在9月17日举行的联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）峰会的“产业可持续创新2023”（Innovation for Industrial Sustainability）官方边会上，商界领袖和学者一致呼吁加强全球和区域合作，特别是在管理共享资源方面，以共同应对全球性挑战。哥伦比亚大学可持续发展中心主任、经济学家杰弗里-萨克斯强调了长期和全面规划的重要性，并特别提到了中国在五年规划以及"一带一路"倡议等方面的领先地位。他建议亚洲国家应强化合作，整合电网与光纤资源，避免出现新的冷战和地区分歧

此次边会活动由清华大学、联合国经济和社会事务部及联合国水机制共同主办。活动重点介绍了中国企业在实现净零排放目标上的努力和进展，其中包括安踏集团和中国飞鹤在供应链可持续发展和节能减碳方面的举措与实践。同时，联合国负责经济和社会事务的副秘书长李军华表示，虽然可持续发展目标峰会每四年召开一次，但目前只有12%的可持续发展目标进展顺利，50%的目标进展缓慢或出现倒退。今年的峰会将在纽约举行，对于实现2030年议程与目标具有特殊意义。

以下为Chinadaily的报道：

At UN event, cooperation sought for sustainable development

To advance sustainable development, the world needs regional cooperation, particularly in managing shared resources, and global challenges should be addressed through cooperation rather than conflict, business leaders and scholars said at a United Nations side event.

Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and the director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, told the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit side event on Innovation for Industrial Sustainability that comprehensive and long-term planning is critical in addressing global challenges, particularly in areas like decarbonization, sustainable resource management, and infrastructure development.

China has the most effective planning instruments in the world, particularly in its five-year planning cycles, said Sachs, and he suggested that China should share its planning expertise with the world.

He highlighted the importance of international initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative and the Global Energy Interconnection proposal in advancing sustainable development.

"China has two really important initiatives … that should be strongly joined together.

One of course is the Belt and Road initiative, which is an excellent initiative, and I hope China doesn't in any way shy away from it even if some of the countries are facing short-term debt service problems in the Belt and Road family.

"These are short-term problems. China knows how to look to the long term, make the debt long term, don't write it off," he added.

The second is global energy interconnection, Sachs said. "China is propounding through the Chinese state grid and specifically through Geico, which is the Global Energy Interconnection development cooperation organization made by the China state grid.

"If you listen to some countries like one I happen to live in, the region's divided into blocs: pro-China, anti-China. This is ridiculous. The region hangs together because it should share energy systems of power grid and connectivity in fiber," Sachs said.

"We don't need a new Cold War or divisions or NATO in Asia or any of these ridiculous ideas," he said. "We need cooperation in Asia, and this would make a huge difference. And by the way … if China and Japan and Korea sit down and cooperate with each other, they'll realize they're the superpower of the world in green innovation."

The SDG Summit side event was co-organized by Tsinghua University, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and UN Water, supported by the Sustainable Business Leaders platform.

As an official side event of the SDG Summit, it spotlighted Chinese companies' concerted push toward net-zero goals, offering invaluable insights to global counterparts.

ANTA Group, for example, whose products draw more than 200 million global consumers, is taking the lead in accelerating and implementing sustainability practices in its supply chain and their impact on the broader consumer goods sector, according to Wu Yonghua, executive director of the board and co-CEO of ANTA Sports.

Energy-saving and carbon reduction have become the latest buzzwords in manufacturing, said Judy Fong-Yee Tu, executive director and vice-president of China Feihe.

Still, implementation remains challenging. Businesses must come together to accelerate technology breakthroughs and explore practical solutions for sustainable development, Tu said.

"We are at a crucial juncture in our journey towards achieving the 2030 Agenda. However, our progress towards most of the SDG goals has been faltering. Only 12 percent of the SDGs targets are on track; progress on 50 percent is insufficient or regressed," Li Junhua, the UN under-secretary-general for economic and social affairs, said Sunday.

Held every four years, the SDG summit represents the UN's highest level of discussions on sustainable development. This year's summit, on Monday and Tuesday in New York, is particularly significant as it marks the halfway point to the deadline set for achieving the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.