The 2024 Earth Hour event in Ordos, China, was successfully held
On March 23, the "2024 Earth Hour" home city event in Ordos, China, co-sponsored by the Publicity and Education Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Beijing Representative Office of the World Wide Fund for Nature (Switzerland), and the Ordos Municipal People's Government, and undertaken by the Ordos Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, was held in Dongsheng District, China. Panda Charity Market and other public activities.
On the morning of the 23rd, nearly 100 government representatives, industry experts, enterprises and media representatives in the fields of climate response and energy transition gathered together to discuss the path of green, low-carbon and high-quality development. Zheng Jinyang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, shared the innovation and industrial development trend of hydrogen energy technology from a regional and global perspective, and Pan Jiahua, a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, made a strategic analysis of the 2035 nationally determined contribution target in the process of transitioning away from fossil fuels from the perspective of the UAE Consensus. Representatives from all parties discussed and shared topics such as "local practices of low-carbon development", "green transformation" and "climate innovation". Discuss the situation, existing challenges, accumulated experience and future innovative solutions for the low-carbon development and construction of beautiful cities.
Pei Xiaofei, spokesperson of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and director of the Department of Publicity and Education, attended the event and delivered a speech. He stressed that achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality is the key to:practiceNear-flatThe major strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee with comrades at the core after careful consideration is an inevitable choice to focus on solving the outstanding problems of resource and environmental constraints and realizing the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and it is also a solemn commitment to build a community with a shared future for mankind. The "Earth Hour" China's home city event was held in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, showcasing China's determination and achievements in tackling climate change and promoting green and low-carbon development. He emphasized that everyone is a protector, builder and beneficiary of the ecological environment, and hoped that everyone will contribute to the construction of a better home on earth with practical actions.
Du Huiliang, deputy secretary of the Ordos Municipal Party Committee and mayor, said that in recent years, Ordos has practiced deeplypracticeNear-flatEcological civilization ideology andpracticeNear-flatThe spirit of the general secretary's important instructions to Inner Mongolia is to focus on two major events, resolutely shoulder the major mission of ensuring national energy security, building an important ecological security barrier in northern China, and promoting green development, systematically promote ecological green, low-carbon production, and energy conservation in life, and unswervingly follow a new path of high-quality development oriented by ecological priority and green development. At present, Ordos is accelerating to become a world-class new energy industry, green manufacturing cluster and an important source of technological innovation in the field of "double carbon" and energy.
Zhou Fei, Deputy Director-General of WWF-Switzerland, pointed out that at the end of last year, at the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international community reached the "UAE Consensus", which for the first time formally included relevant expressions such as reducing the use of fossil fuels in the General Assembly resolution, proposing to "accelerate efforts to gradually reduce coal-fired power without emission control measures". This is a milestone that is seen as the beginning of a gradual phase-out of the fossil fuel era, meaning that humanity will eventually end up relying on fossil fuels in the future.
Fan Mingshi, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Department of Ecology and Environment of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said that at present, Inner Mongolia has built a series of policy systems for carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and is promoting the transformation from "dual control" of energy consumption to "dual control" of carbon emissions. The ecological environment system of the autonomous region will always keep in mind the "great power of the country", comprehensively strengthen the "six overall plans", deeply practice ecological priority and green development, promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth in a coordinated manner, accelerate the formation of green and low-carbon industrial competitive advantages, promote the organic integration of high-quality development and high-level protection, realize the effective connection between the dual carbon goal and independent action, and make positive contributions to comprehensively telling the story of China's environmental protection and creating a leading demonstration of a beautiful China.
In the afternoon, the guests and media reporters went to the Ordos Zero Carbon Industrial Park for research. With a high proportion of clean energy consumption as the core goal, the park adopts large-scale renewable energy development, large-scale electrochemical energy storage construction, high-proportion industrial waste energy utilization, Internet of Things smart energy management and energy and carbon management and other measures to provide industry demonstration for the large-scale project promotion, industrialization technology improvement and key mode breakthroughs of green microgrids in the industrial field.
At 8 o'clock in the evening of the same day, the lights-out ceremony of "Earth Hour" with Inner Mongolia characteristics was officially held in Dongsheng District, Ordos City, and the event invited Deng Yaping, a public figure, to recite the "Ten Citizens' Ecological Environment Code of Conduct" revised by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other five departments in 2023 with children, calling on everyone to be an active disseminator and model practitioner of the concept of ecological civilization.
During this event, Wang Sibo, a light painting artist, led the local citizens to create light painting works in the Ordos Museum, Library, Grand Theater and other places, calling on all sectors of society to participate in and pay more attention to the protection of the earth's natural ecology.
Yan Shidong, Deputy Director of the Publicity and Education Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, attended the lights-out event and delivered a speech, calling on everyone to take action, starting from extinguishing unnecessary lights, starting from my one-hour ecological environment volunteer service for the earth, promoting innovation, strengthening connections, promoting sharing, and jointly building a beautiful China and welcoming a better and more sustainable future!
Ji Rimutu, Deputy Mayor of Ordos Municipal People's Government, attended the lights-out event and delivered a speech. At the lights-out event, the National Ecological and Environmental Volunteer Service Network initiated by the Publicity and Education Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment was officially established, advocating the public to actively participate in the practice of ecological environmental volunteer service, and conveying this determination, action and dedication.
It is understood that the "Earth Hour" activity advocates individuals, communities, enterprises and governments to turn off the lights for one hour from 20:30 to 21:30 on the last Saturday of March every year to express their concern for nature and support for environmental protection with actions. This event was held for the first time in Ordos City, an important node city of the ecological protection and high-quality development strategy of the Yellow River Basin, which fully reflected the confidence and determination of the whole city of Ordos to firmly accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation, fully demonstrated the achievements of Ordos City's ecological environment construction and ecological environmental protection, and called on all sectors of society to contribute to the promotion of global environmental and climate governance with practical actions, and help "nature for good" and the dual carbon goals.
