Events
Environmental Security and Regional Politics in the Mekong Basin
February 26, 2007 // 8:00am — 10:00am
Evelyn Goh, University of Oxford, St. Anne's College; Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute
Air Pollution and Environmental Health Threats in Southern China
February 13, 2007 // 8:00am — 10:00am
Christine Loh, founder of the Hong Kong think tank Civic Exchange, says that Hong Kong could lose its status as the economic hub of Asia if the city does not clean up its skies.
China Environment Forum Film Screening: "China from the Inside: Shifting Nature"
January 05, 2007 // 11:00am — 1:00pm
Screening with filmmaker Jonathan Lewis.
Urban Transport Development in China - Trends and Challenges
November 30, 2006 // 8:00am — 10:00am
Lee Schipper and Wei-Shiuen Ng from EMBARQ at the World Resources Institute's Center for Sustainable Transport, and transportation specialist Graham Smith examine China's current motorization trends and their consequences.
Environmental Health Crises in Southwest China
November 08, 2006 // 8:00am — 10:00am
Millions of rural and urban citizens in China suffer from health problems and limits to economic development due to contamination or shortages of water and air pollution from coal. In southwest China, water challenges are particularly acute due to that region's karst geology, where much of the water flows underground through caves rather than on the surface
China Shakes the World
October 06, 2006 // 9:00am — 10:30am
James Kynge, Former Bureau Chief of the Financial Times in Beijing will discuss his new book China Shakes the World: A Titan's Breakneck Rise and Troubled Future—and the Challenge for America
International Technology Transfer Experiences in China's Electricity and Transport Sectors
October 02, 2006 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Kelly Sims Gallagher of Harvard University and Joanna Lewis of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change will discuss their research on international technology transfer within the energy and transport sector.
The Double Edge of Legal Advocacy in Environmental Public Participation in China: Raising the Stakes and Strengthening Stakeholders
September 25, 2006 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Drawing on the feature article they wrote for the China Environment Series 8, Allison Moore, American Bar Association and Adria Warren, Foley and Lardner, LLP, discussed the political and legal dynamics of the development of public participation in the environmental sphere in China
Film Screening: China's Sorrow - Earth's Hope
June 27, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
The film documents how the Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project rehabilitated various areas of the plateau by engaging the local farmers and government officials in planting trees, shrubs, and grasslands on the majority of land; creating terraces for agricultural activities; planting of orchards and vineyards; and constructing sediment control dams and irrigation structures.
Partnership for Clean Indoor Air in Guizhou Province: Promoting Environmental Health in Rural China
June 13, 2006 // 9:00am — 11:00am
The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air was launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 to address the increased environmental health risk faced by billons of people across the developing world who burn traditional biomass fuels and coal indoors for cooking and heating.