Beijing

Dr. Wang (left) and Prof. Tang

I spent another three weeks as a guest of Peking University in June, meeting with the faculty and students, catching up on China’s environmental news, doing some plant site visits, lecturing, etc., etc.  On this trip I had a chance to have lunch with my Chinese faculty mentor and good friend Prof. Tang Xiaoyan, who guided me around China on my very first 1990 visit, and who has worked with me on numerous projects over the years. You can see her in the photo, along with Dr. Wang Weili, the Vice Director of CICETE (the group that acts as the liaison between the Chinese government and the UN on energy & environmental projects; you might remember Dr. Wang from an April 2009 posting). Prof. Tang travels even more than I do, and she’s been away during my recent trips, so it was really great to see her once again!

I also made a full-day presentation for a new GEF/World Bank project I’ve been working on, addressing SO2 emissions trading in Shanxi and Shandong Provinces. This effort is part of a larger GEF China Thermal Power Efficiency Project, and my presentation covered international experience with this kind of emissions trading. I’ll be working with this Shanxi/Shandong group over the next year, as well as with their national consultants from Tsinghua U. and the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, and I’m very much looking forward to that!

Shanxi & Shandong GEF/World Bank meeting