Invitation To
A presentation organized by the Canada-China Friendship Society on
China’s Energy Policy and Global Climate Change
by
Christian Constantin
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Library and Archives Canada, Room 156,395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
All are welcome
Professor Christian Constantin did his undergraduate and master’s studies at the Université du Québec a Montréal before completing his doctoral program at the University of British Columbia. He studied Chinese language at Beijing University. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Senior Visiting Scholar under the China-Canada Scholars Exchange Program, at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing, researching his dissertation on China’s energy policy making. He was among the first Fellows to be selected by the Canadian International Council for 2008-2009 to research Sino-Canadian energy cooperation. Professor Constantin has published many articles on China’s energy policy and foreign economic policy in academic publications. In 2007 he was awarded the Léon Dion Prize by the Société québécoise de science politique for the best article published in Politique et société during 2005-2006. In 2004 and 2005, he acted as a consultant on Chinese policies for the Canadian fuel cell and hydrogen energy industry. –
As China becomes the most important source of aggregate greenhouse gases emissions, its choices in the field of energy policy will be key determinants of the world’s success in tackling the global climate change challenge. Environmental concerns have already encouraged China’s leadership to reframe its energy policy in the last few years. Yet, China’s efforts at promoting energy efficiency and at developing its renewable energy industry appear insufficient to slow down the country’s growth in the emission of climate-disrupting gases and to convince other countries of its sincerity. This conference will shed some light on China’s new approach to energy policy, on the problems it faces in turning around its highly polluting mode of development and on the limits these factors impose on successful global climate change talks.
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As is our custom tea and refreshmentswill be served. There will be a charge of $5 for non-CCFS members. The CCFS-Ottawa annual membership is $20 for individuals, $25 for a family and $12 for students.
For further information about the Society or this event, call L. Merklinger at 819-777-8434 or go to www.fccfa.ca/Ottawa. Membership forms are available at this website.
