Addressing Climate Change: Korea's Green-Growth Policy

Open to the Public

Light lunch will be provided.

Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 Time: 01:00pm - 02:30pm Location: Pound Hall 213

Sep. 18, 2009: a visitor tours the Experience Green Growth Center in downtown Seoul, ROK. ROK President Lee Myung-bak sees a crisis coming for Asia's 4th-largest economy, one of the world's biggest GHG polluters, amid calls to curb climate change.

About

Light lunch will be provided.

Suh-Yong Chung is Associate Professor in the Division of International Studies at Korea University and is an international expert on sustainable development law and policy. His research covers various emerging issues in environment and sustainable development, including climate change both at global and regional levels. His most recent work focuses on internationalization of the Green Growth policy, post-2012 climate change regime formation, and regional environmental institution-building in Northeast Asia.

Co-Sponsored by Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School; Harvard Project on Climate Agreements; and Korea Institute, Harvard University