 | Members of a Chinese delegation visited the campus recently to participate in an executive development program at F&ES. Professor Thomas Graedel (far left) joins in a toast at a welcoming reception held in their honor. |
A delegation of 21 high-level officials from China was on campus July 11-22 participating in an executive program developed for them by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES).
The delegation -- consisting of directors-general at the Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) and administrators of provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs) -- came from many different regions of China.
The course marks the first time SEPA has partnered with a non-governmental organization. According to Jianxin Li, SEPA director-general and leader of the delegation, the group wanted to see how environmental problems were being handled in the United States and to learn state-of-the-art theory and practice.
The 12-day program, chaired by Professors Marian Chertow and Daniel Esty from F&ES, was taught by both Yale faculty members and invited experts. The principal focus areas of the course were industrial ecology, law and policy, and environmental management -- areas of special importance to SEPA's goal of helping China achieve more sustainable economic growth.
Linda Koch Lorimer, vice president and secretary of Yale, hosted a reception in honor of the delegation on July 15. She called on several faculty working cooperatively with China to describe their program efforts. Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, addressed the group members at the welcome banquet given in their honor by F&ES.
The SEPA Executive Program is the latest China-related F&ES program. F&ES faculty have taught recently in executive programs in Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing. In May, the Environment and Sustainable Development Leadership Program began a three-year program for jointly sponsored short courses between Yale and Tshingua University.
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