Dean's Roundtable: China, Climate Change Superpower and the Clean Technology Revolution
Dean's Roundtable
Margret Kim
China Program Director and Special Advisor
California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board
Robert E. Jones
President
Ecolinx Foundation
May 08, 2008
8 a.m.
Location: UC San Diego Faculty Club
Open to: Invited Guest, DRT Member
Margret Jung-Jin Kim is Senior International Climate Change Counsel and China Program Director for the Air Resources Board and the California Environmental Protection Agency. Ms. Kim currently serves as Chair of the International Energy & Resources Transaction Committee of the American Bar Association’s Natural Resources & Environment Section. She is a member of the Commission on Environmental Law of IUCN (World Conservation Union) and was appointed to its Specialist Groups on Environmental Governance and Energy & Climate Change. She was visiting professor and Fulbright Senior Specialist at Beijing University Law and visiting scholar at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy. Margret is also a co-founder of Ecolinx Foundation (a California non-profit to assist China transition to a more sustainable energy and environmental future).
Robert E. Jones is President and co-founder of the EcoLinx Foundation and serves on the Board of the South Bay Business Environmental Coalition, is a founding member of the California Sustainable Business Council and is on the Board of Trustees of the World Affairs Council of Sacramento. He is also Chairman of the Clean Tech Forum at the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing and Strategic Advisor to the Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy. Robert has embraced the concept of environmentally and socially responsible cause marketing in his eco-products company, by using recycled and other materials from sustainable sources in the rainforest and providing employment for the physically and mentally challenged. His interest in the environment has taken him to most of the countries of East and South East Asia (and many in the Pacific) where he witnessed first-hand, the degradation of the environment, particularly the destruction of tropical rainforests.
Registration is required for this event.
This presentation is part of the Sempra Energy Environmental Speaker Series.
