From May 15-17, 2019, the Western Returned Scholars Association hosted a side conference to the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations titled “Sustainable Development: Green Collaboration and Innovation”.

The keynote speakers of this conference included The Bridge Tank’s president Joël Ruet, Mohan Munasinghe, former Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, Nara Luvsan, Senior Programme Officer at the United Nations Environment Programme, and Li Zhijian, former Chairman of the Academic Committee of the School of Information Science and Technology of the Tsinghua University.

Joël Ruet also intervened in a panel discussion where he addressed the considerable change that the opportunity of direct high-speed trains between China and Europe would represent for passengers and human exchanges.