CEF and the Environmental Film Festival present a screening of the...
CEF is proud to host a documentary by the Chinese filmmaker Jian Yi. His film What's for Dinner? provides a unique look into the rapidly growing consumption of meat and other animal products in China....
View ArticleSurf and Turf: Environmental and Social Impacts of China’s Growing Seafood...
Increasingly prosperous consumers in China are consuming fewer food grains and demanding more dairy, fruits, vegetables, meat, and seafood. These protein-rich diets have brought many important health...
View ArticleChoke Point: India -- A Wilson Center-Circle of Blue Joint Initiative
On April 2, Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center present the findings of their Choke Point: India initiative, an exploration into the water-energy-food confrontations in the world’s second most...
View ArticleIs Foreign Policy Bipartisanship Alive on Capitol Hill?
With today's Congress sharply divided along partisan lines, are U.S. lawmakers still capable of reaching across the aisle on foreign policy? This public program will examine the congressional politics...
View ArticleEnvironmental Pressures on China’s Changing Cities and Countryside
China’s urban and rural areas are rapidly changing and are facing dire resource constraints. Cities and countryside both contribute to and are vulnerable to water pollution and scarcity, particularly...
View ArticleBook Talk with Kelly Sims Gallagher: The Globalization of Clean Energy...
Energy-related goods account for more than ten percent of international trade, yet policy makers, academics, and the business community perceive barriers to the global diffusion of these emerging...
View ArticleChina and Antarctica
Evaluating China as an Antarctic StateProfessor Anne-Marie BradyEditor-in-chief The Polar JournalWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars/Department of Political Science/Gateway...
View ArticleArctic 2014: Who Gets a Voice and Why It Matters
Tensions over security, access, and environmental impacts in the Arctic are rising. While members of the Arctic Council (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United States)...
View ArticleDawn of the Smart City? Perspectives From New York, Ahmedabad, São Paulo, and...
Rapid growth and environmental change are creating new challenges for urban areas around the world. By 2050, as many as 7 out of 10 people on Earth will live in cities, with the vast majority of growth...
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DC Chinese Film Festival featuring COP SHOP II (差馆II)
Part 1: COP SHOP II (差馆II)12pm - 1:30pm, September 5Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center
View ArticlePlatforms, Pipelines & Policies: Energy & Security in China and Asia Pacific
China’s search for expanded, more reliable, and more sustainable sources of energy to fuel its development has become a major driver of China’s foreign relations. Beijing’s recent agreement to purchase...
View ArticleDealing with a Toxic Legacy: Soil Pollution in China
The convergence of toxic waste and agriculture has resulted in a soil contamination crisis in China—nearly one-fifth of China’s farmland is polluted. For example, in Hunan Province, a center of...
View ArticleChina’s Quest for Safe + Secure Food: Boon for U.S. Business?
China is facing a serious food dilemma. Despite being one of the largest grain producers in the world, over the past decade the country has become a leading grain importer. Indeed, the rising demand...
View ArticleChinese Companies in Latin America: Economic and Strategic Dimensions
In July 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, and Cuba—his second trip to the region since taking office in 2013. He offered tens of billions of dollars in new loans...
View ArticleCapping China’s Coal
In the U.S.-China climate and energy cooperation deal signed in Beijing last week, China’s president Xi Jinping committed to capping CO2 emissions by 2030. However, despite nearly a decade of...
View ArticleThe Ripple Effect of Dams and Water Transfer Projects in China
In China no infrastructure project is too big. China has been accelerating dam construction to meet the country’s electricity hunger and calls for low-carbon power. The South-North Water Transfer...
View ArticleFrom Farm to Roundtable: Innovative Partnerships to Improve China's Meat...
The first amendments to China's Food Safety Law are likely to pass this year and they will bring new tracking and training systems, stricter health standards, and higher penalties for illegal...
View ArticleFilm screening: "Cotton Road" for Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s...
Americans consume nearly 20 billion new items of clothing each year. However, few of us know how our clothes are made, much less who produces them. Cotton Road follows the commodity of cotton from...
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Screening and Discussion of "Under the Dome"
How Was This Allowed to Happen?China’s Pollution Catastrophe and the Unlikely Film That is Forcing the Nation to Pay AttentionDirections: Directions to the Wilson Center
View ArticleChina's Foreign Policy in a New Era of Sino-Latin American Relations
China has become a major economic and political force in Latin America. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made two trips to the region in 13 months. At a Beijing meeting of the Community of Latin American...
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