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start date and time: Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 9:00 AM

end date and time: Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 11:05 AM

categories:   environment & nature   international

event description:

video webcast -

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. presents a panel discussion on A Changing Climate in China - Looking Beyond Kyoto. The panelists will discuss how unrestrained industrialization in China has made the country increasingly vulnerable to climate changes and the impact of floods, droughts, and other disasters.

This industrialization causes China to emit high levels of greenhouse gases and they are resisting placing restrictions on those emissions. The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty intended to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, involving targets for the years 2008 to 2012. With upcoming meetings about the protocol in 2009, it is important to determine China's post-2012 climate regime.

Panelists are -

- Pan Jiahua - Research Center for Urban and Environmental Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

- Cheng Hongbo - Research Center for Urban and Environmental Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

- Wang Mou - Research Center for Urban and Environmental Studies aat the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

The Wilson Center was established in 1968 by an act of Congress as a living memorial to President Woodrow Wilson. The nonpartisan institution is supported by public and private funds and engages in the study of national and world affairs. It provides a neutral forum for lively, free, and informed dialogue.

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