SHENZHEN, CHINA – Aug 17, 2026 – Held at ITU Headquarters in Geneva, the Global Climate Finance & Investment High-Level Roundtable served as a key official side event marking the 20th anniversary of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20). The roundtable was co-organised jointly by the United Nations Global Leadership & ESG Programme (UNGLEP), the 2031 Global Strategic Partnership Centre (GSP) — an entity directly overseen by the UAE Presidential Office — and the Social Impact Investment Foundation (SIIF). During the award ceremony, Su Zhi, Founder of Optimise Integration Group (OIG), received the Award for Distinguished Leadership & Distinctive Contributions to the Field of Innovative Climate Finance, bearing official certificate serial number UNGLEP ICFA 20260012.
This year’s cohort of laureates comprises prominent global stakeholders spanning heads of state, distinguished business leaders and senior officials from multilateral bodies. Fellow honourees include Sheikh Hamad of the United Arab Emirates, H.E. Mohamed Ali Jana, Chief Trade and Investment Advisor to the President of the Maldives, alongside CEOs of energy, climate finance and digital asset conglomerates, plus other senior representatives from leading international institutions. Centred on closing the persistent global climate investment gap and advancing an equitable digital just transition for developing economies across the Global South, the high-level multilateral dialogue convened UN agency representatives, sovereign green investment bodies, top cross-border industrial conglomerates and pioneering global digital tech enterprises. Attendees collectively explored actionable industrial climate solutions to accelerate delivery of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The global low-carbon shift is hampered by profound structural imbalance: emerging and developing economies bear the brunt of climate hazards yet face chronic shortages of targeted, affordable green capital. Roundtable participants reached a unified cross-stakeholder consensus that high-level policy pledges alone cannot deliver fair, inclusive decarbonisation worldwide. Instead, tech-enabled, accessible supply chain climate finance frameworks represent the pivotal solution to bridge digital divides and unlock an equitable global energy and industrial transition. The official award citation recognised Su Zhi’s two decades of pioneering industry work, through which he merged digital infrastructure with climate finance to build resilient low-carbon growth trajectories for climate-vulnerable economies. Three landmark achievements were highlighted: scaling end-to-end digital transformation for cross-border agricultural trade in emerging markets, developing standardised data-governed climate investment decision frameworks, and rolling out inclusive agricultural financing mechanisms that dismantle systemic barriers preventing developing-country market players from accessing global green supply chains. OIG’s integrated industrial ecosystem is widely regarded as a replicable, scalable benchmark model that advances the UN’s core vision of inclusive, equitable digital climate action.
With nearly 20 years of deep operational experience in cross-border cold-chain and imported food supply chains, OIG has independently built an AI and big data-powered integrated industrial ecosystem. The platform unifies big data governance, climate-aligned targeted capital allocation, low-carbon smart warehousing, global temperature-controlled logistics and full-lifecycle carbon footprint & food safety traceability under one roof. The Group’s proprietary digital and AI systems standardise diverse agricultural commodities, streamline cumbersome cross-border trade compliance workflows, and enable complete end-to-end carbon footprint tracking from farm origins to end consumer markets. By embedding digital risk management tools and sustainability-linked financing instruments into every stage of international cold-chain operations, OIG directly addresses two critical bottlenecks holding back developing nations’ digital just transition: opaque supply chain carbon accounting standards and limited access to low-cost, long-term green investment capital. This trailblazing digital climate finance system drastically cuts post-harvest waste for fresh agricultural goods, slashes carbon emissions generated by cross-border logistics, and opens up inclusive green investment avenues for smallholder farmers, producers and traders across emerging regions — fully aligning with WSIS+20’s core priority of narrowing global digital inequality through industry-led technological innovation.
“I am immensely honoured to accept this prestigious accolade alongside distinguished peers, including government leaders, renowned entrepreneurs, senior trade envoys and heads of international organisations,” Su Zhi said during the Geneva award ceremony, speaking on behalf of all OIG staff and the Group’s global industry partners. “Climate justice and equitable digital transformation cannot be realised through lofty global commitments in isolation. Meaningful, tangible progress hinges on practical, inclusive digital and financial infrastructure that empowers market participants from all developing economies to participate in sustainable cross-border trade. Global agricultural trade underpins the livelihoods of billions worldwide, standing at the critical intersection of climate action, digital equity and inclusive socioeconomic development. Every enhancement to transparency and operational efficiency on our cross-border cold-chain platform yields compounding positive environmental and social outcomes: it curbs industrial carbon footprints while shrinking the digital-finance gap for climate-vulnerable economies. Shared with fellow global changemakers, this award is not merely formal recognition of our cumulative industrial milestones to date; it also carries a solemn long-term mandate to keep building and refining inclusive climate digital infrastructure tailored to the needs of the Global South.”
A flagship activity under the WSIS+20 framework, the Global Climate Finance & Investment High-Level Roundtable advances five core UN strategic priorities: ESG-aligned sustainable industrial development, nurturing global green climate leadership, empowering youth to advance the SDGs, governing an inclusive digital economy, and facilitating cross-border multilateral finance and project collaboration. The forum runs a network of global coordination hubs in Bangkok, Dubai, Boston, Sydney, São Paulo and Cairo, widely disseminating replicable digital climate finance solutions to mitigate uneven decarbonisation progress between developed and developing nations. This globally recognised authoritative award fully validates OIG’s core corporate mission: to connect fragmented global producers with mainstream consumer markets via transparent, low-carbon, digitally inclusive cross-border trade infrastructure. The Group has unveiled multi-year investment blueprints to ramp up funding for green cold-chain physical assets, full-lifecycle digital carbon traceability systems and inclusive sustainability-linked financing tools, with a clear strategic goal to speed up the digital just transition across dozens of developing regions in the coming years.
About OIG
Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, OIG (Optimise Integration Group) is a world-leading data and technology enterprise specialising in integrated cross-border cold-chain and imported food supply chain services. The Group integrates cross-border data governance, climate-aligned capital deployment, low-carbon global logistics and full-lifecycle product traceability to deliver efficient, transparent and equitable cross-border trade channels for temperature-sensitive agricultural goods. It links scattered suppliers across the globe to major consumer markets, while continuously expanding access to inclusive climate finance resources for emerging economies.
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