Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Moving Beyond Coal: Shifting China onto a Path Toward 100% Renewable Electricity
The Wilson Center presents a talk examining China's future in renewable energy
When:
February 19, 2014 9:00am to 11:00am
Where
2013 was a bad air year for China, bookended with “airpocalypses” that left Chinese cities blanketed in thick smog for weeks. Much of the fine particulates that created this smog came from coal plant emissions, as the Chinese government approved the construction of more than 100 million tons of new coal production capacity last year, a sixfold increase over 2012. So although China is the world’s leading investor in clean energy technologies, coal remains king. But more than ever, pollution problems are threatening coal’s reign.
On February 19th, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum (CEF) together with WWF will host a panel delves into the ambitious question of how China can entirely phase out coal from the country’s electricity mix. The discussion will be anchored by a new WWF and Energy Transition Research Institute (Entri) report China's Future Generation: Assessing the Maximum Potential for Renewable Power Sources in China to 2050 that assesses the scenarios at which China can technically transition to majority renewable electricity over the next 36 years. The analysis shows that with existing commercially available technology and aggressive policies shifting the country away from energy-intensive industries, around 80 percent of China's electricity generation can be met by renewable sources by 2050. The report will be released the day of this meeting and available online. The panel of industry, research, and NGO representatives will reflect on the near-term opportunities for businesses and the gaps that NGOs and other stakeholders could fill to accelerate this transition.
There will be a live broadcast of this event. Please click here.
SPEAKERS:
Lunyan Lu // Climate & Energy Program Director, WWF China
William Chandler // Research Director, Energy Transition Research Institute
Wenqian Tang // Executive Vice Secretary-General, Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association
Ethan Zindler // Global Head of Policy Analysis, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Phone Number:
202-691-4000
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Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.