Events
Mind the Gap! Trends in Strengthening Environmental Laws in China
January 15, 2009 // 8:00am — 10:00am
Steve Wolfsen, EPA; Tad Ferris, Holland and Knight; Dan Guttman, Peking University School of Law Public Interest Law Program
A Changing Climate in China: Looking Beyond Kyoto
November 13, 2008 // 8:00am — 10:00am
PAN Jiahua, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; CHENG Hongbo, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; WANG Mou, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Climate Change, Water, and the Himalayas (in San Francisco)
November 05, 2008 // 5:00pm — 6:30pm
Isabel Hilton, chinadialogue; Julia Klein, Colorado State University
Giving the Courts Green Teeth
October 22, 2008 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Tseming Yang Vermont Law School; Jingjing Liu Vermont Law School; Zhiping Li Environmental Resource and Energy Law Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University Law School
Fishing Murky Waters: China's Aquaculture Challenges Upstream and Downstream
October 01, 2008 // 9:00am — 11:00am
David Barboza, The New York Times; Teresa Ish, Environmental Defense Fund; WANG Hanling, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Yours, Mine, Ours—China's Carbon Emissions in an Interdependent World
July 17, 2008 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Jim Watson, Sussex Energy Group; Trevor Houser, Rhodium Group, LLC
Greening Business in China
July 11, 2008 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Terry Yosie, World Environment Center; Weijia Ye, New Ventures/World Resources Institute
Coal City
May 22, 2008 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Speakers present the coal component of the USAID-supported China Environmental Health Project, which aims to obtain accurate data on coal-fired pollution emissions in Huainan, China.
Local-to-Local Energy Linkages: California and Alberta in China
May 20, 2008 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
In light of the minimal cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments with China’s central government on energy, some U.S. states and Canadian provinces have begun to pursue effective forms of engagement with local-level Chinese counterparts on energy.
Cement and Climate Change in China
May 16, 2008 // 9:30am — 11:30am
Cement production is an energy-intensive process. It is estimated that China's cement—much of which is produced in energy inefficient, highly polluting kilns—consumes roughly six percent of the nation's energy.