The 2023 Green Development Think Tank Annual Conference was held on March 24-25 in Guangzhou. With the theme of “Local Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutralization: Deepening and Breaking Through,” the conference brought together leading energy, environment and climate experts from around China to discuss China’s long-term decarbonization goals. Participants included Li Gao, Director of the Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Hong Jianwu, Director of the Climate and Exchange Division of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, Zhou Dadi, member of the National Climate Change Expert Committee, Zhang Xiliang, Director of the Institute for Energy, Environment and Economics at Tsinghua University, Zou Ji, CEO of the Energy Foundation and President of China, Ma Aimin, Deputy Director of the National Center for Climate Change Strategy Research and International Cooperation, and forty other experts.