Xin Zhou

Xin Zhou is Leader of the Strategic and Quantitative Analysis Centre at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). She has more than 25 years of experience in the field of environmental policy analysis. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies. She is now leading a couple of research projects in the areas of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) interlinkages analysis, climate policy assessment, integrated water resource management and green jobs assessment, etc.

Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Implementing 25 Solutions to Help 1 Billion People Breathe Cleaner Air by 2030 (English)

This presentation gave an overview the top 25 measures that could significantly improve air quality and public health by the year 2030. It further underscored that the implementation of these measures requires more knowledge of what enables success in particular sectors and contexts, governance arrangements that facilitate coordination across different government agencies and non-state actors.

Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Implementing 25 Solutions to Help 1 Billion People Breathe Cleaner Air by 2030 (Mongolian)

This presentation gave an overview the top 25 measures that could significantly improve air quality and public health by the year 2030. It further underscored that the implementation of these measures requires more knowledge of what enables success in particular sectors and contexts, governance arrangements that facilitate coordination across different government agencies and non-state actors.

Yuqing Yu

Dr. Yu joined IGES in April 2013 and is a Senior Policy Researcher and task manager in the Climate and Energy Area. Her current research has focused on climate finance, in particular the governance mechanism, the institutional arrangements, and the effectiveness of climate finance. Before IGES, she worked for Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) in its San Francisco and Beijing offices, where her research focused on China’s climate- and energy-related policies. She completed her undergraduate study at Fudan University in China and received an MS from Cornell University and a Ph.D.

Asia Leadership Program 2015: Executive Level Session

Asia's leaders talked about finance, transport, and the environment, among other concerns at the Asia Leadership Program.



The third annual program was held in Tokyo, Japan with Institute for Global Environmental Strategies as the partner organization. About 14 ministers, vice-ministers, and secretaries in the areas of transport and infrastructure, finance, environment and conservation, forestry, and executive planning participated in the executive level session of the program.