As NRDC’s China Climate and Energy Policy Director, my work focuses on providing policy analysis that can help China to expand its energy efficiency and renewables resources and put in place the proper incentives and systems for low-carbon development. I believe that China’s rapid economic growth and accompanying environmental harms pose both a challenge and an opportunity for it to become a leader in forging a sustainable development path that is less reliant on fossil fuels and minimizes our impact on our environment.
I was born and raised in Ohio, studied political science and East Asian studies at Yale, then spent two years in Hong Kong where I attended the Chinese University of Hong Kong and wrote a thesis on the movement to protect Hong Kong’s harbor from reclamation. In law school at NYU, I took the environmental law clinic with NRDC, working on a case to prevent a rollback of federal air conditioner efficiency standards. After working for a few years as a litigator and judicial clerk in New York, I moved to Beijing to begin working in NRDC’s China Program, where I’ve had the chance to cooperate with policymakers, energy and environmental experts, and NGOs to advance clean energy in China.
Posted July 20, 2011 by Alvin Lin in Greening China, Solving Global Warming
On July 12, Chinese government representatives and climate change experts convened the opening meeting of the China climate change legislation research project, intended to examine both international experiences with climate change legislation and relevant domestic laws in an effort to...continued→
Posted December 11, 2010 by Alvin Lin in Solving Global Warming
At about 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning, after two weeks of negotiations with often quite divergent views, the parties at the Cancun climate conference emerged from the process with important agreements on how to move forward together to address climate change. ...continued→
Posted December 1, 2010 by Alvin Lin in Greening China, Solving Global Warming
Chinese climate negotiator Su Wei (center) at China's December 1st side event on China's climate actions. As the third day of the two-week climate negotiations in Cancun draws to a close, we are seeing reasons for optimism that there will...continued→
Posted October 19, 2010 by Alvin Lin in Greening China, Solving Global Warming
From November 4-9, for the first time in its nearly twenty year history, the UN negotiations to forge a collective, global response to address climate change came to China, marking a landmark in China’s participation in and support of the...continued→
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