MBA Education Management Center, UCAS

On January 11-12, 2024, an international conference "Building the Green, Digital and Inclusive City of the 21st Century" was held online. The conference was jointly organized by the China Data Analysis and Research Hub (CDA), the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, and the Carter Center.

The conference focused on regional and global resource use in cities, sustainable regeneration of resources in urban planning, the impact of sea level rise on metropolises, mitigating the urban heat island effect, sustainable transportation in cities of the future, addressing climate change through inclusive dialogue, and the role of digitization in urban problem solving, with a view to providing innovative ideas and solutions for building the green, digital and inclusive city.

The meeting on January 11 was co-chaired by Alexander G. WELZL, President of CDA, and Yongmiao Hong, Dean of the School of Economics and Management, UCAS. On January 12 the conference was co-chaired by Alexander G. WELZL and Ping Lyu, Vice Dean of the School of Economics and Management, UCAS. A number of guests were invited to exchange and share their research results, namely, Curt GARRIGAN, Chief, Sustainable Urban Development Section, Environment and Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; Linxiu ZHANG, Director of the United Nations Environment Programme-International Ecosystem Management Partnership; Ji GAO, Director of Energy and Nature, U.S. Environmental Defense Fund, EDF Beijing Representative Office; Li ZHU, President of APEC Sustainable Energy Center (APSEC); Steivan DEFILLA, President Assistant of APSEC; Enrique NACIF, Founder and Managing Director of Green Legacy GmbH; Alexander TRAUTH-GOIK, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna; Robert MAVSAR, Director of the European Forest Institute (EFI); Dragana MARINA, Sustainability Research Lead, Copenhagen, Denmark and Head of Research and Data Intelligence, CBRE Denmark; David J. FIRESTEIN, President and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation; Vojko Bratina, Policy Officer, Science and Technology Section, Delegation of the European Union to China; Gary Li, Director and Head of Tech Solutions and Sustainability, CBRE China; Professor David Qingzhong Pan, Executive Dean of the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University; Morgan DESPRÉS, Executive Director at the European Climate Foundation (ECF); Henry Tillman, CEO of Alyana International, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Winston Ma, Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law; Mr. Xiaojun (Dennis) HUANG, Executive Vice President of Bank of China ,U.S. Branches; Teresa Czerwinska, Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB); Stephen I. ADLER, former mayor of the City of Austin, Texas, United States;Emilly FAN, Schwarzman Scholar.

Finally, Barbara Smith of the Carter Center and Ali Zaidi, National Climate Advisor to the President of the United States and Director of the White House Office of Climate Policy, made concluding remarks, bringing the two-day conference to a successful conclusion.

（by Haijuan Wang）