Podcasts about china environment forum

Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, Legal and Policy Director at the NGO Oceana, is taking on the Philippine government. A decades-old solid waste management law has not been enforced, contributing to massive piles of plastic….where waste pickers make their livelihood. Will the courts require the government to start banning single use plastic? And can a UN plastic treaty reinforce southeast nation's waste management and data collection laws… to finally make a dent in the plastic waste crisis in Asia?This new three episode season is co-produced by the China Environment Forum with support from The Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership.Guests:Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, Legal and Policy Director, Oceana, The PhilippinesDr. Simachaya, President, Thailand Environment InstituteSubscribe for Sustainable Asia latest episodes and review us on listennotes!Check out the Wilson Center's plastic blogs and dialogues.Also just published! Regional Research Inventory of marine plastics research in the seas of East Asia from National University of Singapore (NUS) Production credits:Executive Producer: Marcy Trent LongAssociate Producer: WuYuFeiSound Engineer: Avery ChoiIntro/outro music: Alex MauboussinMusic from Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue):Dolly and PadMusic from Free Music Archive:scottholmesmusic.com, Blue Moon, Kai Engel -coelumSounds from FreeSound:Suncord_Audiolab

Could it be true that countries from the UN Environment Assembly committed to negotiate a global plastic treaty over the next two years? And even if the treaty is signed…will it have enough teeth to make a difference to the plastic waste crisis that has persisted over the last decade here in Asia? In this episode, we speak with experts from Japan, New Zealand, and Indonesia about whether the UN can do for plastic what the Paris Agreement has done for climate change.This new three episode season is co-produced by the China Environment Forum with support from The Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership.Guests:Trisia Farelly, Massey University, New ZealandLinda Yanti Sulistiawati, National University of Singapore, Singapore and IndonesiaMichikazu Kojima, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, JapanSubscribe for Sustainable Asia latest episodes and review us on listennotes!Check out the Wilson Center's plastic blogs and dialogues. Production credits:Executive Producer: Marcy Trent LongAssociate Producer: WuYuFeiSound Engineer: Avery ChoiIntro/outro music: Alex MauboussinMusic from Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue):VK Mendl, Dolly and PadMusic from Free Music Archive:Music by scottholmesmusic.com, Blue Moon, Kai Engel -coelum

Put on your headphones and get ready for two new seasons from the Sustainable Asia Podcast about the Global Plastic Treaty and Asia's Air Pollution woes.Guests:Jennifer L. Turner, China Environment Forum of Wilson Center, Washington DCAnd from Sustainable Asia:WuYuFei, Fujian, ChinaKhoa Tran, Hong Kong, ChinaChermaine Lee, Hong Kong, ChinaMarcy Trent Long, Hong Kong, ChinaSubscribe for Sustainable Asia latest episodes and review us on listennotes!Check out the China Environment Forum and the Wilson Center for great research and webinars on plastic pollution.Production credits:Sound Engineer: Avery ChoiIntro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, our guests are Anders Beal, Andrea Capurro, and Maximiliano Bello. Anders describes a new project from the Latin American Program, Latin America's Environmental Policies in Global Perspective. Andrea and Max discuss their contributions to the project, focusing on ocean health issues. The project is co-sponsored by the Brazil Institute, Environmental Change and Security Program, China Environment Forum, and Global Europe Program. It explores how environmental challenges in Latin America increasingly influence the region's most important diplomatic and economic relationships.

Sharon Guynup is an award-winning journalist and editor who covers endangered species, ecosystems, climate change, energy, environmental health issues, pollution, national security, and other issues. She's written for National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Scientific American, The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Mongabay, and other outlets. She speaks on public panels and is a global fellow with the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program and China Environment Forum.Sharon's investigation for National Geographic into wildlife trafficking from the Tiger Temple in Thailand prompted officials to shut it down and seize the monastery's 147 tigers.Her stories have earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, New York City's Deadline Club, and an Arlene Award for “an article that makes a difference” from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.Sharon produces multimedia pieces and has worked on TV and film projects, most recently, National Geographic Channel's 2020-21 TRAFFICKED series. She has edited special issues and articles for outlets including The Conversation and Scientific American and launched the"State of the Wild" book series for the Wildlife Conservation Society.Learn more at SharonGuynup.com. Check out Tigers Forever on Amazon.

Jennifer Turner explains the recent evolution of China's dynamic new energy vehicle industry, including how it will influence electric vehicles in the United States and around the world. Jennifer Turner is the director of the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum and manager of its Global Choke Point Initiative. She is a widely-quoted expert on U.S.-China environmental cooperation as well as climate-related challenges and governance issues facing the world’s most populous country. For more videos and podcasts from the U.S.-China HORIZONS series, visit us at ncuscr.org/HORIZONS.

Guest host Jennifer Turner, Director of the China Environment Forum for the Woodrow Wilson Center, talks with UN Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh and renowned freediver JesSea Lu about why they chose to plunge themselves into the frozen seas off Antarctica. How are they using this amazing feat as a platform with CCAMLR members China and Russia to advocate for preserving one of the last undisturbed regions on earth? GuestsJessea Lu, Female freediver Lewis Pugh, UN Patron of Oceans Highlights:03:16 Jessea Lu walks through her Antarctica Diving Experience06:36 Jessea Lu takes the experience back to China to promote Antarctica conservation08:58 How Lewis Pugh decided to use athletic diplomacy to preserve Southern Ocean12:10 Lewis Pugh harrowing experience swimming through ice tunnel in East Antarctica13:36 Why marine protected areas are needed to protect the animals of AntarcticaFurther Reading and ListeningWebinar: Protecting Antarctica in the Postponed "Super Year of Nature" from The China Environment Forum of the Woodrow Wilson InstituteWebsite: Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean from The Pew Charitable TrustsVideo: Lewis Pugh 2020 East Antarctica SwimVideo: Jessea Lu Antarctica FreeDiveWebsite: Jessea Lu’s diving adventuresWebsite: Lewis Pugh’s diving and endurance swimming achievementProduction credits:Producer and Host: Marcy Trent Long Head Writer: Chermaine LeeAssociate producer: Stella ChanSound Engineer: Chris WoodIntro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin Jessea Lu video credit to HarborHouseLife and www.JesseaDiving.comLewis Pugh video credit Lewis Pugh Foundation Follow us on Twitter@SustainableAsia and Facebook@sustainableasiaco. Sign up for email updates on our website.

Jennifer Turner, Director of the China Environment Forum for the Woodrow Wilson Center, talks with Dr. Liu Nengye and Julian Chen. How does China’s investment in new fishing vessels and icebreakers bound for Antarctica impact their decision to approve three new marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean?GuestsDr. Liu Nengye, Macquarie Law School Julian Chen, Greenovation HubHighlights:03:27 China’s history with Antarctica governing body CCAMLR07:12 Why did China agree to the Ross Sea marine protected area proposal in 2016?11:25 China’s marine research capability and challenges15:40 Is it likely for China to want to protect more areas in Antarctica?Further Reading and ListeningWebinar: China's Role in Saving the Wild Southern Ocean from The China Environment Forum of the Woodrow Wilson InstituteWebsite: Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean from The Pew Charitable TrustsProduction credits:Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long Associate producer: Chermaine LeeSound Engineer: Chris WoodIntro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin Follow us on Twitter@SustainableAsia and Facebook@sustainableasiaco. Sign up for email updates on our website.

Jennifer Turner, Director of the China Environment Forum for the Woodrow Wilson Center talks with two Chinese experts about rising ocean conservation awareness in China and why protecting the pristine southern ocean ecosystem of Antarctica is good for the planet...and good for China. GuestsDr. Bin Bin Li, Duke Kunshan UniversityDr. Julia Xue, Shanghai Jiaotong UniversityHighlights08:20 Why are marine protected areas important?15:37 China’s goal to protect 5% of its territorial waters by 202011:45 Rising ocean awareness in China and pressure on policy makers to protect it14:30 China’s commitment under Biodiversity Convention to protect 10% world’s ocean 16:35 Right to fish may be important now to China. But China's leadership on the environmental movement is important for the next generation.Further Reading and ListeningWebinar: China's Role in Saving the Wild Southern Ocean from The China Environment Forum of the Woodrow Wilson InstituteWebsite: Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean from The Pew Charitable Trusts

This week we're talking with Jennifer Turner, director of the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum, where she publishes research and creates exchanges focused on a variety of China’s energy and environmental challenges. She also serves as editor of the center's journal, the China Environment Series. Talking with us from Washington D.C., Jennifer spoke about the evolution of China’s climate change and environmental policies and how its “war on pollution” and climate change initiatives could be impacted by the economic downturn of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also discuss other environmental issues facing China, including deforestation and the environmental impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative.  

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we are joined by Danielle Neighbour, Schwarzman Fellow at the Kissinger Institute and China Environment Forum.  She discusses how the US-China trade war is shifting the balance of how water is exchanged between the two nations and how “virtual water” plays a significant role in the global goods trade.

Each year climate negotiators gather for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties, or COP, to discuss how to address climate change. But how does science inform climate policy? Is climate policy actually based in science? Should technical professionals become involved in climate policy? If so, how? In this episode of ClimateReady, we bring in two people neck deep in climate and water policy despite having largely technical backgrounds. AGWA's Coordinator, Dr. John Matthews, interviews the Director of IUCN's Global Water Program, Dr. James Dalton, about the need for technical perspectives in the world of policy. Together, a biologist and an engineer discuss the challenges of entering a fast-paced arena that sometimes requires compromise and generalizations and the means by which interested (especially young) professionals can enter the fray. Following their conversation, we hear a “Postcard from the Future” that takes us to Beijing in 2050. Danielle Neighbour of the China Environment Forum at the Wilson Center highlights the benefits of coordinated water recycling for addressing water security in urban and rural settings. You can learn more about IUCN's Global Water Program at https://www.iucn.org/theme/water and the China Environment Forum at https://www.wilsoncenter.org/program/china-environment-forum.

China is a country with over 600 million gamers. What if all of this game playing could lead to good? With its Serious Games Initiative, the DC-based Wilson Center is working to communicate science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming. Most recently, the Serious Games Initiative teamed up with another Wilson Center project,“Storytelling is Serious Business,” to introduce local Chinese NGOs to how games like “Card Against Calamity” and “Eco Chains” could serve as vehicles for policy change.    In this episode, we chat with Beijing Energy Network veteran speaker Jennifer Turner, director of the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum, and her colleague Elizabeth Newbury, who directs the Wilson Center’s Serious Games Initiative. Jennifer and Liz share their experiences introducing "serious games" to NGOs in China during their most recent trip and discuss the potential for local NGOs to leverage gaming to improve China’s environmental policies. Jennifer also reflects on her 18 years of building bridges between Chinese and US environmental civil society and where Chinese green civil society may be headed going forward.   You can read more about the Serious Games Initiative on the Wilson Center’s website here: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/program/serious-games-initiative. And if you listened to our second ever episode with Jennifer on “poo power,” you might be keen to check out the hot-off-the-press "InsightOut Issue 4 - Waste Power: Can Wastewater Revolutionize Pollution Control and Clean Energy in Cities?," also on the Wilson Center’s website here: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/insightout-issue-4-waste-power-can-wastewater-revolutionize-pollution-control-and-clean.

Episodes 5-8 of the ELEEP network podcast present insights from a conference organized by the Atlantic Council and Ecologic Institute, which took place June 21-22 in Washington DC. Under the heading “Tipping Points: Finding the Energy-Climate Balance,” the conference brought together decision-makers, civil society, business leaders and scholars to reflect on the nexus of energy and climate policy in the United States, Europe and the international arena. The conference agenda covered a range of different topics and included talks by some of the brightest minds in the field. This episode features a panel discussion on the future of the Paris Climate Agreement. What are the next steps in implementation? What challenges may arise now that the current US administration has decided to leave the agreement? Does this represent a roadblock or may it have a galvanizing effect, raising the ambition of other countries and subnational actors within the US? The conference panel included Dr. Jennifer Turner, Director of the China Environment Forum at the Wilson Center; Matthias Duwe, Head of Climate at Ecologic Institute; and David Livingston, Associate Fellow at the Energy and Climate Program of the Carnegie Endowment for international Peace. The panel was moderated by former ambassador, Richard Morningstar, founding director of the Global Energy Center at the Atlantic Council. To find out more about the Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy (ELEEP) Network and view pictures and further impressions from the EU study tour on climate adaptation, please visit the ELEEP Website (www.eleep.eu). If you enjoyed this podcast episode, please subscribe to the ELEEP Network podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or SoundCloud. To let us know your thoughts on the podcast feel free to send us an email (contact@eleep.eu). We'd love to hear from you! Special thanks to: Robert Ostwald (Ecologic Institute) Produced by: Nick Evans (Ecologic Institute) Music: "American Drab" by Nick Evans

"Renewable energy" typically conjures up images of rooftops decked out in solar panels or wind turbines twirling on a hillside.  But there are also less “picturesque” forms of clean energy— including sludge, a byproduct of wastewater treatment. Did you know that an increasing number of U.S. cities are turning sewage into renewable low-carbon electricity? Maybe "poo power" has a future in China, too. In this episode, we interview Jennifer Turner, director of the Wilson Center's China Environment Forum and manager of the Global Choke Point Initiative, as she relays stories of a "forgotten renewable" and how new applications such as wastewater sludge to energy may transform city systems in the USA and China. Jennifer also explains why we should pay more attention to the art of storytelling. Find out more about the China Environment Forum here: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/program/china-environment-forum.  *We apologize for the sound quality in this pilot episode. We've identified the equipment problem, and subsequent episodes will not have this issue.

China and the Environment: An Olympic-sized Challenge On the eve of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Terre Verde speaks with Jennifer Turner of the China Environment Forum and Xiu Min Li of Pacific Environment on China's environmental problems, and how ordinary citizens are responding. The post Terra Verde – August 8, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.