
In line with the trend of global sustainable development, in order to promote the dissemination and practice of ESG concepts, on the afternoon of October 17, Shanghai Association of Foreign Investment held the "2023 ESG Forum for Foreign-Invested Enterprises" in Hongqiao Green Valley Square. Dr. Lu Jianzhong, Director of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Vice President of China CSR Think Tank, and Mr. Gao Peng, Deputy Director of Corporate Partnerships of EDF Beijing Representative Office, and nearly 150 other relevant leaders, experts and business representatives attended the conference. Leverage Vice President Mr. Fei Cheng was also invited to attend the meeting.


This forum is divided into two parts: keynote speech and roundtable discussion. In the keynote speech, Dr. Lu Jianzhong, Director of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Vice Chairman of the China CSR Think Tank, gave a keynote speech entitled "Global ESG and Sustainable Supply Chain Trend Insight", saying that the current supply chain is facing multiple and complex challenges such as old and new challenges, risks and opportunities, ESG has a significant impact on sustainable supply chains from three aspects: environmental, social and governance.

Gao Peng, Deputy Director of Corporate Partnerships at EDF Beijing Representative Office, delivered the keynote speech "The Path to Net Zero: The Innovation Imperative", pointing out that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to start from three directions: climate technology, behavior change, and natural climate solutions, among which climate technology is the key to achieving zero carbon goals.


The two experts who spoke later shared ESG practices from the consumer goods industry and the chemical industry respectively.

In the roundtable discussion session, guests from research institutions, third-party evaluation agencies, manufacturing and consumer goods industry representatives held a dialogue on the topic of "Implementing ESG concept to build a sustainable development ecology of enterprises". First of all, the guests affirmed the leading positioning of multinational enterprises, state-owned enterprises and central enterprises in the field of ESG, and then shared their practical experience and thoughts on hot issues such as green electricity procurement, carbon emission accounting system construction, ESG key topics, difficulties and challenges faced by enterprises in carrying out ESG, scope three carbon reduction priorities, and ESG performance differences of domestic and foreign enterprises, current and future challenges are explored and innovative solutions are proposed.

This forum brought together a number of sustainable development leaders of foreign-invested enterprises and experts in the field of ESG and sustainable development, shared the latest global ESG trends and corporate ESG practical experience, and provided foreign enterprises with a valuable opportunity to exchange and inspire each other with their peers and industry experts, encouraging more enterprises to integrate sustainable development into their future strategies and operations.
Leverage as a clean, transparent and responsible third party supply chain management service company, It is also the certification body of the National Certification and Accreditation Administration (CNCA-R-2020-707), the inspection and certification body of the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS IB0605), the member unit of the LCA Life Cycle Green Management Professional Committee, and the auditing body of AA1000 sustainable Report. as well as the member of many international organizations such as UNGC, UNEP, SAI, etc., with rich experience in corporate social responsibility, ESG, compliance, climate action, etc. We can provide enterprises with ESG report compilation and verification, corporate social responsibility solutions, ISO management system certification (ISO9001/37301/14001/45001), group carbon verification, product carbon footprint calculation, carbon neutral solution, such as service, look forward to working with business partners to join hands in promoting the development of ESG, we wish to help enterprises to operate sustainably.
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