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Happy New Year Everyone!

猴年快乐, 新春大吉! 

We are launching the Year of the Monkey with some urban-focused meetings and publications that we hope you enjoy.

•  Bottom-up Innovation and Partnerships to Address Climate & Pollution in Chinese Cities. On February 18^th we welcome speakers from RAND University, U.S. Green Building Council, and the Department of Energy to talk about tools being developed with Chinese partners to measure urban pollution, environmental quality, and energy efficiency.
• Film Screening. On March 18^th we screen Land of Many Places for the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital—a film about Ordos, China's largest "ghost city."
• Port Cities Pollution Report. With the passage of the new Air Pollution Control Law the regulation of emissions from ports will become a higher priority in China. To contribute to this conversation on port pollution we have just released the joint ICCT-CEF report: Costs and Benefits of Shore Power at the Port of Shenzhen.  This report is part of CEF's Choke Point: Port Cities initiative.
• New InsightOut issue. “Breaking Out of the Dome” explores the potential of energy efficiency to clear urban skies in China.

CEF in the News

• CEF director Jennifer Turner and research assistant Zhou Yang were quoted on VICE News on ways Chinese citizens cope with smog
• NPR's Robert Siegel talked with CEF director Jennifer Turner about the toxic waste disaster in Shenzhen
• CNBC and CCTV-America discussed Beijing’s second smog red alert with CEF Director Jennifer Turner

Recent CEF and Global Choke Point Posts on the New Security Beat Blog

• “Drought Pushes South Africa to Water, Energy, Food Reckoning” by Keith Schneider
• “Can the ‘World’s Largest Urban Area’ Clean Up Its Act? Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta” by Keith Schneider
• “Will China’s New Air Law Solve its Pollution Crisis?” by Cai Jingjing and Joyce Tang
• “What’s the Impact of China’s Cap-and-Trade Program?” by Zhou Yang
• “In Shenzhen, Tracking the Early Steps of China’s Carbon Pivot” by Keith Schneider
• “Soy What? How China’s Growing Appetite is Transforming the Port of Oakland” by Susan Chan Shifflett
• “Despite Massive Conservation, Recycling, Imports, Shenzhen Faces Water Shortages” by Coco Liu

Final Monkey Note

CEF will be putting on some meetings in Beijing first week of March, so stay tuned for more info on that!

祝平安喜乐！

The CEF Team

Jennifer Turner, Zhou Yang, and Joyce Tang