November 5, 2024

On August 15, NIO and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) signed a cooperation agreement as partners in the Clean Parks platform. UNDP cooperates with NIO in relation to environmental protection of nature reserves, capacity building of youth, and cooperation in ecological investment standards. ‘

Based on this cooperation, NIO will support selected nature reserves by providing smart electric vehicles and building clean energy infrastructure for national parks and nature reserves, to build a clean and low carbon energy circulation system, promote clean energy and sustainable development, and protect the authenticity and integrity of ecosystems.

As part of this initiative, NIO will also collaborate with UNDP to support youth entrepreneurship, encouraging young innovators to explore business solutions to improve biodiversity conservation and ecological protection.

In addition, UNDP will further use its expertise and influence in the field of sustainable business investment and allocate various resources to jointly establish relevant standards, guidelines, or catalogs for ecological investment and protection of biodiversity with relevant stakeholders.

Harmful ecological environment challenges social development and human survival. Based on this, at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on September 25, 2015, the 193 members of the UN formally adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs aim to solve development issues in three dimensions – social, economic and environmental – through an integrated methodology and transition to a sustainable development approach from 2015 to 2030.

The collaboration of NIO and UNDP this time will cover 7 areas, including SDG5: Gender Equality, SDG6: Clean Water and Sanitation, SDG7: Affordable and Clean Energy, SDG12: Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG13: Climate Action, SDG14: Life below Water , SDG15: Life on Earth.

William Li, founder, chairman, and CEO of NIO, Lihong Qin, co-founder and president of NIO, Beate Trankmann, UNDP Resident Representative in China, James George, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in China, and Ning Liu, Deputy Director General of The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) attended the ceremony.

William Li, founder, chairman, and CEO of NIO, mentioned that, in the process of developing our work, we also consider how to improve the contribution of Clean Parks to ecological conservation. Today, a highly respected official with the United Nations Development Program will co-build Clean Parks with NIO, to jointly build a clean and low-carbon energy circulation system in collaboration with nature reserve. At the same time, we will support social entrepreneurship to encourage young innovators to explore business solutions towards sustainability; and jointly develop standards, guidelines, and catalogs related to biodiversity conservation and green investment, promoting sustainable business development.

“UNDP has been working in China for over two decades on conservation and climate change with the central government including the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other ministries, as well as local governments for over in 20 provinces,” said Beate Trankmann, UNDP Resident Representative in China, in welcome remarks. “The partnership we are launching today looks to continue this progress by strengthening ecological conservation in China’s Protected Areas and newly established National Parks, focusing in particular on the synergies between biodiversity protection and climate change.”

Ning Liu, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), also emphasized, “We are very happy to see the United Nations Development Program as an international agency, and NIO as an energy company, actively working together to build ecology together, value nature reserves and work together to promote biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.”

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to end poverty, reduce inequality and exclusion, as well as protect the planet, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Together, these efforts aim to ensure that improvements in human well-being remain within ecological boundaries. We also help countries develop policies, leadership skills, partnership abilities and institutional capabilities, as well as build resilience, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

UNDP has been working in China for more than 40 years, collaborating to promote various phases of China’s development. UNDP continues to prioritize China’s initiatives to achieve the SDGs domestically and through China’s global cooperation. As one of the leading international agencies of the Global Environment Fund (GEF) in the field of environmental conservation and biodiversity in China, UNDP has implemented 24 GEF biodiversity projects in cooperation with the Chinese government since 2005. The projects include in many hot spots and important areas of biodiversity conservation, including wetlands, oceans, agriculture, protected areas, national parks, genetic resources access and benefit sharing, ecological compensation, disaster response, and others. In 2019, UNDP collaborated with the Chinese government to develop and implement GEF China’s Protected Area Reform (National Parks) planning project, including the China National Parks Institutional Innovation Project and four other sub-projects, with GEF funding $21 million. The project aims to reform China’s natural reserves and change mechanisms, establish effective national park systems, increase the protected area of ​​nature reserves, improve management effectiveness in the nature reserve, and will continue to contribute to the conservation of China’s biodiversity.

Clean Parks, a global ecological co-construction initiated by NIO in accordance with the brand’s guiding philosophy Blue Sky Coming, is the first open platform in the world initiated by a car company to seek to support construction and protection in national parks and nature reserves.

The project has established cooperation with Three-river-source National Park, National Park of Hainan Tropical Rainforest, and Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park; it also launched ecological conservation projects in the Xisha Islands, Qomolangma National Nature Preserve, Xiangshawan in Inner Mongolia, and Selim Lake in Xinjiang.

This July, as a co-constructor of ecology, Clean Parks supports the COP15 Youth Scientific Expedition Hainan Project sponsored by the Center for Environmental Education and Communications (CEEC) of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) and Polar Hub, which helps the ecological patrols in the Dongzhai Port National Nature Reserve.

This time, NIO and UNDP are working together. We expect both sides to use their resource advantages and work together for a sustainable and better future. Together we can embrace the Arrival of the Blue Sky!

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