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>> LI YUXIAO: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Welcome to this forum of digital technology empowering green and low‑carbon development. It's my ‑‑ first, on behalf of the organizer, I would like to extend warm welcome to our distinguished experts and audience here and online. This forum focuses on the critical intersection between the digital technology and green‑carbon development. In order to have my speakers we're asked today, seven of them were joining on site and two will join remotely.
As you can see from the agenda, we have a very packed, but exciting program ahead. To kick off the forum, please let me invite the General Director of the bureau of information technology development Cyberspace Administration of China to deliver the opening remarks. Welcome.
>> LONG KAI: Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Welcome to the 19th IGF forum on green and low‑carbon development. It's a quick pleasure to meet all of you here on behalf of the bureau of digitalization development, cyberspace administration of China. I would like to express our gratitude for your participation. I would also like to extend special thanks to Saudi Arabia, this year's host country for IGF for their extraordinary work and dedicated work for this forum. The Chinese government places great importance on the coordination between digitalization and green transformation and its committed to promoting the empowerment of free and low carbon development fly the adoption of technologies. Thigh have economic and technology corporation, accelerating of digitalization and green transformation and the west operating of resources and industrial structures and consumption patterns to foster great, social economic development. The 20th national congress proposed that we will support enterprises in operating traditional industry with AI and growing technologies. In July 2024, the policy document lies on accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of storm, ecological development which further outlines the acceleration of coordination between digital transformation and green technology. In recent years, China has launched the action plans on the coordination between digitalization and wind technology focusing on main tasks. First promoting wind and low‑carbon development of digital industry. Second, the ranging digital technologies to empower wind, transformation of traditional industries. Third, driving a development of the digital industry through the green transformation of traditional industries. To achieve these goals, a set of initiatives have been implemented including pilot projects intensities in China by. So far the efforts has gained significant results for reputable and scalable examples. We believe that digitalization and green transformation are increasingly becoming notable trends in the global development. They show that digital technologies can integrate with a set of key sectors such as energy, power, industry, transportation and constructions in carbon reduction. These integration effectively enhances the efficiency of energy and resource utilization playing a pivotal road in the green transformation of traditional industry from global perspective, it is coordination that's become key driving forces of sustainable global. I would like to share a few insights. First, innovation drives development. We need to foster technology innovation and application the coordination between digitalization and wind technology. This includes fundamental research and the deployment of cutting edge technologies enhancing enterprises as the primary driver of technology innovation promoting commercialization of technology and continuously training industries and (?). Particular focus should be placed on the development and promotion of energy saving and carbon row deucing technologies in the set of areas such as data Sanders, communication base stations and the manufacturing of electronic products to facilitate the great and low‑carbon development of the digital industry. Second, integration ways to development. Digital technologies can provide network, digitized and intelligent tools for green transformation, contributing to reduced energy consumption and carbon emissions. Efforts should be made to accelerate diffusion and wind transformation forming the design integration of emerging technologies such as Internet, data, Artificial Intelligence and 5G with green and low‑carbon industries. It is key sectors such as industry, energy, construction and transportation shifting from high carbon to low carbon and low end to high end. Openness makes development neutrally beneficial. Digitalization and green transformation are shared opportunities for countries all over the world. We should fully deepen and expand the lateral and bilateral corporation and dispute. This includes transitioning the technical rules and standards promoting policy coordination, technology communication, objects and collaboration and talent training. We hope this will become a key element to when the shared future of humanity.
Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, this forum has an excellent discussion between digitalization and wind development. Gathering professors, experts and scholars and representatives from around the world. That is deep communication, and better insight into the best practice in this field contributing to the shared feature and the beautiful earth. Finely, I wish this forum great success. Thank you, all.
>> LI YUXIAO: Thank you, Director Long Kai for your insightful remarks. Now, let me invite professor Peng Gang and Vice President to the neighbor opening remarks. Please welcome.
>> PENG GANG: Distinguished guests and esteemed guests from all over the world, morning. It's a pleasure to meet all of you here on the 19th IGF. This forum has a great chance to have a discussion of leveraging digital technology for great and low‑carbon development. On behalf of the university, I want to extend my warmest welcome and sincere gratitude to all the experts and guests here.
Green and low‑carbon development in the digital era is a focusing topic of global governance in today's world. Today's President has emphasized that green and low‑carbon transformation is a key to high quality development. In July 2024, the Chinese government issued the accelerating comprehensive green transformation of social economic development advocating for deep integration of digitalization and element to drive this transition to convergence of the strategies quickly promote sustainable growth in China and global countries. Universities in leadership and sought should play a vital role in this agenda. Actually, we have prioritized research at intersections of digital technology and wind development. As one of China's pioneers in AI research and education, we have established institutions such as low‑carbon energy and carbon neutralities lay a solid foundation for exploration. And in the meantime, we also recognize the society challenges faced by digital technology. In 2019, we established an institute for intelligent society governance focusing on fundamental series and policy issues related to technologies and low‑carbon development. Over the past five years, the institute has made significant contributions to global intelligent governance, research and policy insights. With guidance from Cyberspace Administration of China, we are proud to gather experts from the United Nations, China, Singapore, Australia and other nations and global organizations. This forum aims to foster high‑level dialogue and collaboration and generating fresh ideas and global practice in digitalized elements. Regarding this issue, I would like to share key results with you. We should pay more attention to young talent. AI and green technologies have (?) outstanding talents in society awareness. Second, we should further enhance collaboration among stakeholders in the comes years, we would deepen partnerships in governments, industries and research institutions to address fundamental and practical challenges. Current innovation and application. We should promote global corporation with focuses on winds and international collaboration and technology communications, standards alignment and financial integration. We can further make the technology evolution more inclusive. I wish this forum great success. Thank you.
>> Thank you, President, for your inspiring speech. Let's tend to our distinguished panel of experts to share their insights ‑‑ the same today. Our first speaker is professor Gong Ke. And also Director of Chinese institute upon new generation with the development of strategies. Professor Gong, the floor is yours.
>> GONG KE: May I have my slides. So today, I'm going to discuss with you two questions. First, here is internal governance forum we talked about Internet, and technology. We talk about intelligence. So the first question is: What is the overarch goal of the digitalization? What is the overarch goal? What is the digitalization we want? So the second question is how to achieve these goals? So first, now today the world is in the course of two transitions. First, it's the decentralization. With the technology ‑‑ generative revolutionary general technology, the (?) profound way. But what is the problem for this? These transitions should not be a technology centered transition. People centered transition; however, the biggest facing to the humanity on earth and how to sustain the human life on the earth. So here is the 17 sustainable global sustainable goals. Common goals for humanity. Let's a common task for all country. So to the core issue of these goals is to balance the increasing of the human wellbeing and decreasing the nature cost. So these goals about human well beings and these goals about the major cost and these goals are linked to the human wellbeing and the major cost. So that's a core issue of the sustained event. This picture from IPC shows you industrial revolution in 19th century. The arch surface is increasing. It's increasing; however, if we move out over human exists and so on and so forth, we have to so this change of the temperature. That will average allowable asset millions of years. So the key issue is to say conditions of the earth for the humanity and that is a goal of the transition. That is a goal of transition. That's a human center digitalization. So this is not my personal opinion. That's a consensus of you (?) member stays 196, the member stays. Newly adoptable want fly compound to model and the first sentence of this global contact is digital technology, dramatically transforming. They're offer ‑‑ you have advancement of people in societies and for our (?) that hold on the premise of accelerate achievement of the sustained goals. It's the goals of the digitalization. And there's an objective. The first objective ‑‑ no. Anyway, the first objective ever the digital compact is to achieve, accelerate the achievement of the sustainable. Next page, please. Next page. Can we go to the next page? Okay. We have the goal of the decentralization. How to achieve this goal as mentioned. It is coordinated transformation of digital and green transformation, but to coordinate, we need the coordinated capacity. We have to turn these key technologists. I named 17 of them and the 17 sustained development goals and to turn this into so‑called digital capacity and sustainability capacity. Only with this we can achieve our goals. Capacity building. Mentioned probos. The question to achieve our goals. You have limitation of the time. Understanding the green transformation and setting ‑‑ so goal of these reaching a woman capacity with transformation, I feel so much. I stopped here.
>> LI YUXIAO: Thank you, professor, for your presentation. Next you two might copy ‑‑ there is a United Nations conference. He's also the head of the e‑Commerce. Welcome Mr. Frederickson. Please remember to show your slides.
>> TORBJON FREDRIKSSON: Thank you very much. Let me start by saying and expressing for allowing to contribute to this very important dialogue. The shift to low carbon and a more digital industry. And I will seek to be very brief, but I hope that participants can get access to the presentation afterwards. Let me see if I can gets to the next slide. Yes. Thank you.
The digital technologies are rapidly transforming our economy as has been said already. This is creating a much faster but at the same time, we know we have big digital behinds. In addition, we have the parental development of planetary boundaries being reached including from climate change but in many other areas as well. From that, it can very important to show the ICT is sustainable. We can see already the ICT sector is generating greenhouse gas emissions of similar magnitude as the aviation or shipping industry. China is very any other in this context because China is a giant in the digital economy. We have just a few examples on the slide showing the tremendous progress that China has made in digitalization and is now very important force for the globe in terms of digitalization. In the report, we take a life cycle approach to exploring fundamental foot print. We have been talking so far a lot about how digital technologists can help, but we need to recognize that digitalization in itself is generating a digital or environmental foot print. So we're looking in the report at the production sting, at the use stage and end of life stage of the life cycle. And we're looking at directed fix in terms of natural resource depletion, energy use, water use, greenhouse gas emissions and pollution and some others.
If we start with the production face, we think of digitalization of being ‑‑ to produce one laptop weighing around two kilos requires the extraction of 800 kilograms of knew research resources. We also see that the devices that we're using in the challenge economy are becoming more complex. When we use telephones about 5 years ago, we needed ten of the elements included in the periodic table. And now when we produce Smartphones of various kinds, we use 63 of the elements in the periodic table. That's more than half of all elements on earth. The same minerals when we prove the digital challenge are also the same that we ease to promote a more two transitions that we're witnessing towards low carbon is generating tremendous demands for minerals.
At the use phase, I'm zeroing in on the data centers. As we shift increasingly to computing intensity ‑‑ this generating a tremendous increase in the need for electricity and water. That are iced by data centers. The big data center operators can no longer keep this is having a strong impact both at the local level where data centers are located and, of course, if it generates more greenhouse gas innovations, it can have implications.
>> The third face is how we deal with the waste. Here we have seen a growing amount of waste being generated over the past decade or so and an increase by more than 30%. We can see the ‑‑ it is digitally ready economies. Firstly, a lot of the waste that is generated is not collected properly. Not collected formally. At the global level, only one quarter of all the digitalization related waste is currently collected formerly. In China, that share is any we have a long way to go to improve that situation.
One of the problems is that many developing captures lack proper legislation to organize the closing of waste. We need the report to move more towards a circular industry. The digital products currently is very singular and that increases the need more materials and reduces the ability to extract valuable materials from the digital we haves and servers that come to the end of life. This is something that requires a collective efforts across stakeholders and crease countries. We also need to address what we call the double bind of the developing countries. You can see that currently most develop countries have to, but many are not very successful in benefiting from the digital opportunities. So we need to deal with the costs of digitalization in terms of the requirement, but we need to continue to addressed environmental concerns.
Finally, let me say that in order for us to make progress, we need to work collectively. That's the previous speaker was saying, we have come to an agreement that the global level to work together to build the global digital compact. We need to better integrate what we do in the digital space and what we do in the environmental space. And we need to strengthen the capabilities of poorer countries to be able to develop and also benefit more from digitalization. I will end that and I will just ‑‑ for those interested in learning about this, and I thank you for allowing me.
>> LI YUXIAO: Thank you for your wonderful presentation. Welcome the Dean of the Saudi governments. Welcome, the floor is yours. Good morning good morning ladies and gentlemen, I am professor Gong Ke. First of all, (?) press my warm nothing to all of you. Thank you for coming. The information type of knowledge here, especially AI is ‑‑ we're informant in productivity and allow in them‑year society, it's coming. But as the English and mobile that are not raised, whether they want the best of times. It was the worst of times. AI also brings ‑‑ risks and challenges and they have established a platform institute I see folks in the (?). Many of we invested the social impact of AI, Chinese government launched a nationwide. A 92 is prime ‑‑ what's that? It is frozen and to my knowledge, this initiative is the largest school socio economic of AI application worldwide. According to return research, the risk takers. Including information reached. We have the organization. We also studied it. Some 61 cent such as the information or couldn't, platform, poem, energy consumption. Ever all this concept has been studied in my are am even the challenge here so we have digital technology. AI also have privilege potential to reduce energy consumption. Promoting low carb only develop especially in transition high‑energy consulted Directors. you have the industry and conserve ‑‑ industry and AI facilitate the transportation of that industry. Our research shows the coordinated transformation of digital and a green development can reduce energy consumption and promote low carbon development.
Ladies and gentlemen, the history of the society is the history of sands and technology development. Intelligent society is an amazing page. AI is one of our greatest mention of online.
The greatest funniest was remarked, concerned for man himself and his feet must always find the chief ‑‑ technical enables. Overcome these technologies is a tough work. It is not technology itself, but the Manager, that's all that mattered. Today, we gather today, which you are let's work together to make sure that all nations, all people over the world can benefit from the coordinated transportation of digital and a green development. And it will build, but main. We shall do it and we must do it.
>> LI YUXIAO: Thank you for your Ryan Vite presentation. Let me welcome you. The floor is yours.
>> Distinguished guests and friends from around the world. I would like to start from the packages from UN 52 years ago entitled we only have one earth. This is the typical case for topic‑based learning practice in my class. It is for low carbon lifestyle and finely, we expanded to the level. So for the old school I think that topic base learning practice is like coming out of the classroom and what you have been walking base learning for the first this is one important pricing China's fundamental education. I've been working on topic base learning for 30 years. The practice is (?). Always work, work and finally population bay incorporate elements into our classroom, we try to promote environmental education for our foremen channel calls operations, past integration, compatible incentives and digital indeed, you should of special ‑‑ take a low powerjack. We have platform. This is our word zero carbon loose monitoring ‑‑ this allows us to assess the schools and become and spend during the exploration and used and frame cameras have photo lenses and AI rippage recognition to classify one ‑‑ image recognition to ‑‑ we have several carbon experiments. Bringing environmental science to life. Scenario 4 is to get physical education. They have traditional EE education. Like AI assisted. Of intelligent system for students to keep track of their education. Finally, on behalf of all students primary scheme, I would like to share the low‑carbon campus initiative for sustain am future with global friends. In short, we believe that there are low‑carbon campuses (audio cutting in and out).
>> LI YUXIAO: Thank you for such a wonderful speech and low carbon development. Thank you again. Next on, I would like to invite professor Edward former (?). Next is Singapore to deliver the speech. Welcome, to share your slides.
>> Thank you, professor, and the leagues at the university for this invitation. I am honored to speak to you today on the topic of modeling green energy transition I see on my interest. You can get a magazine report. Artificial intelligence improve policy making, reduce computation costs and to scale regional and global patterns. But my focus is not on my primate help us create better models for energy transition. So I created a green energy adoption. As a function of policies, are we still working on this paper, but basically the use is how to use AI. You have complex modeling transition. Being here is that this this so while one important factor to monitor is the policy support for clean energy transition. The readiness of nationally in restaurant in terms of the fewer risks such as volatility, geo political risks and the risk of climbing invests of nozzle we need clean energy especially for developing countries. Then you have the issue of the. Are they ready to be integrated especially for the newer energy like solar win? Then you have to find social acceptance. You have to look. There is carbon taxes and nationally, they make contributions. You have much is of simple as soon as developments in you in clear model are reactors. Then you also have to loop think energy. There is the demand and clean energy all the right. So what I'm going to say is those had me. How can we use this year, you can in seven with (sound cutting in and out)