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Ministerial Statement Addresses Plastic Pollution, Plastic Trade
30 Nov 2021
The statement highlights the role of trade in achieving sustainable development and the SDGs, and expresses concern over the increasing “environment, biodiversity, health and economic costs of plastic pollution”. Its proponents agree to support global efforts by, inter alia, “identifying ways to improve the understanding of global trade in plastics” and sharing experiences on how to move towards a more circular, resource-efficient, and environmentally sustainable plastics trade. The statement also notes “the value and importance” of engaging with stakeholders.
Ministerial Statement Seeks to Phase out Fossil Fuel Subsidies
30 Nov 2021
The statement recognizes that the WTO can play a central role in addressing inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, which lead to “wasteful consumption” and put renewable energy and investment in energy efficiency at a disadvantage. The statement’ proponents will develop “concrete options to advance this issue” at the WTO ahead of MC13.
Ministerial Statement Highlights Environmental Sustainable Trade
30 Nov 2021
The draft ministerial statement was circulated on 15 Nov 2021 at the request of 57 WTO members. The launch of the statement was delayed after the WTO’s Twelfth Ministerial Conference, due to start on 30 November, was postponed because of travel restrictions linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Luo Xiang: Combining with the current national situation, it is more important to promote impact investment
12 Nov 2021
"Personally, I think I would prefer to promote social impact investment, or impact investing, in China, in the context of the current national conditions in China. There is both an overlap between it and ESG investment, but still a big difference." At the 12th Caixin Summit on November 12, 2021, with the theme of "Impact Investment: Doing Good", Luo Rong, Co-Vice Chairman of the Impact Investment and Sourcing Foundation, spoke about his views on impact investment from his own experience.
Caixin Cloud Conference | ESG: A New Driving Force for Sustainable Business Development
27 Oct 2021
Caixin Cloud Conference invited authoritative ESG industry experts to discuss which ESG trends Chinese companies should focus on when going global, and how to develop ESG strategies and implement ESG practices to further help Chinese companies improve their international soft power and align with the latest international ESG concepts. Speakers included: Luo Xiang, Co-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Neutral Initiative and former Head of UNOPS China; Zhu Rui, Professor of Marketing, Director of the Center for Social Innovation and Brand Research, Academic Director of the EMBA Program and Top Management Education Program, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; Tang Shaogui, Vice President of WuXi Biotechnology and Head of Corporate Communication and Public Affairs; etc.
SII Vice Chairman Luo Xiang: ESG is still in its "initial stage" and will get new momentum
16 Sep 2020
According to Luo, the current domestic ESG market environment is characterized by four features: the first point is that there is not enough dissemination of ESG in China, not many people really understand ESG, and there is a lack of awareness of ESG among enterprises and investors; the second point is that the standards are incomplete, and enterprises lack practical and feasible standards for practice; the third point is that the team is insufficient, and there is no professional ESG operation team, which leads to no practice direction for enterprises with ESG will; the fourth point is that there is a lack of channels, and there is a lack of channels to build bridges between ESG projects and enterprises, and between enterprises and investors.