On November 26th , the forum, hosted by the National Center for Schooling Development Programme, and Fujian Provincial Department of Education, and undertaken by FNU, was held at the Hongda Hall on FNU’s Qishan Campus. FNU Vice President Yang Yusheng attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Nearly 300 experts and scholars from government departments, universities, and research institutions in countries and regions like China, Canada, Australia, Republic of Korea, Republic of South Sudan, Thailand, Hong Kong, including Yang Chao, Chairman of the China Green Carbon Foundation, and former Chief Economist of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Chen Deliang, foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, academician of the World Academy of Sciences, and a professor at University of Gothenburg (Sweden), attended the event online or offline.
In his address, Yang Yusheng said that FNU has long attached great importance to research on the field of resource ecology and green development, has systematically integrated the resources, technologies, and talents in disciplines such as geography, environment, biology, and ecology, and has achieved significant results in supporting regional high-quality development in areas such as regional response to climate change, forest carbon cycling, natural disaster prevention, and ecosystem carbon measurement. He expressed his hope that through the forum, consensus will be further consolidated, wisdom will be gathered, and collective efforts will be mobilized to advance in-depth exploration and practice of peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality, and make new and greater contributions to the construction of green development of Belt and Road and the global endeavor for ecological civilization.
The forum consisted of invited talks and 4 parallel sessions. A total of 35 high-level academic presentations were arranged focusing on such topics as “Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles in Terrestrial Ecosystems,” “Climate, Environmental Change and Human Adaptation,” “Earth System Model and Big Data Applications,” and “Disaster Risk and Emergency Management.”
(Translated by Yi Zining/ Reviewed by Xie Xiujuan)