context: Ahead of COP28 (United Nations climate conference), Chen Ying 陈迎 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, underscores China's commitment to global development and climate action through the 'three major global initiatives', and hails the importance of cooperation and inclusive development in achieving sustainable outcomes.
Chen Ying 陈迎 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences discusses China's proposal for the 'three major global initiatives' aimed at promoting global development and addressing climate change within the Party's framework of 'building a community with a shared future for mankind'.
The initiatives include speeding up rollout of the UN 2030 SDGs (sustainable development goals), jointly promoting global development to a new stage of balance, coordination and inclusiveness and adhering to common, comprehensive and inclusive development. She stresses cooperative and sustainable security respecting the diversity of world civilisations, noting this has gained widespread support from the Global South.
She highlights that addressing climate change is a vital component of the UN SDGs and a key focus for global development initiatives. She suggests that under the framework of the 'three major global initiatives', the Global South can only achieve win-win cooperation by working together to jointly address climate change and leveraging the initiative and creativity of all countries.