Synergies of mining and resource cooperation along the belt and road under the carbon neutrality landscape
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Start Time:2022-05-27 16:20 (Asia/Shanghai)

Duration:20min

Session:[S2] Environmental Science and Engineering » [S2-3] Theme 5 & 6

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Abstract
ABSTRACT: The mining industry provides material and energy for mankind, and supports the prosperity and socio-economic development of the world. At present, the globalization of mineral resource development and its environmental problems are becoming increasingly prominent, and the international community has increasingly higher expectations and requirements for the development and utilization of sustainable mineral resources. In the context of the international consensus of accelerating the realization of global carbon neutrality, the socio-economic systemic changes required by the construction of ecological civilization and global energy transition will also put forward higher and greener requirements for the development and utilization of mineral resources. Guided by the systemic, holistic, and synergistic development concept in Xi Jinping’s thought on ecological progress, promoting the “Belt and Road” green mining and mineral resources cooperation could create complex synergies for China to build a “mineral resource power” and achieve the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, to accelerate global carbon neutrality in order to achieve the 2°C target of the Paris Agreement, to promote economic and trade cooperation on the “Belt and Road”, as well as to create “a community of green energy with a shared future” and jointly implement the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals has compound synergy significance.
 
Keywords
ecological civilization; carbon neutrality; Belt and Road; mining and resources cooperation; resource-power country; complex synergies
Speaker
Yanzhu ZHANG
Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China;German Development Institute

I am a Senior Programme Manager in Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, and currently a visiting researcher in German Development Institute while holding a German Chancellor Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. My main research interest is public policy in global environmental governance.

I am a professional in International Development with eight-year experience of study and employment outside of mainland China. My work experience includes positions in academic institutions, international organizations as well as national government. I am the author or co-author of a dozen of journal articles and stakeholder reports, and recipient of numerous scholarships from China mainland, Hong Kong (China), European Commission and United Kingdom, including prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarship and Oxford University scholarship. I received the Best Thesis Award in EU Erasmus Mundus International Master’s program in Industrial Ecology. In my work experience, I contributed to four UN development projects and three World Bank projects. Since joining the national government, I have been rotated in several roles and gained multi-task experience in the FECO of MEE of P.R.China. In 2021, I received the German Chancellor Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct one-year (2021-2022) fellowship research project in Germany.

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