China and Climate Security

Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program, China Environment
Forum, Environmental Change and Security Program, and Kissinger
Institute on China and the United States for

China and Climate Security

featuring

Linda Jakobson, Senior Researcher, Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute

Discussant: TBA

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004

The concept of climate security is still new in China, even though
Beijing has committed to a broad climate change agenda that targets a
substantial increase in energy efficiency as well as an expansion of
renewable energy use and forestation. What shifts in domestic, foreign
and security policies can be expected from China as it broadens its
focus from combating climate change to implementing measures to deal
with climate security? What could be the implications for the region and
possibly even for global security mechanisms?

Linda Jakobson joined the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI) on March 1st, 2009. She most recently served as
Director of the China Program at the Finnish Institute of International
Affairs (FIIA). She has lived and worked in the People’s Republic of
China for over 15 years, and has published six books on Chinese and East
Asian society.