创建日期 2023-08-28 查看次数 1501

 

Conference Briefing for

Professional Association for China’s Environment (PACE)

Annual Conference 2023

China's Environment & Development under Carbon Neutrality & De-globalization

 

About the Conference

 

China is going through fundamental environmental improvement, with traditional pollution of air, water and soil largely past the inflection point of the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Climate change has become the dominant environmental issue. Carbon neutrality has gained crucial momentum in the past three years and all major economies have set national targets for it. China's plan is to achieve carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The COVID-19 pandemic has come to its end after three years of rampage, but the ongoing US-China trade war and de-globalization are creating new challenges for the deploy of environmental and carbon-neutral technologies and supply chains.

In response to the new phase of China’s environmental and climate issues, the PACE 2023 Annual Conference, held in The Chinese University of Hong Kong from August 18^th to 19^th 2023, explored (but not limit to) the era of environmental post-turning point and carbon neutral policies and implementation, development challenges and opportunities, domestic and global governance and other related topics, to serve country’s need of environmental improvement and sustainable development in the new age.

 

Academic Committee (in alphabetical order)

Maoliang BU, Dan Guttman, Tao HU, Zonghuang HUANG, Zhuoqi LIU, Manhong SHEN, Hua WANG, Tao WANG, Linyu XU, Yuan XU, Xiaoling ZHANG, Da ZHANG, Da ZHU

Organizing Committee

Chair: XU Yuan, XU Linyu

Administrative and Logistics Support: Davis DU, ZHANG Xing, DU Yufan

Venue:

Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA) 2^nd Floor, Lecture Theatre 4 & 5, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Programme

 

August 18^th, 2023: Technical Tour

Technical Tour: Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works (STSTW) (Person-in-charge: Prof. XU Yuan, PACE President)

Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm

 

August 19^th, 2023

8:30—9:00   On-site registration (Venue: outside of YIA LT4 & 5) (Person-in-charge: DU Yufan, Zhang Xing)

9:00—9:15 Opening (Venue: YIA LT4)

Moderator: Prof. XU Yuan, Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong & President, Professional Association for China’s Environment

Opening speech by:

Dr. HU Tao, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Professional Association for China’s Environment

Prof. LAM Hon-Ming, Director, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof. XU Linyu, Professor, Beijing Normal University

9:15—9:20 Group Photo (Person-in-charge: DU Yufan)

9:20—10:30       Planetary session 1 (Venue: YIA LT4)

Moderator: Prof. XU Linyu, Professor, Beijing Normal University & Vice President, Professional Association for China’s Environment

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Dan Guttman (Online), PACE Board Member

Prof. LI Wei, Professor, Beijing Normal University

10:30—11:00     Coffee break & networking (Person-in-charge: DU Yufan)

11:00—12:30     Concurrent sessions 1A & 1B

Session 1A: Sustainability in China (Venue: YIA LT4; Chair: Prof. LIANG Sai)

Session 1B: Water and Ecosystem Management (Venue: YIA LT5; Chair: Prof. CHEN Shaoqing)

12:30—14:00      Lunch & networking (Person-in-charge: DU Yufan)

14:15—15:25     Planetary session 2 (Venue: YIA LT4)

Moderator: Prof. ZHANG Xiaoling, Professor, City University of Hong Kong; PACE Board Member

Dr. HU Tao, PACE Chairman

Prof. LIANG Sai, Professor, Guangdong University of Technology

15:25—16:55      Concurrent sessions 2A & 2B

Session 2A: Energy Transition (Venue: YIA LT4; Chair: Prof. ZHANG Lin)

Session 2B: Environmental Policy and Impacts (Venue: YIA LT5; Chair: Prof. LI Wei)

16:55—17:25      Coffee break (Person-in-charge: DU Yufan)

17:30—18:00      Closing & PACE AGM (Venue: YIA LT4; Chair: Prof. XU Yuan, PACE President)

Panel:

Prof. HU Tao, PACE Chairman

Prof. XU Yuan, PACE President

Prof. XU Linyu, PACE Vice President

Prof. ZHANG Xiaoling, PACE Board Member

18:30—20:00      Conference Dinner (Venue: Chung Chi Staff Club)

 

August 20^th, 2023: Departure