"Climate Change and Blue Sky Action"

Climate change and ecological civilization has been a fundamental issue for sustainable development of nearly all the countries in the world. Greenhouse species emissions and air pollution caused by PM2.5 and ozone are big global challenges. The "blue sky" action plan launched in 2018 by Chinese government, which calls explicitly for large reductions in total emissions of major pollutants in coordination with reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases, has made remarkable progresses and changes. Scientists and engineers in the world are actively responding to climate change and promote the construction of a beautiful earth with blue sky, green land, and clean water.

We sincerely invite you to Panel A2 "Climate Change and Blue Sky Action" of IFEE 2020, listening to the enlightening presentations by distinguished scholars and discussing how to play the important role of Environmental Engineering Education in sustainable development!

Panel Chair:

WANG Can（Chair, Department of Environmental Planning and Management, School of Environment, Tsinghua University）

Panel Speakers:

Alaa ASHMAWY (President, the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies; Member, the Executive Committee of the Global Engineering Deans Council)

(20:10-20:30)

HAO Jiming (Member of CAE; Foreign Member of NAE; Professor at School of Environment, Tsinghua University)

(20:30-20:50)

Anette KOLMOS (Director, Aalborg Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Science & Sustainability)

(20:50-21:10)

LI Zheng (Executive Vice President, the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development; Director, the Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy, Tsinghua University)

(21:10-21:30)

Norman FORTENBERRY (Executive Director, the American Society for Engineering Education)

(21:30-21:50)

Ishwar K. PURI (Dean, the Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, Canada; Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow)

(21:50-22:10)

Discussion(22:10-23:00)

About the Organizer​

School of Environment (SOE), Tsinghua University originated from the Department of Civil Engineering founded in 1928. Under the leadership of Mr. TAO Baokai, the founder of environmental engineering discipline in China, successive generations of SOE people have been endeavoring to develop SOE to be a nationally and internationally recognized institution for high-end talent cultivation and cutting-edge scientific research. SOE is placed No. 9 by the QS World University Subject Rankings 2020. 

SOE aims to establish a future-oriented environmental discipline system, nurture interdisciplinary and innovative talents, create a sound academic atmosphere of free exploration, improve interdisciplinary integration and innovation ability, and generate brand-new, internationally influential knowledge, technologies and methods, thus helping solve regional and global environmental problems, and rank SOE among the top environmental institutions across the globe.

Ecological civilization has been a major challenge for sustainable development at current stage. China has launched a battle for blue sky, clear water and clean soil. Looking forward, SOE will shoulder its responsibility and march forward firmly.