Prof. Li Zheng, vice president of the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development (ICCSD) at Tsinghua University, presented the progress of nature-based solutions (NbS) in China at the C+NbS annual meeting 2020.

Invited by the United Nations, China, co-leads the NbS coalition initiated in September 2019, together with New Zealand. In order to shape and promote the concept, ICCSD set up the C+NbS platform, receiving support from TNC, aimed at multi-stakeholders collective wisdom to contribute China’s solutions to global NbS discussion.

ICCSD is a climate-focused think-do tank founded in October 2017. It’s inaugural president, Mr. XIE Zhenhua, is China’s Special Advisor on Climate. ICCSD is an open and synergetic platform for interdisciplinary research, talent training and policy dialogues. It aims to provide solutions to global climate change and sustainability challenges, and to propose coordinated goals, strategies, pathways, and policies to decision-makers in China. ICCSD currently serves as the inaugural Secretariat of Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC).
ABOUT | http://iccsd.tsinghua.edu.cn/ Professor，Executive Vice President of Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development (ICCSD), Tsinghua University This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx