Venue:Conference Hall of Guanghua School of Management (New building), Peking University

Trends in international trade and the environment are mutually interdependent. On the one hand trade liberalization may exaggerate environment trends through increased resource consumption and pollution, and may also lead to the `social dumping` of high polluting industries to low-regulation countries. On the other hand, environmental regulation can help to alleviate these adverse effects and to find a more optimum balance between the often divergent demands of growth and environmental preservation. In light of the fact that unilateral regulation may limit a country`s competitiveness and reduce growth, finding such an optimum in a world with limited inter-country coordination of environment regulation is difficult. This plenary introduces the trade/environment paradigm, raises the need for global coordination, and emphasizes the importance of science in developing methods that will enable the benefits of trade to be sustainably captured.

Opening address

 (chaired by Wang Yuesheng, Director, Department of International Economics, School of Economics, Peking University)

1. Environmental concerns: threat or opportunity for the trade of goods and services and countries` competitiveness?  
2. How to better integrate environmental and sustainable development objectives in trade agreements and practices? 
3. Embodied energy consumption of import and export goods and implications for a country`s trade strategy.
Commentaries

                 
Zhang Yansheng, Director, Institute for International Economic Research, National Development and Reform Commission
Harry Clarke, Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University
Judith M. Dean, Senior International Economist, Research Division, Office of Economics, US International Trade Commission
Wang Yuesheng, Director, Department of International Economics, School of Economics, Peking University
Wu Jiahuang, Vice Chairman, China Society for World Trade Organization Studies, Minister of Commerce
Xia Guang, Director, Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, Minister of Environmental Protection
Xia Youfu, Director, China Institute for Open Economy, University of International Business and Economics
Zhang Xiangchen, Deputy Permanent representative of the Chinese WTO mission in Genev 

Venue: Zhong Hua Banquet Hall, Lake View Hotel

Harvey Fineberg, President, National Institute of Medicine, USA

Venue:Conference Hall of Guanghua School of Management (New building), Peking University

Several regions of the world are facing important challenges since they have to deal with a fast-paced urbanization combined with a weakening environment.
On the one hand, there is a general consensus on the need to protect environmental resources and to integrate the carbon constraint. On the other hand, the urban ratio of the world`s population is projected to reach 60% by 2030. Despite the striking sprawl of mega cities and the challenges it presents, most of the population increase will happen in smaller cities and towns.

Therefore, these global phenomena will change the way cities are managed locally and will create major mutations in the future (infrastructure, land use, etc.). Important transformations are already perceptible such as the development of `green cities`. Indeed, a growing number of projects are emerging all over the world seeking for low carbon impacts, renewable energies, low emissions, energy efficiency, reduced footprint and a comfortable environment for the urban dwellers. In a globalized world, the environmental performance of a city could become a decisive indicator of its competitiveness.
 

Keynote address

(chaired by Chen Aimin, Vice President of SiChuan University)

Qiu Baoxing, Vice Minister, Ministry of Construction, China
Bharat Dahiya, PhD, Human Settlements Officer, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific, Fukuoka, JAPAN
  
Q&A

Commentaries

 Ra Jin-Goo, First Vice Mayor of Seoul, Republic of Korea 

Session 1a: Trade and climate change(chaired by Pan Jiahua)

Venue: Room 109, Guanghua School of Management (New building), Peking University

Climate change being a global issue and arguably a global public `bad`, international collaboration is fundamental to ensuring effective policy response. The Kyoto Protocol offers three mechanisms for sharing the responsibility: the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); Joint Implementation (JI), and Emissions Trading. Under the Protocol, specific requirements to reduce greenhouse gas apply only to developed countries, although possibilities are open for similar restrictions to be applied to developing countries in the future. Some have argued that this has limited the impact of the Protocol. This session explores the controversial role of developing countries in addressing the issues raised by the Kyoto Protocol. It aims to specifically examine how climate change policies and methods might be adapted to a developing country context, including, for example, the wider promotion of CDM and greater collaboration on carbon trading.

Pan Jiahua, Director, Urban Development and Environment Research Center, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Muthukumara Mani, Senior Environmental Economist, Environment Department, World Bank, India
Sheng Fulai, Economist, UNEP
Zhang Jianping, Director, Department of International Economic Cooperation, Institute for International Economic Research, National Development and Reform Commission
Zhu Liucai, Research Fellow of Center for Human and Economic Development Studies; Deputy Director, China Secretariat of Global Environment Facility, Foreign cooperation Center of the State Environmental Protection Administration
 

Session 1b: Green cities(chaired by Dong Suocheng)

Venue: Room 110, Guanghua School of Management (New building), Peking University

Dealing with environmental challenges and meeting the needs of a growing population have changed the way cities operate. With regulations becoming more stringent on what can go back into the ecosystem (air, soil, water), local governments are expected to manage their city in a responsible manner and to promote sustainable lifestyles. From water to waste management, cities are encouraged to reduce their impacts, avoid waste and limit pollutions. This transformation requires moving from a linear model, according to which a city is a resources consumer and a waste producer, to a more integrated and circular model, which turns waste into resources and develops alternative technologies. The change towards an eco-friendlier management calls for the cooperation of all, governments, business sector, communities, experts, etc.

Dong Suocheng, Director of Regional Eco-economic Research and Planning Center, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Manfred Fischedick, Vice-President and Director, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, Germany
Terry McGee, Professor, Former Director, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada
Niu Shaoyao, Former Vice-chairman of Yun Nan Province National People`s Committee Standing Committee, the lead of Dianchi Lake Water Pollution Control Experts Governmental Surveillance team of Yun Nan Province
Zhou Hongchun, Division Chief Research Professor, Development Research Center of the State Council, China

Session 1c: Urban environment and health(chaired by Jennifer Holdaway)

Venue: Room 111, Guanghua School of Management (New building), Peking University

The quality of the urban environment will play and increasing role in public health as cities will potentially concentrate emerging environmental and health hazards. Therefore, the monitoring of the impacts on health of urban sources of pollution (air, water, etc) and their control are necessary. Integrating the management of health and urban pollution in cities can help prevent health-threatening environmental issues. Cities can contribute to human well being if they achieve to protect urban dwellers health and deal with challenges such as the access to sanitation, waste management, outdoor and indoor air pollution.
                        

Jennifer Holdaway, Program Director, Social Science research Council, USA
Steven Allender,   Senior Researcher, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK and Associate Professor, Director CO-OPS collaboration, WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention Deakin University, Australia  
Kam Wing Chan, Professor, Deptartment of Geography, University of Washington
Liu Minquan, Professor and Director, Department of Development Economics, School of Economics, Peking University; Director of Center for Human and Economic Development Studies, Peking University
Wang Wuyi, Researcher, Doctorial Tutor, Institute of geographic sciences and natural resources research, CAS.

Session 2a: Green Trade Policy(chaired by Hu Tao)

Venue: Room 109, Guanghua School of Management (New building), Peking University

Trade issues are closely related to environmental issues. Non-sustainable trade will exacerbate environmental pollution, while a heavily polluted environment will have a negative impact on trade growth. Thus, green trade policies are essential to achieving a harmonious development of trade and the environment. Appropriate environmental protection and trade measures will need to be adopted to optimize the trade structure, adjust the total trade volume, and improve the environment. This session explores issues ranging from green trade measures (including tariff and non-tariff measures), carbon tariff, and experiences of developed countries in green trade policies, etc.

Hu Tao, Researcher, Environmental and Economics Policy Research Center
Mikael Skou Andersen, Professor, Dept. of Policy Analysis, National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Bian Yongmin, Professor, School of Law, University of International Business and Economics
Shailaja Fennell, Lecturer in Development Studies, Department of Land Economy, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK
Guo Hongyan, Research Fellow of Center for Human and Economic Development Studies, Peking University
Mao Xianqiang, Professor, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University
Wang Dashu, Professor, School of Economics, Peking University  

Session 2b: Mobility(chaired by Jiang Yulin)

 Venue: Room 110, Guanghua School of Management (New building), Peking University

This session has been organized in collaboration with the Institut pour la ville en mouvement (City on the Move) .

With rapid urbanization and growing environmental concern, local actors have to integrate these constraints and adapt the spatial organization of the city while offering innovative mobility options. From public transport (buses, tramways, etc.) to bicycles and car sharing, there is a need to find alternatives to private car use, especially in rapidly urbanizing countries. Not only would it contribute to limit traffic congestion, and reduce air pollution, but it would help make cities more liveable and sustainable.

Jiang Yulin, Director of the Urban Transportation Center, China Academy of Transportation Sciences
Daniel Cukierman, CEO, Veolia Transport, Asia
Jean-Fran?ois Doulet, Associate Professor, Paris Institute of Urban Planning and Sciences Po and Head of the China Programme, Institut pour la ville en mouvement (City on the Move)
Fran?ois Moisan, Scientific Director, French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), France 
Pan Haixiao, Professor, College or Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
 

Session 2c : Environment and human development(chaired by Adil Najam)

Venue: Room 111, Guanghua School of Management (New building), Peking University

From the human development (HD) viewpoint, economic growth is merely a tool for achieving the underlying goal of human development—an expansion of human capabilities. How are environmental concerns to be addressed within this view?  What accounting metrics could there be to include the environment from this viewpoint, and how would this compare with the Green GDP paradigm? Papers on issues of the meaning and demands of sustainable human development, and empirical studies of environmental and sustainability issues from an HD perspective are also welcome.

Adil Najam, Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy; Director, Pardee Center; Professor of International Relations and Professor of Geography and Environment, Boston University, USA
Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative Oxford, Department of International Development, UK
Ji Xi, Research Fellow of Center for Human and Economic Development Studies
Julie Newton, Research Associate, Sustainable Communities, The ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University U.K. 

 

Venue:Conference Hall of Guanghua School of Management (New building), Peking University

Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman IPCC and Director General of TERI, India
Vice Minister, Ministry of Environmental Protection
Q&A
Huang Guitian, Vice Dean, School of Economics, Peking University  
Georges Valentis, Director of Veolia Environnement Institute