EEMI hosted the seminar "The Carbon Exchange in China" at GW

On August 22, the SEAS Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) hosted the seminar “The Carbon Exchange in China” here in the SEH.  EMSE Professor. Jonathan Deason, Joe Cascio and Alex Beehler organized the event with the International Fund for China’s Environment.  The main speakers at the event were Mr. Dewen Mei, president of the Beijing Environmental Exchange (CBEEX), and Dr. Ping He, president of the International Fund for China’s Environment (IFCE).  The Chinese government is making major headway in implementing the Paris Agreement of April 2016, which so far has been signed by 180 nations.  The EEMI is establishing partnership arrangements with the CBEEX and IFCE in conjunction with its new online graduate certificate program in Greenhouse Gas Management, scheduled to be launched in January 2017.