Events
Engaging China in New Energy Cooperation
October 02, 2009 // 9:00am — 11:00am
David Mohler, Senior VP and CTO for Duke Energy, Peggy Liu, Chairperson, Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE), Steve Papermaster, JUCCCE Co-Founder, U.S. Steering Committee Chair
Asia's Future (in San Francisco)
September 18, 2009 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Jennifer Turner, China Environment Forum; Howard Shapiro, Mars, Inc.; Robert Collier, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
Environmental Activism in Taiwan
September 08, 2009 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
The world of Taiwanese environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) is still relatively new and is constantly evolving. Speakers from the Taiwanese Environmental Information Association (TEIA) share their experiences.
China's Watersheds Under Stress
June 18, 2009 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Jon Barnett, Melbourne University; Kristen McDonald, China Rivers Project; Zhang Jingjing, CLAPV
Animal Investigators: Solving Wildlife Crimes and Saving Endangered Species in Brazil and China
May 20, 2009 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Illegal wildlife trafficking is the third largest criminal industry worldwide, involving $20 billion in global trade each year. Experts discuss the nature of the industry and the challenges governments and NGOs face in fighting it.
Seeing Through the Smog: Promoting Sino-U.S. Cooperation on Air Quality, Environmental Health, and Climate Change
May 12, 2009 // 9:00am — 11:00am
China's three decades as the world's fastest growing economy have brought it an unfortunate primacy in two other categories: world's highest annual incidence of premature deaths triggered by air pollution and greatest emitter of carbon dioxide.
Greening the Pearl River Delta
April 29, 2009 // 3:30pm — 4:45pm
Edward Yau, Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong SAR
Asia's Next Challenge: Securing the Region's Water Future
April 22, 2009 // 9:00am — 11:00am
The new report by the Asia Society's Leadership Group on Water Security in Asia considers the security dimensions associated with decreased access to a safe, stable supply of water in Asia and provides a forward-looking agenda aimed at averting a water crisis in the region.
Film Festival Screening of Up the Yangtze
March 18, 2009 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Judith Shapiro, Director, Global Environmental Politics, American University
China's Green Revolution: Prioritizing Technologies to Achieve Energy and Environmental Sustainability
March 02, 2009 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
Jonathan Woetzel, McKinsey & Company's Shanghai office;Martin Joerss, McKinsey & Company's Beijing office; Rob Bradley, World Resources Institute