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MEETING LOCATION:
Room 302, School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Tsinghua
University
Tsinghua in the North West
(toward top edge,
small red type, about 1" from center.)
SAWG Co-Chair:
Professor Ye Qi
SPPM, Tsinghua University
Cell: +86-13311307007
SAWG Co-Chair:
Professor Oran Young
Bren School, UCSB
Cell: +01-805-2843386
Bren School, UCSB, Contact:
Maria Gordon
mgordon@bren.ucsb.edu
Hotel
Unisplendour International Center (UNISCENTER)
www.uniscenter.com
Building 10
No.1 East Road of Zhong
GuanCun HaiDian District
Beijing
The Center is very near to the east
entrance of Tsinghua University and
very close to SPPM.
Click
here for (general) map.
HOTEL PAYMENT
Rooms reserved as group booking. However, the hotel does not
allow a group booking invoice for accommodation and/or transport.
Guests will be expected to pay
for their stay, including transport as they check out. (Please see
Expense Claims sheet below.)
Standard, 2 beds,
breakfast included:
415 RMB per night
Hotel-airport transport: 300RMB
EXPENSE CLAIMS SHEET
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Co-Chairs Report
MEETING DOCUMENTS
The Sino-American Working Group is a multi-year,high-impact,
international working group of policy-makers, scientists, academics,
business leaders and civil society representatives designed play an
active role in shaping the climate and energy policies of China and
the United States - the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse
gasses - and to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
(Read more...)
GENRAL MEETING INFORMATION
Click here for contact, hotel, transport,
and general information.
MEETING OUTLINE
The first formal meeting of the Working Group will take place in November
2008 in China, and will focus on building links between California
and a similarly situated Chinese province (or provinces) with the
goal of building a network of trust among key players, improving mutual
understanding of decision-making on climate and related policy-making
and identifying practical opportunities to enhance cooperation. (Read
more...)
APRIL 2008 MEETING REPORT
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Pre-SAWG MEETING SYMPOSIUM:
Tsinghua Management School, Nov 9-10
How
will U.S. Elections change the agenda for U.S.-China cooperation?
SAWG members joining Panel on Environmental Governance and
Cooperation on Climate.
SAWG members are pleased to be working with government officials
in the US and state environmental protection agencies (EPA).
United States
EPA China Environmental Law Initiative
SAWG NOVEMBER 2008
BACKGROUND READINGS
Reading List: download
here
KEY READINGS
1. Stockholm
GAPF:
Co-benefits-Main Conclusions
2. Stockholm GAPF: Note
on Dissemination of Conclusions
3.
White paper, Oct 29: China's policies and actions on climate change
Multilevel Governance
(Climate Policies at National &
Sub-national Levels)
Deangelo & Harvey
1998
Dilling 2007
Jordan 2000
Koehn 2008
Peterson et al. 2008
Rabe 2007
Yarnal et al. 2003
Climate Change Policy:
Challenging the Activists
G8 Summit 08-Climate
Different Operating Systems
Guttman
Making central-local relations
work [US & China]
Guttman
Preventing
the Tragedy of the CO2 Commons
McKibben et al.
China Government Adviser
(Hu Angang)
Urges Greenhouse Gas
Cuts
Regional & Municipal
Level Initiatives
Underneath Kyoto:
Emerging
Subnational Government
Initiatives...Koehn
Shanghai and Baoding to
become low
carbon city pilots
WWF China
US Political Platforms on Climate Change
Democratic Platform
on
Energy & Environment Aug 08
Obama Campaign Energy Fact Sheet Aug 08
Obama Campaign Environment Fact Sheet
Republican Platform on Energy & Environment
McCain Campaign - Environment
McCain Campaign Energy Plan
Chinese Climate Policy
SAWG_China_Articles_List_1.doc
1_Potential
for reducing carbon
emissions from non-Annex
B countries Bernstein_06
2_National program targets
climate change Feb 16 07
3 China's
National Climate Change
Programme June 07
4
Work with China on climate change:
China Daily June 13 07
5
Climate change - development
the central challenge:
China Daily Nov 28 07
6_China-US
technology cooperation
on Zhongxiang Zhang 07
7
China climate change policy
- domestic & international development
Heffelund 07
8
China's climate change policy making
Yuhongyan 08
9
China view future climate change
Feng Gao 08
10 Climate
change policy in China
Wiener 08
11
CEO plan for G8 leaders on climate change
China Daily July 8 08
12
Fighting climate change
China Daily Oct 7 08
13
National program targets climate change
China Daily Feb 16 07
CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE
On avoiding dangerous anthropogenic
interference with the climate system
Ramanathan and Feng PNAS Sept 08
Global warming-Stop worrying, start panicking?
Global warming-Stop
worrying, start panicking?
Schellnhuber (Response to Ram and Feng) PNAS Sept 08
SAWG APRIL 2008
BACKGROUND READINGS
Potential Topics and Issues
for SAWG Beijing Meeting
Junjie Zhang
Potential Topics
Young
Potential Discussion Topics
Zaelke
Suggested Issues
Chandler
Breaking the Suicide Pact:
U.S./China Cooperation on
Climate Change
Chandler
Video
Thoughts on the need for
a cooperative agreement
between the U.S. and China,
plus other topics.
Guttman & Song
Making central-local relations work:
Comparing America and
China
environmental governance systems
IGSD Briefing Notes
(supplied by Zaelke)
Significant Climate
Mitigation
from Bio-char
March 17, 08
April 23, 08
Reducing Black Carbon
March 27, 08
April 22, 08
Kim & Jones
China - Climate Change
Superpower and
the Clean
Technology Revolution
Myers
Track II Diplomacy
Nature Magazine
Content various:
climate change, brown clouds
Scripps Summary
Black Carbon Pollution
Emerges as Major Player
in Global Warming
Stockholm Group Meeting
April 4, 2008 Draft Report
Weber
Alignment of Interests:
Coal Producers with
the Goal of CO2 Reduction
Weber
Electricity Generation
using Coal as Fuel
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