Events
Spotlight on New Environmental and Energy Initiatives in China
Hoffman Institute's water work in Hunan; WRI's New Center for Transport and the Environment in Shanghai; and EPA's eebuildings Initiative
Article on Tibetan Plateau by former CEF speaker appears on Economic Times in India
An international treaty is needed to protect the world's Third Pole
Preview: Choke Point: China Part II
The Woodrow Wilson Center's China Environment Forum and Circle of Blue have been working on the next part of the Choke Point: China series with support from Skoll Global Threats Fund. Circle of Blue’s director and senior editor just returned from the second fieldwork trip to China to examine the water-energy challenges facing second-tier cities, shale gas development, water pollution, and the expansion of agriculture in the northeast. The upcoming Choke Point: China part II reports will begin being posted later this month, but we already have some short blog posts as a preview. The first focuses on aquaculture in China.
CES 10 Commentaries, pp. 151-185
Citizens Finding a Voice: Bottom-Up Politics in China's Nuclear Power Debate
Xiang Fang
Spotlight on NGO Activism: A Wake-Up Call to Polluting Companies
By Christine Boyle & Jing Chen
Provincial Impacts of Multilateral Cooperation: The Greater Tumen Initiative and Environmental Protection in Jilin
By See-Won Byun
Feature Box: SSRC's China Environment and Health Initiative
By Jennifer Holdaway
Double Benefits: Saving Energy and Reducing Emissions in Hainan
By Lei Bi & Qian Wang
How Far Will the Rising Tide of CSR Go in China?
By Sean Gilbert
Spotlight on NGO Activism: Securing Land Rights for China’s Poor Farmers: The Rural Development Institute
By Zhu Keliang, Ping Li, & Radha Friedman
CEF Director Interviewed on Public Radio International
OCTOBER 2007 - Dr. Jennifer Turner interviewed on To the Point regarding the Olympics games and pollution
China Environment Series Issue 7 now available!
JULY 2005--The newest CEF publication includes articles and commentaries on the West-East Pipeline, China's water problems, sustainable agriculture in Guangdong, and reforestation efforts in southwest China, as well as two special reports on water conflict resolution and river basin governance in China. Download here.
Monitoring China's Waste Incineration and Air Pollution
The Wilson Center's China Environment Forum is proud to announce that we have recently published two new research briefs that examine air pollution monitoring and China's waste challenges, by CEF Summer Research Assistants Abi Barnes and Tara Sun Vanacore, respectively. Both briefs feature original, in-depth research and analysis, and they are available in CEF's publications section.
Report in Environmental Research Letters Explores Beijing's Blue Sky Days
SEPTEMBER 2008 - Author Steven Q. Andrews Analyzes the Discrepancy Between Reported Blue Sky Days and Monitoring Station Data