If you are in Beijing this week...
We don’t usually announce every event but this one’s gonna be interesting…We (the Beijing Energy Network, of which GLF is a founder) are hosting Lynn Price and Zhou Nan of Lawrence Berekeley Lab’s China Energy Program at the Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable (BEER) this Thursday, March 19 at Blue Frog Bar in Sanlitun Village (networking session at 8pm, Talk at 9pm). They will talk about US-China cooperation in energy efficiency. One of the more notable programs is the Top-1000 Energy-Consuming Enterprises program, which we previously blogged about. For more details of the event and to sign on to BEER’s mailing list, click here.
Water Quality and Urban Wastewater Management in China
At Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable (BEER) last month on Jan 21, Yusha Hu built upon Christine Boyle’s presentation on Northern China’s water crisis and agricultural water use with a discussion on urban water management issues.
Yusha is a 2008-2009 Fulbright Fellow studying water resource management and policy at Tsinghua University, with the Division of Environmental Policy and Management of the Environmental Science Department. Her research interests lie in the use of water policy and water resource management as a tool to better understand the process between federal environmental policy creation and local policy implementation in China. Yusha holds a BA in Biology and Environmental studies from Swarthmore College.
Here are her slides and synopsis of her presentation: Read the full story
Understanding Northern China's Water Crisis
Christine E. Boyle talked about the Northern China’s water crisis at a Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable (BEER) last week on Jan 21.
Christine (pictured right) is a doctoral candidate in University of North Carolina’s program in environmental planning and policy and recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the Chinese Academy of Science’s Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy. Her doctoral dissertation examines the changing nature of irrigation governance in northern China. Her expertise is broad, covering sustainable rural development, the fiscal policy of urban and rural water distribution, and strategies to mitigate the impacts of municipal and industrial development on local water quality. Christine can be reached at cboyle [at] email.unc.edu
Here are her slides and synopsis of her presentation: Read the full story
Solar at a Crossroads
Solar is been making the news in China for a mixed bag of reasons.
[Pictured right: a solar installation on a German football stadium using panels by Yingli Green Energy, a Chinese solar company based in Baoding in Henan province]
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced their Action Plan for Solar to ramp up research, development and deployment of solar photovoltaics (PV) in China. People’s Daily vaguely describes the Plan’s has three scheduled milestones:
- distributed utilization of solar energy by 2015,
- substitution utilization by 2025 and extensive utilization by 2035, and
- aiming to make solar energy one of China’s important energy sources around 2050.
There are no further explanation of what these milestones mean in the article or in Read the full story
Have a BEER (or two) with BEN!
Some of our astute readers may have noticed in recent months some vague references to an organization called the Beijing Energy Network or the Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable, e.g. here and here. Indeed it does exist, as The China Daily exposed yesterday.
[Right: Attendees of a recent Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable (BEER) drinking up on green knowledge.]
To set record straight, the Beijing Energy Network (BEN or 北京能源网络) is a grassroots organization with a mission of promoting networking and collaboration amongst individuals and organizations from all walks to better understand, and to eventually start to take action in tackling, China’s energy and environmental challenge. As the China Daily article suggests, the early incarnations of BEN was founded in Read the full story
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