China and the Environment Series: “Greening Chinese Overseas Investments: Push and Pull Factors”
Kelly Sims Gallagher, professor of energy and environmental policy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a policy advisor under President Barack Obama, will present “Greening Chinese Overseas Investments: Push and Pull Factors” as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series on China and the Environment sponsored by PEI and the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China.
Gallagher will explore how China’s international infrastructure investments through its Belt and Road Initiative — approximately 80% of which are in fossil energy — could be reformed to limit high-carbon investments and free developing countries from carbon-intensive modes of economic development. She also will present new research on the demand side that explains how and why developing countries demand finance and technology for coal.
Gallagher served in the second term of the Obama administration as a senior policy advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as Senior China Advisor in the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. State Department. She is director of the Climate Policy Lab and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School.
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China and the Environment Series: “Greening Chinese Overseas Investments: Push and Pull Factors”
Kelly Sims Gallagher, professor of energy and environmental policy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a policy advisor under President Barack Obama, will present “Greening Chinese Overseas Investments: Push and Pull Factors” as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series on China and the Environment sponsored by PEI and the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China.
Gallagher will explore how China’s international infrastructure investments through its Belt and Road Initiative — approximately 80% of which are in fossil energy — could be reformed to limit high-carbon investments and free developing countries from carbon-intensive modes of economic development. She also will present new research on the demand side that explains how and why developing countries demand finance and technology for coal.
Gallagher served in the second term of the Obama administration as a senior policy advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as Senior China Advisor in the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. State Department. She is director of the Climate Policy Lab and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School.
