PROGRAMME

DAY 1:  Climate Change Diplomacy and International Justice

8:45-9:15    Registration

9:15-9:45    Welcoming Remarks (Room AM 308)

                   
Prof. Jesús Seade, Vice President, Lingnan University

Prof. Paul G. Harris, Director of Centre for Asian Pacific Studies & Director of the Environmental Studies Programme

9:45-10:30 Session 1: China and Climate Change Diplomacy (Room AM 308)

Global Sustainability, Climate Change and China: Need for a new paradigm for international cooperation, Mukul Sanwal

Climate Change, Water and China's Security, Scott Moore (Peking University)

10:30-11:00 Coffee and Social break

11:00-12:30 Session 2: Ethics, Justice and Responsibility (Room AM308)

Differentiating (Historic) Responsibilities for Climate Change-Exploring the Case of China, Christian Ellerman*(Oxford University) and Niklas Höhne (Ecofys)

The Chinese (Climate) Box: a Scalar Approach to Evaluating Ethical Obligations in Climate Strategies for China, Erich Schienke (Pennsylvania State University)

The Right to Equal Aspirations and the Duty to be Different as the Basis for a Common Future, Olivia Bina (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Session 3: Sino-US Relations (Room AM 308)

Framing China: US Media, Global Warming, and the Chinese ‘Threat’, Kevin DeLuca (University of Utah) and  Ye Sun (University of Texas at Austin)

The Non-Cooperator Pays Principle: Pragmatic Norms and the US-China Greenhouse Standoff, Jonathan Symons (Lingnan University)

WTO Law as Leverage, Dan Partan (Boston University)

15:30-16:00 Tea break

Parallel Sessions:

16:00-17:00 Session 4-1: China's Relations with Europe and Russia (Room AM 308)

EU-China Relations on Climate Change Policies and the Role of Bilateral Cooperation for a Global Climate Change Regime, Astrid Carrapatoso (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg)

Russian Resources, Chinese Emissions: The Greenhouse-Gas Footprint of Sino-Russian trade, Sondra Venable (University of New Orleans)

16:00-17:00 Session 4-2: Carbon Markets (Room AM310)

Sectoral Approach: What is in it for the Chinese Economy, Shreya Roychowdhury* (Jadavpur University), Joyashree Roy (Jadavpur University) and Moumita Roy (Jadavpur University)

Evaluate CO2 Capture Ready Investment in New-build Thermal Power Plants in China, Xi Liang* (University of Cambridge) David Reiner (University of Cambridge), Jon Gibbins (Imperial College London) and Jia Li (Imperial College London)

DAY 2: National and Multilateral Impacts and Responses
 

9:00-10:30 Session 1: Identifying Multilateral Solutions (Room AM310)

Liability for Climate Change- A Decentralized Approach to Long-Term Climate Policy, Detlef Sprinz, (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)  

Do All Roads Lead to Copenhagen? The Case of China’s Participation in the Post-2012 Climate Change Regime, Ho-Ching Lee (National Central University)

Looking Beyond- Changes for Climate Change, Changes for Development, Gerald Schmidt (Xiangtan University)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions:

11:00-12:30 Session 2-1: Climate Change Policies and Practices in China  (Room AM308)

China’s Dilemma in Climate Change Mitigation: The Energy Problem, Bo Miao (City University of Hong Kong) and Graeme Lang (City University of Hong Kong)

China’s Renewable Energy Policy: From Project-based to Strategic Policy Making: Cases of Wind and Solar, Veronica Pei-Fei Chang* (Catholic University of Leuven) and Hans Bruyninckx (Catholic University of Leuven)

Modeling China’s Climate Change Policy in a Post-2012 framework: On the Perspective of Reputation, Edward Xue-Dong Wang (Sun-Yat Sen University)

11:00-12:30 Session 2-2: Local Impacts of Climate Change (Room AM 310)

Climate change in Hong Kong- observations and projections, Edwin WL Ginn, T.C. Lee and K.Y. Chan (Hong Kong Observatory)
 

The integrated impacts of climate change, water availability and socio-economic development on China's food production, Wei Xiong* (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences), Declan Conway (University of East Anglia), Erda Lin (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) et al.

Rural livelihoods and vulnerability to climate hazards in Ningxia, Northwest China, Declan Conway*  (University of East Anglia), Yue Li (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences), Yanjuan Wu et al.

Ecological Localness and Legitimacy of Science Policy: Mapping Climate Issue in Research over China and Taiwan, Shih-Jung Chen (Chinese Cultural University)

14:00-15:30 Session 3: Environmental attitudes, behaviour and Civil Society 
(Room AM308) 

Sustainable consumption and production as climate change mitigation strategy for China, Patrick Schroeder (UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production)

Public initiatives and local practices in China’s response to climate change, Lei Xie (City University London)

Self-Actualization and Environmental-Behavior Modifications toward climate change: Chinese Perspectives, Kazi Saifuddin* (Jagannath University), Nazmul A Khan (North South University) and Saiful M Islam (Jagannath University)

15:30-16:00 Tea Break

16:00-17:30 Session 4: Chinese Climate Policy Opportunities (Room AM308)

Climate Protection in the People’s Republic of China, Bartosz Rakoczy
(University of Nicholas Kopernika in Toruń)

Embedding climate change in the curriculum, John Willott (Leeds Metropolitan University)

* Presenter