Climate Change & China's Policy

May 07, 2010,
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Speaker: Mr. Dong Song, Deputy Director of the Climate Change Office, Legal Department of the Foreign Ministry of China. Abstract: Climate change and its adverse effects are a common concern of the international community. As the largest greenhouse gases emitter since 2006, China's emission trends, policies and actions in addressing climate change attract a lot of attentions from the world. This presentation will brief on the following dimensions of the issue of climate change and China: climate change and its impacts on China; emission trends of China; China's efforts in addressing climate change; China's positions on climate change negotiations & cooperation; China's outlook of the forthcoming COP16 of the UNFCCC.

Speaker bio: Mr. Dong Song has been serving as the Deputy Division Director in charge of policy planning at the Legal Department of the Foreign Ministry of China since 2009. During the period of 2006-2008, he held the post of Deputy Director of the Climate Change Office at the Legal Department of the Ministry. Now he is a Master of Arts candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of the Tufts University.