Feb. 17, 2022: Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China

Achieving decarbonization in China will imply dramatic transformations to the economy, necessitating a long-term view on policy and technological change. The next decade is important to establish climate and energy institutions that will guide this transformation while addressing other pressing environmental issues such as air pollution. Michael Davidson and Wei Peng, two co-authors of Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China (Cambridge University Press, 2022), will discuss the main challenges–and key options–lying ahead for Chinese policy-makers in the electricity and coal sectors. The link to the book: [ Ссылка ]

Speakers:
• Michael Davidson, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
• Wei Peng, Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University
• Jade Guedes, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (Moderator)
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This webinar series is organized by the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. For more information on China activities, as well as recordings of previous webinars, please visit china.ucsd.edu.

Bio: Michael Davidson holds a joint faculty appointment at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Jacobs School of Engineering. His research focuses on the engineering implications and institutional conflicts inherent in deploying renewable energy at scale, an issue of particular salience and importance at the intersection of Chinese politics, environment, energy, climate change and U.S.-China cooperation.
His recent work has examined the potential for the integration of wind power in China’s coal-based electric grid, the political economy of energy technology development programs in China, and policy recommendations for reform of China’s electricity sector.
He is a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow at the National Committee of U.S.-China Relations from 2021 until 2023. He was previously a Fulbright Fellow to Tsinghua University and the U.S.-China climate policy coordinator for the environmental nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Bio: Wei Peng is an assistant professor of international affairs and civil and environmental engineering, School of International Affairs’ (SIA) first jointly appointed faculty member with the College of Engineering. Peng’s research focuses on the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of energy policies in both emerging markets and advanced economies. Prior to her arrival at SIA, Peng was a Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Her research has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Energy, and Nature Sustainability, among others. She earned her Ph.D. in science, technology, and environmental policy from Princeton University and her B.S. in environmental science from Peking University.

Bio: Jade d’Alpoim Guedes is an environmental archaeologist and ethnobiologist whose geographic focus of research is southwest and northwest China. She employs an interdisciplinary research program to understand how humans adapted their foraging practices and agricultural strategies to new environments over the course of the past 10,000 years and have developed resilience in the face of climatic and social change. She employs a variety of different methodologies in her research, including archaeobotany, paleoclimate reconstruction and computational modeling, working primarily in the Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu provinces and the Tibetan autonomous region. She is currently the lead principal investigator on an international collaboration project for archeological research in Jiuzhaigou National Park in southwestern China.

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