14:00 - 15:30
During the 18th Chinese Communist Party National Congress, China’s leaders emphasized the need to build an ecological civilization. This session will bring together different stakeholders who “Change Finance” and “Finance Change” in China to discuss various key issues including how to implement ecological civilization policies through the finance sector, how finance creating enabling conditions for green economy, as well as how investment in nature can foster sustainable development. Apart from the financial institutions and their regulators, the session will also include the voices from the value chain of the financial sector, as well as the recommendations from policy makers and academics, to reveal the shape of China’s development of sustainable finance. The session will try to identity the “urgent needs” in China on this issue and the actions to be taken.
Moderator
- Dr. Jun Wang, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank
Speakers:
- Mr. Guang Xia, Director, Policy Research Centre for Environment and Economy, Ministry of Environment Protection
- Mr. Yanfei Ye, Deputy Director General, Statistics Department of China Banking Regulatory Commission
- Mr. Shaozhong Du, Chairman, China Beijing Environmental Exchange
- Mr. Shuaihua Cheng, Senior Programme Officer, Head of Asia Pacific and China at International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
