Topic: 2025 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference & First Green Industry and Sustainable Consumption Expo The 2025 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference took place from October 16 to 18 in the Expo Park of Huangpu District, Shanghai. CICC's Director General and Head of the Green Economy Group, Chen Ji, moderated a dialogue themed "Green Openness and International Cooperation," featuring participants such as the Pakistani Ambassador to China, Khalil Rahman Hashmi; the Barbadian Ambassador, Harcourt Henry; Matko Niavro, Dean of the Zagreb School of Economics and Management and Co-Founder of the Luxembourg School of Business; David Maury, CEO of the Australia-China Business Council (Tasmania) and former Vice Chair of the UN Asia-Pacific Sustainable Business Network; and Miklós Losonczi, former Dean of the Business and Entrepreneurship Doctoral School at Budapest Business School. During the dialogue, Chen Ji connected the viewpoints of various international guests with a clear framework, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of green transformation to foster consensus on cooperation.

At the onset of the dialogue, Chen Ji addressed the global challenges of the green transition: the current world is rife with geopolitical crises, economic slowdowns, and rising tariffs, which pose increasing geopolitical, economic, and trade barriers to green transformation. He also emphasized China's position: China firmly supports the global green transition and plays an essential role in advancing global low-carbon cooperation. "Achieving green development, international openness, and international cooperation is critically important for today's world," stated Chen Ji. "While ensuring their own energy security, countries must seek ways to remove barriers and achieve win-win cooperation; it is crucial to find methods to break through current bottlenecks, eliminate all barriers, and strengthen cooperation in response to complex global crises." He subsequently outlined three core issues: global transformative policies, economic transformation drivers, and future international cooperation opportunities. During the policy discussion segment, Chen Ji engaged with guests on topics such as how developing countries can balance economic growth and green transition, strategies for small island nations in addressing climate crises, and policy shifts in global climate action.

Chen Ji remarked that besides policy-driven incentives, economic motivations play a vital role, particularly the economic value generated by the green economy. Another significant driving force is economic factors—under fragmented global markets, the deployment of green technology faces considerable challenges. In this regard, Chen Ji invited guests to share their countries' incentive measures from an investor's perspective. Towards the end of the dialogue, Chen Ji invited participants to summarize their outlook on the future of cooperation with China in a single sentence, concluding the discussion around advancing international cooperation consensus. Chen Ji emphasized that green development cannot be achieved by individual countries acting alone; instead, it requires collective efforts to seek development.