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AmCham China and the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy are pleased to invite you to this China and the Environment Series event that will feature an expert discussion on China's energy and environment challenges in the 21st century and US-China collaboration in the energy sector.
The first presentation will feature Kevin J. Tu, director and senior associate, China Energy & Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Tu's presentation will discuss China's energy and environmental challenges, with a special focus on the implications for the Chinese coal value chain.
China is the world's second largest economy, number-one energy consumer and carbon emitter. How the country can make an appropriate tradeoff among economic development, energy security and environmental integrity is a pressing policy challenge for Chinese decision makers in the years to come. While Beijing had high expectations on nuclear and renewable development in the past, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis in 2011 and China's ongoing trade discussions on renewables with its major trading partners have made the country more realistic about nuclear and renewable promotion. Meanwhile, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, energy conservation and emissions reductions targets have been continuously prioritized by the Chinese government. With 70 percent of China's primary energy relying on coal, the discussion will focus on how the coal-intensive Chinese economy could be transformed toward an increasingly lower carbon emissions trajectory and how China's rising international coal trade could be factored into the country's long-term energy planning.
The first presentation will feature Kevin J. Tu, director and senior associate, China Energy & Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Tu's presentation will discuss China's energy and environmental challenges, with a special focus on the implications for the Chinese coal value chain.
China is the world's second largest economy, number-one energy consumer and carbon emitter. How the country can make an appropriate tradeoff among economic development, energy security and environmental integrity is a pressing policy challenge for Chinese decision makers in the years to come. While Beijing had high expectations on nuclear and renewable development in the past, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis in 2011 and China's ongoing trade discussions on renewables with its major trading partners have made the country more realistic about nuclear and renewable promotion. Meanwhile, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, energy conservation and emissions reductions targets have been continuously prioritized by the Chinese government. With 70 percent of China's primary energy relying on coal, the discussion will focus on how the coal-intensive Chinese economy could be transformed toward an increasingly lower carbon emissions trajectory and how China's rising international coal trade could be factored into the country's long-term energy planning.
In the second part of the session, Dr. Casey Delhotal, director for East Asia in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the US Department of Energy will deliver a presentation on US-China collaboration on energy.
Dr. Wang Tao, resident scholar, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy will be the moderator of this discussion.
About the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
The Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy is a joint US–China research center based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The Center was established in April 2010 through a cooperative agreement between the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Tsinghua University School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Carnegie–Tsinghua Center brings together senior scholars and experts from the United States and China for collaborative research on common global challenges that face the international community, including issues related to: China's foreign relations, international economics and trade, energy and climate change, non-proliferation and arms control, and international security challenges.
Dr. Wang Tao, resident scholar, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy will be the moderator of this discussion.
About the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
The Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy is a joint US–China research center based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The Center was established in April 2010 through a cooperative agreement between the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Tsinghua University School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Carnegie–Tsinghua Center brings together senior scholars and experts from the United States and China for collaborative research on common global challenges that face the international community, including issues related to: China's foreign relations, international economics and trade, energy and climate change, non-proliferation and arms control, and international security challenges.
