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Qi Ye, Director, Brookings Tsinghua Center for Public PolicyWashington D.C. — Qi Ye, a leading expert on China’s environment policy, has been named director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, Brookings President Strobe Talbott announced today. The Brookings-Tsinghua Center (BTC) is based in Beijing at the School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM) on the campus of Tsinghua University.
Qi Ye’s research focuses on China’s policies on climate change, environment, energy, natural resources and urbanization. His recent work examines low carbon development in China, including an annual report analyzing how China is balancing its economic growth and environmental challenges. Qi Ye also headed up the design of China’s first low carbon development plan, for the city of Baoding in Hebei Province.
“We are very pleased that Qi Ye has agreed to serve as director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center,” said Talbott. “Qi Ye is uniquely positioned to lead the Center into a new period of growth and undertake research on the critical issue of China’s energy use and its environmental impact. Qi Ye's leadership of BTC will further strengthen Brookings' deep bench of expertise on China and U.S.-China relations anchored by the John L. Thornton China Center.”
“Qi Ye's appointment will strengthen further BTC's leadership position as a university-based think tank in China,” said Xue Lan, Professor and Dean of Tsinghua SPPM. “In particular, it will enhance BTC's role as a vital bridge between the Brookings Institution and Tsinghua University and take full advantage of the diverse policy experiences at Brookings and Tsinghua to tackle some of the most daunting policy challenges we are facing today.”
Along with his duties as BTC director, Qi Ye serves as the Cheung Kong Professor of Environmental Policy and Management at Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management. From 1996 through 2003, Qi Ye taught ecosystem management and climate change science at the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Prior to joining the BTC, he was Director, Beijing for the Climate Policy Initiative and Director of the Climate Policy Institute at Tsinghua University.
Dr. Qi received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science in 1994 from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and from Syracuse University in New York. A recipient of a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (1994) and National Science Foundation Fellowship (1995), Qi Ye studied agriculture, ecology and economics at Hebei Agricultural University, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Qi publishes extensively on and serves as reviewers for a number of international journals including Science, Nature and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences,published Environmental Governance in China in 2008, and co-authored a new book, The Governance of Climate Relations between Europe and Asia (2013). He is principal investigator and chief editor of the Annual Review of Low Carbon Development in China which has been published in both English and Chinese since 2010.
Founded in October 2006, the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy (BTC) is a partnership between the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and China’s Tsinghua University. Based in Tsinghua’s School of Public Policy and Management, the BTC seeks to produce high-quality and high-impact policy research in areas of fundamental importance for China’s development and for U.S.-China relations. The BTC provides research by Chinese and American scholars on economic and social issues in China’s development, hosts visiting researchers, and holds seminars, panels and conferences that bring together leading policy experts and officials from China and abroad.
-----today when i do random searches there's a lot to look through - i dont understnad the relationship between hong kong and china mainalnd when it comes to whom is most like;y to chnage the world with green
Daily, we are confronted by shocking statistics on the breadth and depth of China’s pollution challenges. Be it air, soil or water contamination, the problems seem overwhelming and depressing. Here in Hong Kong, we also face multiple environmental issues that directly affect our lives.
Business as usual is clearly unsustainable. There is growing recognition of this fact by individuals, communities, businesses and governments. Encouragingly, in both Hong Kong and mainland China, we are now seeing the emergence of a favourable policy landscape that will help address these challenges.

Why I’m optimistic China can avert an environmental catastrophe

China’s new five-year plan places a heavy emphasis on environmental improvement, requiring greater reductions in the emissions of many pollutants. Its emissions trading programme will expand from seven pilots to nationwide coverage by 2017. China’s place as a world leading manufacturer of wind and solar energy is likely to continue into the future.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the government is executing itsBlueprint for Sustainable Use of Resources with a goal of achieving 55 per cent recycling of waste by 2022 and improving the city’s waste infrastructure. In part, these goals are aimed at reducing the city’s reliance on landfill sites, which are rapidly reaching capacity and will require extension.

Hong Kong’s first e-waste plant to be built by German recycling fir...

Each year, Hong Kong households and businesses throw away more than 70,000 tonnes of electrical and electronic equipment, including televisions, refrigerators and computers. That’s almost 10kg per man, woman and child living in our city. This waste contains valuable and harmful materials which, if not properly treated or disposed of, are hazardous to the environment and human health.
The Hong Kong government must be applauded for tackling this issue head-on through the implementation of a producer responsibility scheme for waste electrical and electronic equipment. It means that when a piece of electrical or electronic equipment is sold in Hong Kong, the supplier will pay a recycling fee to help fund the collection and recycling of the product at the end of its life. As part of the new scheme, a treatment and recycling facility for such waste is being built in Tuen Mun. It will be tasked with recycling up to 56,000 tonnes of this type of waste each year.

Young Hongkongers lagging the old in adapting to green lifestyle

In my home country of Germany, the introduction of a producer responsibility scheme in the 1990s was a watershed moment that helped transform Germany into a world leader in waste management. Being in Hong Kong, I often hear from people that China’s pollution problems are intractable. I do not agree. It is worth remembering that Germany in the 1970s was one of the most polluted countries on the planet, yet today it leads the world in green technology and environmental best practice.

Green business to reap China’s environmental policy rewards

While there are undoubtedly major challenges, it is my view that China will soon be a world leader in this field, achieving its environmental transformation in a shorter time frame than Germany was able to. China has the opportunity to adopt the latest technology that can extract all recyclables from waste streams and turn the remaining waste into green fuel pellets. It can leapfrog other countries by moving from incineration of waste to third-generation treatment in one go and avoid Germany’s mistakes.
Advanced waste management and recycling technologies will also allow China to reduce its reliance on raw material imports as industry captures resources currently buried in landfills for reuse.
I believe the future looks bright for the environment in China. The public has an appetite for a cleaner, more liveable environment and policymakers have started to respond with positive, concrete action. However, we must remain vigilant to ensure consistent progress towards sustainability, no matter what economic cycle we find ourselves in. We need to achieve the golden triangle – strong leadership from our governments, implementation of effective solutions by industry and maintaining the support of the population.
Dr Axel Schweitzer is co-CEO of Alba Group, a world leading German waste management and recycling company which has been awarded the contract to run Hong Kong’s waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling facility. Dr Schweitzer lives in Hong Kong

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101ways-generation.docx 101 ways education can save the world WHAT IF WE DESIGNED LIFELONG LIVELIHOOD LOEARNING SO THAT so that teachers & students, parent & communities were empowered to be ahead of 100 times more tech rather than the remnants of a system that puts macihnes and their exhausts ahead of human life and nature's renewal 2016 is arguably the first time thet educatirs became front and centre to the question that Von neummn asked journalist to mediate back in 1951- what goods will peoples do with 100 times more tech per decade? It appears that while multilaterals like the Un got used in soundbite and twittering ages to claim they valued rifghts & inclusion, pubblic goods & safety, they fotgot theirUN tech twin in Genva has been practising global connectivity since 1865, that dellow Goats of V neumnn has chiared Intellectual Cooperation in the 1920s which pervesrely became the quasi trade union Unesco- it took Abedian inspired educations in 2016 ro reunite ed and tecah as well as health and trade ; 7 decades of the UN not valuing Numenn's question at its core is quite late, but if we dare graviate UN2 aeound this digital coperation question now we give the younger half if the world a chnace especially as a billion poorest women have been synchronised to deep community human development since 1970

Dear Robert - you kindly asked for a short email so that you could see if there is a CGTN anchor in east coast who might confidentially share views with my expectation of how only Asian young women cultural movements (parenting and community depth but amplified by transparent tech in life shaping markets eg health, food, nature..) can return sustainability to all of us
three of my father's main surveys in The Economist 1962-1977 explain imo where future history will take us (and so why younger half of world need friendship/sustainable adaptation with Chinese youth -both on mainland and diaspora)
 1962 consider japan approved by JF Kennedy: argued good news - 2 new economic models were emerging through japan korea south and taiwan relevant to all Asia Rising (nrxt to link the whole trading/supply chains of the far east coast down through hong kong and cross-seas at singapore)
1 rural keynsianism ie 100% productivity in village first of all food security- borlaug alumni ending starvation
2 supercity costal trade models which designed hi-tech borderless sme value chains- to build a 20 million person capital or an 8 million person superport you needed the same advances in engineering - partly why this second economic model was win-win for first time since engines begun Glasgow 1760 ; potentially able to leverage tech giant leaps 100 times ahead; the big opportunity von neumann had gifted us - knowhow action networking multiply value application unlike consuming up things
1976 entrepreneurial revolution -translated into italian by prodi - argued that future globalisation big politics big corporate would need to be triangularised by community scaled sme networks- this was both how innovation advancing human lot begins and also the only way to end poverty in the sense of 21st C being such that next girl born can thrive because every community taps in diversity/safety/ valuing child and health as conditions out of which intergenerational economic growth can spring
in 1977 fathers survey of china - argued that there was now great hope that china had found the system designs that would empower a billion people to escape from extreme poverty but ultimately education of the one child generation (its tech for human capabilities) would be pivotal ( parallel 1977 survey looked at the futures of half the world's people ie east of iran)
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IN MORE DETAIL TECH HUMAN EXPONENTIALS LAST CHANCE DECADE? 
 - we are in midst of unprecedented exponential change (dad from 1960s called death of distance) the  tech legacy of von neumann (dad was his biographer due to luckily meeting him in his final years including neumann's scoping of brain science (ie ai and human i) research which he asked yale to continue in his last lecture series). Exponential risks of extinction track to  mainly western top-down errors at crossroads of tech  over last 60 years (as well as non transparent geonomic mapping of how to reconcile what mainly 10 white empires had monopoly done with machines 1760-1945 and embedded in finance - see eg keynes last chapter of general theory of money); so our 2020s destiny is conditioned by quite simple local time-stamped details but ones that have compounded so that root cause and consequence need exact opposite of academic silos- so I hope there are some simple mapping points we can agree sustainability and chinese anchors in particular are now urgently in the middle of
Both my father www.normanmacrae.net at the economist and I (eg co-authoring 1984 book 2025 report, retranslated to 1993 sweden's new vikings) have argued sustainability in early 21st c will depend mostly on how asians as 65% of humans advance and how von neumann (or moores law) 100 times more tech every decade from 1960s is valued by society and business.
My father (awarded Japan's Order of Rising Sun and one time scriptwriter for Prince Charles trips to Japan) had served as teen allied bomber command burma campaign - he therefore had google maps in his head 50 years ahead of most media people, and also believed the world needed peace (dad was only journalist at messina birth of EU ) ; from 1960 his Asian inclusion arguments were almost coincidental to Ezra Vogel who knew much more about Japan=China last 2000 years ( additionally  cultural consciousness of silk road's eastern dynamics not golden rule of Western Whites) and peter drucker's view of organisational systems
(none of the 10 people at the economist my father had mentored continued his work past 1993- 2 key friends died early; then the web turned against education-journalism when west coast ventures got taken over by advertising/commerce instead of permitting 2 webs - one hi-trust educational; the other blah blah. sell sell .sex sell. viral trivial and hate politicking)
although i had worked mainly in the far east eg with unilever because of family responsibilities I never got to china until i started bumping into chinese female graduates at un launch of sdgs in 2015- I got in 8 visits to beijing -guided by them around tsinghua, china centre of globalisation, a chinese elder Ying Lowrey who had worked on smes in usa for 25 years but was not jack ma's biographer in 2015 just as his fintech models (taobao not alibaba) were empowering villagers integration into supply chains; there was a fantastic global edutech conference dec 2016 in Tsinghua region (also 3 briefings by Romano Prodi to students) that I attended connected with  great womens education hero bangladesh's fazle abed;  Abed spent much of hs last decade hosting events with chinese and other asian ambassadors; unite university graduates around sdg projects the world needed in every community but which had first been massively demonstrated in asia - if you like a version of schwarzman scholars but inclusive of places linking all deepest sustainability goals challenges 
and i personally feel learnt a lot from 3 people broadcasting from cgtn you and the 2 ladies liu xin and  tian wei (they always seemed to do balanced interviews even in the middle of trump's hatred campaigns), through them I also became a fan of father and daughter Jin at AIIB ; i attended korea's annual general meet 2017 of aiib; it was fascinating watching bankers for 60 countries each coming up with excuses as to why they would not lead on infrastructure investments (even though the supercity economic model depends on that)
Being a diaspora scot and a mathematician borders (managers who maximise externalisation of risks) scare me; especially rise of nationalist ones ;   it is pretty clear historically that london trapped most of asia in colomisdation ; then bankrupted by world war 2 rushed to independence without the un or anyone helping redesign top-down systems ; this all crashed into bangladesh the first bottom up collaboration women lab ; ironically on health, food security, education bangladesh and chinese village women empowerment depended on sharing almost every village microfranchise between 1972 and 2000 especially on last mile health networking
in dads editing of 2025 from 1984 he had called for massive human awareness by 2001 of mans biggest risk being discrepancies in incomes and expectations of rich and poor nations; he suggested that eg public broadcast media could host a reality tv end poverty entrepreneur competition just as digital media was scaling to be as impactful as mass media
that didnt happen and pretty much every mess - reactions to 9/11, failure to do ai of epidemics as priority from 2005 instead of autonomous cars, failure to end long-term carbon investments, subprime has been rooted in the west not having either government nor big corporate systems necessary to collaboratively value Asian SDG innovations especially with 5g
I am not smart enough to understand how to thread all the politics now going on but in the event that any cgtn journalist wants to chat especially in dc where we could meet I do not see humans preventing extinction without maximising chinese youth (particularly womens dreams); due to covid we lost plans japan had to relaunch value of female athletes - so this and other ways japan and china and korea might have regained joint consciousness look as if they are being lost- in other words both cultural and education networks (not correctly valued by gdp news headlines) may still be our best chance at asian women empowerment saving us all from extinction but that needs off the record brainstorming as I have no idea what a cgtn journalist is free to cover now that trump has turned 75% of americans into seeing china as the enemy instead of looking at what asian policies of usa hurt humans (eg afghanistan is surely a human wrong caused mostly by usa); a; being a diaspora scot i have this naive idea that we need to celebrate happiness of all peoples an stop using media to spiral hatred across nations but I expect that isnt something an anchor can host generally but for example if an anchor really loves ending covid everywhere then at least in that market she needs to want to help united peoples, transparency of deep data etc

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please map how and why - more than 3 in 4 scots earn their livelihoods worldwide not in our homeland- that requires hi-trust as well as hi-tech to try to love all cultures and nature's diversity- until mcdonalds you could use MAC OR MC TO identify our community engaging networks THAT SCALED ROUND STARTING UP THE AGE OF HUMANS AND MACHINES OF GKASGOW UNI 1760 1 2 3 - and the microfranchises they aimed to sustain  locally around each next child born - these days scots hall of fame started in 1760s around   adam smith and james watt and 195 years later glasgow engineering BA fazle abed - we hope biden unites his irish community building though cop26 -ditto we hope kamalA values gandhi- public service - but understand if he or she is too busy iN DC 2021 with covid or finding which democrats or republicans or american people speak bottom-up sustainable goals teachers and enrrepreneurs -zoom with chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you are curious - fanily foundation of the economist's norman macrae- explorer of whether 100 times more tehc every decade since 1945 would end poverty or prove orwell's-big brother trumps -fears correct 2025report.com est1984 or the economist's entreprenerialrevolutionstarted up 1976 with italy/franciscan romano prodi

help assemble worldrecordjobs.com card pack 1in time for games at cop26 glasgow nov 2021 - 260th year of machines and humans started up by smith and watt- chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk- co-author 2025report.com, networker foundation of The Economist's Norman Macrae - 60s curricula telecommuting andjapan's capitalist belt roaders; 70s curricula entreprenurial revolution and poverty-ending rural keynesianism - library of 40 annual surveys loving win-wins between nations youth biographer john von neumann


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