2023年3月17日，联合国人权理事会第52届会议在瑞士日内瓦举行，北京市光明慈善基金会理事长李林线上参会并视频发言。光明慈善基金会于2019年获得联合国经济及社会理事会特别咨商地位，自2019年以来，通过线上或线下方式，参与联合国有关会议和活动共6次。

李林理事长视频发言（来源联合国官网-联合国网络电视录屏视频_中文）

     在联合国人权理事会第52届会议上，光明慈善基金会李林理事长在“促进和保护所有人权包括公民权利、政治权利、经济、社会及文化权利，以及发展权的一般辩论”上发言，并介绍了对中国发展权与环境权的保护。

      光明慈善基金会李林理事长说，光明慈善基金会作为具有联合国经济及社会理事会特别咨商地位的中国非政府组织，有“环境保护与治理”业务范围。2022年第四季度，光明慈善基金会与相关院校、机构、企业联合在中国西北尝试“公益碳汇林的开发与实践”，通过开发、种植碳汇林，帮助西部地区实施可再生能源、林业碳汇、甲烷利用等项目，实现温室气体排放的替代、吸附或者减少。

     中国四十年的快速发展，创造了世界经济发展史奇迹，同时也付出了巨大的环境代价。发展权与环境权的融合，与每个人的福祉紧密相连。发展经济才能国富民安，而物质基础是发展权保障的基础条件。但是，如果经济活动消耗资源的速度，超过资源本身及其替代品的再生速度，如果向环境排放废物的数量超过环境的自净能力，则无异于竭泽而渔。

     因此，只有经济社会发展与环境保护相协调，在可持续的环境中谋求发展，才能实现中华民族的永续发展。

     以下为英文发言：

As a special consultant of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, with the business scope of "environmental protection and governance", in the fourth quarter of 2022, our organization allied relevant colleges, institutions and enterprises to try to develop and practice the public carbon sequestration forest forestry carbon sinks in northwest China. Through the development and planting of carbon sequestration forest, it will help the western region to implement renewable energy, forestry carbon sinks, methane utilization projects etc., and achieve the replacement, adsorption or reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

China's rapid development in the past 40 years has created a miracle in the history of world economic development, but also paid a huge environmental price.

The integration of the right to development and the right to environment is closely linked to the well-being of everyone. Only by developing the economy can the country be prosperous and the people be safe. The material basis is the basic condition for the protection of the right to development. However, if the rate of consumption of resources by economic activities exceeds the rate of regeneration of the resources themselves and their substitutes, and if the amount of waste discharged into the environment exceeds the self-purification capacity of the environment, it will be no different from draining the pond to catch all the fish. Therefore, only by coordinating economic and social development with environmental protection and seeking development in a sustainable environment can the sustainable development of the Chinese nation be realized.