Re-estimating the Stranded Assets of the Coal Power Sector in China: Is It Too Big To Fail?

Date: 

Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am

Location: 

Zoom - Registration Required

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Teng Fei, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy at Tsinghua University

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Teng Fei received his bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 1998, and his MSc and Ph.D in Management Science in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in 2003. Teng finished his postdoctoral research in France in 2004. He is now an associate professor in the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy at Tsinghua University. He is also a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, Working Group III.  He is lead author on the Second and Third China National Assessment Report on Climate Change, and a member of the drafting team for several key national documents, including the National Plan on Climate Change and the White Paper on Climate Change. He served as an advisory expert for China’s negotiation team under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for many years. He is also member of BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) expert group in BASIC  ministerial meetings since 2011. His research interests include climate policy, international climate regimes, consumer behavior in energy consumption, and energy modeling.

Sponsored by Harvard-China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.