9 December 2015

University of Edinburgh Business School recently welcomed a delegation of sustainability leaders from the UK and China for a summit on low-carbon accounting. Watch the video now.

The meeting was the second held in partnership with Guanghua School of Management, Peking University – the School’s strategic partner in China. It followed the World Forum on Natural Capital which took place in Edinburgh in advance of the UN’s Climate Action conference, COP21, in Paris.

Led by experts from the School’s Centre for Business & Climate Change, the summit brought together senior officials from industry, government and academia to discuss future research and commercial collaborations between the UK and China in low carbon investment, natural capital and carbon accounting.

It also featured keynote addresses from former Chair of UK Parliament Energy and Climate Change Committee and United Nations Environment Programme advisor Ivo Mulder.

The summit is the latest development in the Business School’s strategic partnership with Guanghua to share expertise in carbon finance, strategic leadership, financial innovation and economics.

Earlier this year, the Business School also lent its academic expertise to support a new US-China partnership to develop new carbon capture and storage (CCUS) technologies in collaboration with China’s Guangdong CCUS Centre.