Green & Clean Forum

In recent years, the European Chamber of Commerce in China has held an annual environmental Forum here in Nanjing, & this year’s session not surprisingly focused on air pollution – and was entitled ‘The Air We Breathe: Air Quality Management, Monitoring and Advanced Solutions.’ The Chamber has been very gracious in allowing our HNC students to participate, and I made it a special point to have students enrolled in my ‘Air Pollution and Its Control’ course attend.

I was asked by the Chamber to be a speaker at the Forum, and gave a presentation entitled The Role of MRV (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) in China’s Emissions Trading. This is obviously a key issue in ensuring that China actually achieves the commitments it has made at the UN’s COP 21 conference in Paris – and so there was considerable interest regarding the topic, both in the meeting itself and subsequent discussions.