate Management Association, State Grid Corporation of China

 Dr. Zheng Daqing, Senior Vice President, Business & Market Development Greater China, BASF

 Mr. Wu Fapei, Vice President, CIMC Group

 Ms. Yang Xiaoping, President of BP China, Chairperson of BP (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

 Mr. Huang Xiaojun, Vice President and Managing Director, Veolia China.

Closing Remarks

Mr. WANG Jiming, President of CBCSD