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Since 1997, the Environmental Change and Security Program's China Environment Forum has been active in creating programming and publications to encourage dialog among U.S. and Chinese scholars, policymakers, businesses, and nongovernmental organizations on environmental and energy challenges in China.

Current Initiative:

  • Environmental Health—With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, CEF is working with Western Kentucky University (WKU) on a new China Environmental Health Project (CEHP). This section includes research briefs on the human health impacts of polluted air, water, land and the policies and activism driving these and food safety.

    Ongoing Initiatives:

  • Energy
  • Water
  • Environmental NGOs, Public Participation, and Governance

    Job Seekers: Browse job listings in the field of China and the environment advertised through our network.
    Students: Interested in China's environmental issues? Apply for a SPRING 09 internship.


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  • News
    Skillful Means: The Challenges of China’s Encounter with Factory Farming
    AUGUST 2008 - Referencing CEF's work on the subject, Brighter Green releases its findings on CAFOs in China

    CEF Posts New Environmental Health Research Briefs
    AUGUST 2008 - 2 new research briefs cover GMOs and the trials of an environmental health litigation NGO in China. The litigation brief is accompanied by a supplementary list of environmental health cases.

    CEF Acts as Supporting Organization to Hong Kong Conference
    JULY 2008 - Building Green Partnership for Sustainable Development




    Event Summaries
    Yours, Mine, Ours—China’s Carbon Emissions in an Interdependent World
    Thursday, July 17 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
    Jim Watson, Sussex Energy Group; Trevor Houser, Rhodium Group, LLC
    Event Summary

    Greening Business in China
    Friday, July 11 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
    Terry Yosie, World Environment Center; Weijia Ye, New Ventures/World Resources Institute
    Event Summary




    Publications

    China Environment Series 9 (2007)
    Authors in this issue of the China Environment Series examine many of China's environmental health challenges, with emphasis throughout on potential steps to address these problems through regulation, better research, greater NGO involvement, and international assistance. This issue also includes a special report from the USAID-supported China Environmental Health Project.






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    Linden Ellis, Program Assistant

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