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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Fan Dai — Decoupling Crisis: Subnational Climate Action and China’s Domestic Coal Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fan Dai\, Assistant Professor\, International Climate Policy\, Goldman School of Public Policy\, University of California\, BerkeleyDiscussant: Henry Lee\, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program; Co-Chair\, Arctic Initiative\, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMore information coming soon.Fan Dai is an Assistant Professor in International Climate Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy\, University of California\, Berkeley. She is also a Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. \n\n\n\nDr. Dai has played a significant role leading California’s collaboration with China on climate\, energy and environment. She was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr as Special Advisor on China. Under Brown\, Dr. Dai chaired the state’s China Interagency Working Group\, and acted as the state’s liaison on its critical economic and environmental initiatives on China. Previously\, Dr. Dai served as senior advisor at California Environmental Protection Agency and California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development\, advising on the state’s international policy and global climate partnership. In 2017\, she organized Governor Brown’s trip\, which resulted in a successful meeting with President Xi Jinping and the commitment to establish the California-China Climate Institute. \n\n\n\nDr. Dai is a graduate of Berkeley Law\, University of California\, and holds a doctoral degree on Environmental Policy and Economics from State University of New York. Her research has been focused on market mechanisms for climate change mitigation\, energy efficiency and innovations. \n\n\n\nHenry Lee is the Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program and Co-Chair of the Arctic Initiative in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at HKS. \n\n\n\nBefore joining HKS in 1979\, Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts State Government as Director of the State’s Energy Office and Special Assistant to the Governor for Environmental Policy. He has served on numerous state\, federal\, and private advisory boards concerning energy and the environment. Lee is a former Chairman of the Massachusetts Stewardship Council\, which oversees state parks and recreation facilities. Additionally\, he has worked with private and public organizations\, including the InterAmerican Development Bank\, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation\, the State of Sao Paulo\, the U.S. Departments of Energy and Interior\, the National Research Council\, the Intercontinental Energy Corporation\, General Electric\, and the U.S. EPA. \n\n\n\nLee’s research interests surround energy and transportation issues\, U.S. climate policy\, China’s energy policy\, and public infrastructure projects in developing countries. Lee is a co-author of Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China (Cambridge University Press\, 2021). His forthcoming publications include: a book chapter on state electricity regulation and climate (with Judy Chang)\, a paper on deploying renewable energy in China (with Bo Bai)\, and a new case study on solid waste disposal in Serbia. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Belfer Center for International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-fan-dai-decoupling-crisis-subnational-climate-action-and-chinas-domestic-coal-challenge/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:***NOW TAKING PLACE VIA ZOOM*** Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Courtney Fung — Can China Achieve its UN Ambitions?
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Webinar Registration Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Courtney Fung\, Associate Professor\, School of International Studies\, Macquarie University\, Sydney\, Australia \n\n\n\nPlease note the different day and time for this Critical Issues talk.***DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER\, THIS LECTURE WILL NOW TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM WEBINAR***REGISTER AT: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_af-PQxTHQXaRabRNCONE6QChina presents itself as a supporter of ‘true multilateralism\,’ with the United Nations as a bedrock institution of global governance. The United Nations’ truly global reach\, China’s UN Security Council veto\, and position as the only legal representative of China in the UN system\, makes the body a key forum for China’s foreign policy. China seeks reform from within the multilateral institution to have it better align with PRC foreign policy preferences.  Indeed\, China’s well-reported multilateral rise is presumed to challenge US leadership in a Western-dominated UN system\, especially in the wake of the recent US departure from various UN bodies. To assess whether China can achieve its UN ambitions\, I first outline China’s power and influence against a basic heuristic of China’s UN contributions\, before focusing on China’s self-proclaimed ‘global public goods’ campaign. I next turn to the Global Development Initiative\, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative to highlight how each of these Initiatives draw upon different facets of power\, clarifying PRC tactics to promote these Initiatives within and through the UN system. My research draws mainly on written primary and secondary sources produced by PRC and UN elites\, and supplemented by insights from PRC\, US and UN officials in Washington\, DC and New York City in May and June 2024\, and Beijing in December 2025. \n\n\n\nDr. Courtney J. Fung is Associate Professor in the Discipline of Security Studies in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney\, Australia. She is concurrently Non-Resident Fellow at LSE IDEAS; the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University; at Asia Society Australia\, and at the Lowy Institute. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University in spring 2024.  Her research focuses on how rising powers address the norms and provisions for global governance and international security\, with a primary focus on China within the UN system. Courtney’s published research spans international civil service personnel contributions and human protection issues broadly defined (e.g. cyber norms\, peacekeeping\, intervention\, and the responsibility to protect) and the effects of status for cooperation and international norm development. Courtney’s book\, China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2019) was shortlisted for the BISA LHM Ling Outstanding First Book Prize. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University.  She serves as an associate editor for H-DIPLO ISSF\, Contemporary Security Policy and the Australian Journal of International Affairs.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-courtney-fung-can-china-achieve-its-un-ambitions/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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