The "greening" of Chengdu created 500, 000 jobs, nearly tripling the per capita income in the region, and included the cleaning up or closing of more than 1, 000 commercial sources of pollution.
It is a future where we must strengthen our collaboration on critical environmental issues: cleaning up our air, land and water, fighting for environmental justice to relieve the burdens of pollution in poor and minority communities, protecting the planet we all call home and safeguarding the creation that has been given to us to steward.