About the China Environment Forum
Housed within the ÀÖÓã ÌåÓý's Environmental Change and Security Program, the China Environment Forum (CEF) examines trends in Chinese domestic and overseas environmental and energy policies to inform US policymaking.
CEF leverages projects, workshops, and exchanges with business, governmental, and nongovernmental communities, including the Turning the Tide on Plastics in Asia initiative examining trends, innovative partnerships and policies to reign in plastic pollution in China and Southeast Asia and Choke Point: China, which explored the country’s water-energy nexus.
CEF’s strategic pillars
1. China and the Global Energy Transition: As the world’s largest investor in clean energy technologies, China is flexing its muscle in the Global South, where countries like Indonesia, Pakistan, and Ethiopia are seeking to strengthen their energy security through low-carbon development. CEF is producing research and analysis that helps decision-makers stay ahead of the curve in understanding China’s next move and what it means for US interests.
2. Cool Agriculture: Food and agriculture generate 31% of global greenhouse gas emissions. CEF is delving into the drivers of these emissions in the US and China, the world’s top two agrifood emitters.
3. Vulnerable Deltas: Together with the East-West Center and partners in Southeast Asia, CEF is generating innovative research, policy dialogues and learning tools around environment, pollution and development threats facing five Asian river deltas — Three in SE Asia (Chao Phraya, Mekong, Mahakam) and two in China (Yangtze, and Pearl).
The Plastic Pipeline: CEF and the ÀÖÓã ÌåÓý’s Serious Games Initiative developed an award-winning educational video game: . In the game, players explore the life cycle of single-use plastics, and uncover policies, consumer and business actions that can plug pollution leaking into our oceans.
Internships with the China Environment Forum