I joined NRDC in October 2002 working from its New York office on China-related environmental advocacy. Over the past eight years, I witnessed our China team - founded and led by Barbara Finamore - growing from a group of 4 colleagues (including myself) working from the U.S. to a band of some 30 people based primarily in a Beijing office. I have moved from NY to Beijing to head the office since Oct 2008. I also work on two specific initiative, one is named China Sustainable Cities Project and the other Advanced Energy Technology Project. The former aims to encourage Chinese cities to integrate “smart growth” strategies in urban planning and development, and the latter promotes policies that support cleaner energy technology development and deployment, including carbon capture and sequestration, renewable energy and cleaner vehicle technology.
My experience in environmental policy and project management spans more than two decades. Before joining NRDC, I was employed by UNDP and then UNICEF to coordinate environmental projects that assisted developing countries. Until early 90s, I lived in China and worked in Beijing for a petrochemical corporation, a university, and the Ministry of Science and Technology successively. My education includes a Master of Science degree in environmental technology from London Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and a Master of Engineering degree from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. My undergraduate studies were in China at Beijing University of Chemical Technology.
Posted December 30, 2010 by JingJing Qian in Greening China, Living Sustainably
Beijing, a city with a population of 19 million, suffers from increasingly frequent and widespread traffic gridlocks and the air pollution from car exhaust. I previously blogged about a paralyzing traffic jam incident in Beijing in August and discussed possible...continued→
Posted October 20, 2010 by JingJing Qian in Greening China, Solving Global Warming
Last week in Tianjin, NRDC’s team got a first-hand look at China’s ambitious investments in advanced coal technology. The GreenGen project, located in Tianjin’s Binhai New Area, will be China’s first commercial-scale integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant. And...continued→
Posted September 27, 2010 by JingJing Qian in Greening China
China still has a chance to jump over the trap of car dependence and innovate new ways of sustainable living—if it chooses. For over ten days in late August, a traffic jam in the northwest corner of Beijing stretched sixty...continued→
Posted December 9, 2009 by JingJing Qian in Green Enterprise, Greening China, Solving Global Warming
In Copenhagen this week and next, hundreds of side events - if not thousands - are taking place. Some of them are “official” COP15 side events meaning they are registered and provided with conference rooms, such as our NRDC’s held...continued→
Posted October 16, 2009 by JingJing Qian in Greening China, Solving Global Warming
Since the G8 2008 Summit announced its endorsement for pushing the launch of "at least 20 fully integrated industrial-scale carbon capture and storage demonstration projects worldwide by 2010", CCS has been receiving much increased attention from various circles, from government...continued→
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