Plenary Session I:

 

Mr. Wen Bo - "A Road to Sustainability? China's Policies and Realties"

Wen Bo is Pacific Environment's Beijing-based China Program Co-Director. Wen Bo graduated from China School of Journalism in Beijing, and earned his master's degree in international relations at KDI School of International Policy and Management in Seoul, South Korea. He was a journalist at China Environment News from 1996 to 1998, and studied for a certificate course at the Center for Environment Education in India in 1997. He attended a six-month visiting program with National Committee on US-China Relations in the US.  In 2000 he set up a Greenpeace office in Beijing, and is currently on the China Advisory Board of Global Greengrants Fund to facilitate the growth of environmental communities in China. He was a Asia 21 Young Leaders Fellow of Asia Society during 2007-2008, a PEW fellow on marine conservation from 2009-2011 and a World Economic Forum's Young Global Leader Honoree 2009.

     
     
Mr. Lam Chiu Ying - "Climate Change and Sustainable Development - A Metropolis View"

Chartered Meteorologist and Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society, recently retired as Director of the Hong Kong Observatory and Chairman of the Hong Kong Meteorological Society.  Mr Lam studied physics at the University of Hong Kong and meteorology at the Imperial College, London.  Mr Lam is well respected internationally.  He was the Vice President of the Asian arm of the World Meteorological Organization in 2003-2008, and has also be engaged to lead expert and consultant missions by the WMO on various occasions.  Mr Lam was a contributing author of the UN IPCC 4th Assessment Report.  He lectures widely on the subject of climate change, hoping to raise public awareness about the subject.

     
     
Plenary Session II:

 

Professor Michael Redclift - "Sustainable Development. Does it have a future?"

Michael Redclift is Professor of International Environmental Policy in the Department of Geography, at King's College, University of London. His research interests include sustainable development, global environmental change, environmental security and the modern food system. Between 1973 and 1997 he was at Imperial College at Wye, ultimately as Professor of Environmental Sociology. In 1987 his book Sustainable Development: exploring the contradictions was published by Routledge. He was the first Director of the Global Environmental Change programme of the ESRC between 1990 and 1995, and has coordinated research grants for the European Commission (FM IV and V), and for the TERM programme of the European Science Foundation. He has also held grants from the ESRC/AHRC (2003-2005) and, in 2007, began research on a three year study (with Mark Pelling and David Manuel) of coastal urbanisation and adaptation to climate change and environmental risks in the Mexican Caribbean. In 2006 he was the first recipient of the 'Frederick Buttel Award', from the International Sociological Association (RC 24). Recent books include: Chewing Gum: the fortunes of taste, (2004, Taylor and Francis, New York) and in 2006 completed a major comparative study for MIT Press: Frontiers: histories of civil societies and nature.