November 27, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, the Third Dean’s Forum of Environment Schools held online, with a focus on Resource Recycling and Low-Carbon Development.

Mr. GUO Jing, Chairman of Board, BRI International Green Development Coalition, and Former Director-General, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Mr. TANG Jiafu, Party Secretary and Deputy Director of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Ms. HUANG Hong, Vice Chairwoman of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, Deputy Director of Shanghai Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, Prof. Norhaiza Nordin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Prof. Adalberto Noyola, Representative to China, National Autonomous University of Mexico and Prof. LYU Peiming, Executive Vice President of Tongji University attended the opening ceremony.

Prof. DUAN Ning, Academician of Chinses Academy of Engineering, from College of Environmental Science and Engineering of Tongji University and Prof. David Chiaramonti, Vice Rector of Polytechnic University of Turin respectively made keynote presentations on the theme of  Realtime Monitoring Instrument Implementing Cleaner Production in Copper Smelting Industry  and  Energy Economics and Low-carbon Development.

At the closed-door meeting of the alliance, after careful discussion, 5 domestic universities and 8 international universities were officially added as new members of the alliance. Finally, the alliance collectively discussed and officially released the Joint Research Proposal for a Green Belt and Road Initiative, marking the successful completion of this meeting.

In 2018, Tongji University initiated the Alliance of Environment Deans and launched the Dean’s Forum of Environment Schools, aiming at forging a joint research network that could provide science and policy recommendations for green development, as well as sharing knowledge, data, and analysis, through South-South Cooperation mechanism. Since the inception of the Alliance of Environment Deans, 63 universities from 34 countries collaborated with fruitful exchange and cooperation activities.