China News Service, Shanghai, November 9 (Yang Shuo) "Promoting green transformation is a common issue that all countries must answer to achieve high-quality development. The international community needs to build consensus and deepen cooperation more than ever." Zheng Qinghua, Secretary of the Party Committee of Tongji University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in Shanghai on the 9th.
On the same day, the 2026 Global Environment and Sustainable Development Conference and the Yangtze River Delta Green Technology Innovation Week opened at the Water Village Living Room and Fangting Water Courtyard in the Yangtze River Delta Eco-green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone. More than 400 experts and scholars from more than 40 countries and regions gathered together to discuss the practical path of green transformation around the theme of "Green Transformation and Global Environmental Governance: Green Technology, Zero-Carbon Future and Industrial Transformation".
At the meeting, the International Cooperation Platform, the permanent site of the Global Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, was officially launched, building a normal communication and cooperation carrier for global green transformation. Two results were simultaneously implemented on site: Tongji University's School of Environmental Science and Engineering signed an international scientific research and talent training cooperation agreement with the Agricultural College of the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, and Tongji University signed an industry-education integration cooperation agreement with the Yangtze River Delta Investment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., marking the conference's international cooperation from mechanism establishment to the project implementation stage.
At the main forum of the conference, Ren Yong, former chief engineer of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Xu Zuxin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Tongji University, and other experts gave keynote reports, sharing cutting-edge research results around global environmental governance, low-carbon transformation, climate investment and financing and other topics.
In the roundtable forum, participating Chinese and foreign scholars conducted exchanges around the two major directions of global environmental governance and regional green practice, sorted out the common experiences of global environmental governance processes, scientific assessments, and policy convergence. At the same time, they focused on the industrial reality of the Yangtze River Delta and conducted discussions on green computing power collaboration, zero-carbon park system solutions, industry-education integration and open innovation, etc., to promote the implementation of global governance concepts in local industrial scenarios.
It is understood that from November 10th to 11th, the conference will also hold special activities such as green technology release, China-EU ESG Forum, zero-carbon park cooperation matchmaking meeting, and simultaneously launch the "Green Future" sustainable innovation exhibition. At the closing ceremony, the "Yangtze River Delta Green and Low-Carbon Innovation Technology List" will be officially released to continue to promote the implementation and transformation of green scientific and technological innovation achievements.
