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Helen Clark

Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, is currently the director of the United Nations Development Programme.

Born in New Zealand in 1950.

In 1971, he joined the New Zealand Labour Party and became a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in 1978 and served as the leader of the Labour Party from 1993 to November 2008.

He was elected New Zealand parliamentarians in 1981 and served as Minister of housing, Minister of resources protection, Minister of health, Labour minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

From November 1999 to November 2008, he served as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and served as Minister of Arts, culture and heritage, Minister of administrative services, Minister of safety intelligence and Minister of communications security.

Since April 2009, he has served as the director of the United Nations Development Programme.

We live on a planet where urbanization is accelerating.

Today, about half of the world's people - about 3 billion 300 million live in big cities.

In China alone, twenty million people pour into urban life every year.

With more and more rural population coming to cities, this trend of globalization will become more and more intense.

They are all looking for better jobs and living standards, or for the sake of what we usually call human development to cities, in order to increase incomes and enjoy better medical, educational services and infrastructure.

With the further expansion of the urbanization process, the environment is also the first to bear the brunt.

In the traditional sense, urban ecological destruction is characterized by low efficiency, unsustainable use of resources, concentrated pollution and excessive waste generation.

More and more people are flocking to a limited space and scramble for poor resources, which will make the environment worse.

Climate change will further exacerbate this situation.

The deterioration of the environment has also cast a shadow on the survival and development of future generations.

However, as long as we work together to create a city development model that can coordinate the three aspects of economic development, social progress and environmental protection, all these challenges can be successfully solved and solved.

These are only the beginning of dealing with environmental degradation and improving the allocation and use of natural resources.

We also need to invest energy and material resources to solve problems such as air purification, water sources, health waste disposal and noise pollution.

At the same time, we need to ensure that the local government has foresight and ability to make use of the resources in hand, make the right decisions, and put climate change and corresponding adjustment in the central consideration of all development plans and strategies, including urban development.

Many of the major decisions made by various regions are closely related to climate change.

It is estimated that these decisions affect 50% 1 80% of greenhouse gas emissions.

Therefore, all regions can vigorously promote environmental actions that are significant, coordinated and innovative.

By hosting World Expo, Shanghai, China in 2010, China can send some very encouraging signals to other countries and regions in the world.

World Expo, Shanghai, focuses its attention on Shanghai, a city with a population of over 20 million, one of the Asian economic centers, a symbol of cultural prosperity and business development, and how to build it into a conspicuous green city pioneer, a proponent of a new mode of low-carbon urban life and development.

Shanghai has formed an environmental strategy covering six aspects: water, air, noise, solid waste, radiation and ecological protection.

In order to achieve a more healthy development mode, Shanghai has also established energy efficiency indicators.

With the support of the four division of the United Nations Development Programme, Shanghai launched the "environment-friendly city" initiative.

This is a broad framework. Under its framework, we monitor and track all kinds of environmental performance, incorporate environmental awareness into the urban decision-making process, arouse public concern, establish an exchange platform between cities, and attract private sector participation.

Shanghai World Expo has provided great opportunities to demonstrate the practice of low carbon city development, and it has also made the world understand that the two economic growth, prosperity, well-off society and sustainable urban development can be integrated.

The potential benefits are unlimited, so the number of urban residents who benefit from it is also unlimited.

The United Nations Development Programme and global development partners have launched a "Green New Deal" for sustainable development.

We can promote the good methods and ways adopted by some countries, and pform them into a new idea of creating a better city life while constructing this concept.

The United Nations development programme also plans to spread the initiatives and ideas put forward by Shanghai and World Expo to other places to play its role and effectiveness.

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Therefore, let us take the lead and push China's Shanghai World Expo in 2010 to a turning point, so that the future of the city will be more green and more sustainable.

Finally, I wish Shanghai World Expo a complete success.