Notice on the 157th Lushan Lecture: Opportunities and Challenges for Global Transformation to Carbon Neutrality
2023-03-23
Subject: Opportunities and Challenges for Global Transformation to Carbon Neutrality
Speaker: Professor Guan Dabo
Time: Delayed for some reason
Location: Conference Room (1) of Xiangjiang Laboratory, 6th Floor, Economic Management Complex
Speaker’s Profile:
Guan Dabo, funded by the Overseas High-level Talent Project, works in the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, and is a professor of the Global Change Economics Group and an academician of The British Academy. Over the years, he has devoted himself to studying the causes, impacts and countermeasures of climate change, analyzing the driving factors of greenhouse gas emissions and exploring the global and national sustainable development path of low carbon and low resource consumption. His research results in combining natural science and social science have been generally recognized by academic circles. Guan Dabo, as the leading expert, organized and coordinated the flagship international cooperation plan on climate change and biodiversity between China and Europe of the Ministry of Science and Technology during the 14th Five-Year Plan. Carbon Accounting Database of China team led by Guan Dabo effectively supported the development and compilation of the Carbon Neutral Technology Roadmap of China, of which the research results were adopted by ministries and commissions and instructed by important national leaders for many times. Guan Dabo has published more than 60 pioneering academic papers in Nature and its sub-journals. He has won the Cozzarelli Prize issued by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Philip Leverhulme Prize, Newton Senior Scholar, and Award of 100 Most Influential Papers in World. He has been selected as the leading author of the fifth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's highly cited scientist of Clarivate from 2018 to 2022, and the world's top 1,000 climate scientists (ranking 9th in Chinese scientists).
