CCI participated in the 2nd Forum on ESG Investments and Free Trade Port Construction

September 7-8, 2023, the 2nd Forum on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investments and Free Trade Port Construction was held in Sanya, Hainan, under the theme of "Sustainable Development, Green Future".

Guided by the Sanya Municipal People's Government and Hainan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, sponsored by the Sanya Economic Research Institute and Sanya Central Business District Administration, and co-sponsored by the China Federation of Industrial Economics, the forum had gathered representatives from over 100 listed companies and more than 70 investors to jointly discuss the pathways for ESG development of China the high-quality development of Hainan Free Trade Port.

OGCI China Climate Investments (CCI), as a strategic partner, took part in this forum, and Mr. Zhou Aiguo, Director of the CCI Strategy Committee, delivered a keynote speech on "Climate Investment and ESG Empowerment" at the opening session, sharing the challenges and opportunities of ESG to the industrial economy and introducing CCI's ESG practices in the investment field. According to Zhou's speech, climate investment is the responsibility investment first of all, and at the same time, it shall maximize the return rate for investors; value investment is the sustainable development foundation of responsibility investment, and responsibility investment can bring more value-adding space for value investment; ESG is not a burden, but an empowerment.

This forum focused on such topics as "Green Development and Hainan Free Trade Port Construction", "Free Trade Port Carbon Trading Ecosphere Construction", "ESG Market Opportunities", "ESG Evaluation and Investments", "Free Trade Port Tourism Industry ESG Development" and "REIT Innovation and Development".

 The forum selected outstanding enterprises from various fields to roadshow, focusing on national strategies, technical frontiers, innovation advantages and development prospects, building an investment exchange and cooperation platform for high-quality enterprises, entrepreneurial projects and investors. Relevant functional departments were invited to comprehensively interpret the policy advantages, regional advantages and industrial development opportunities of the free trade port to broaden investment channels, speed up project construction, push investment landing, promote scientific and technological innovation, optimize the business environment and help industrial upgrading.

The forum launched the China ESG Development Index Report for the first time, fully reflecting ESG information disclosure, ESG performance and ESG development indexes of listed companies in China. Combined with the information disclosure and performance of listed companies and typical ESG investment cases of investors, "China TSG Cases" was released, comprehensively building and enhancing the influence of free trade ports in ESG at home and abroad.