国内英语资讯:Spotlight: Chinese, American scholars call for cooperation on ecological civilization at Int_时事

国内英语资讯:Spotlight: Chinese, American scholars call for cooperation on ecological civilization at Int

"This is a really important time in the history of our planet. We have an increasingly short amount of time in order to be able to take real, concerted effort to address the climate crisis, and our countries have an opportunity to collaborate and cooperate to reduce the impact of industry and agriculture in order to form the ecological civilization," said Brain G. Henning, Professor of Department of Environmental Studies at the Gonzaga University.

"It's clear to us now that no country will be unaffected by the changes to our climate. I live in Washington State and the wild fires each year are getting worse and worse. And this is causing people all over our country to realize that we need to take climate change seriously and to reduce the carbon pollution in our environment," he added.

Some Chinese scholars introduced the latest development of China's ecological civilization construction, emphasizing the importance and necessity of cooperation in the field.

In her plenary speech, Dr. Fan Meijun, program director of Institute for Postmodern Development of China, argued that new education model is urgently needed to cultivate persons who serve the local community, serve the ecological civilization.

Fan stressed that ecological civilization is a huge project which needs countries to work more in-depth cooperation.

"In this sense, the cooperation between China, the second largest economy, and the United States, the largest one, is extremely important," she noted.