Featured Speakers Include:

• Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, Director, Berkeley Lab
• John P. Holdren, Harvard University, President of AAAS, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize (for Pugwash)
• Amory Lovins, energy expert and CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
• Terry Tamminen, special advisor to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Speakers from China’s State Environmental Protection Administration, China National Petroleum Corporation, Peking University, Tsinghua University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Meteorological Administration, and the National Development and Reform Commission.
• Representatives of major international insurance, venture capital, and energy companies, including Royal Dutch Shell
• Inez Fung and Dan Kammen, co-directors UC Berkeley Institute for the Environment
• George Akerlof, UC Berkeley professor of economics; 2001 Nobel Prize in economics
• John Harte, UC Berkeley professor of Energy and Resources
• Mark Levine, director of the Energy and Environmental Technology Division, Berkeley Lab

The China-U.S. Climate Change Forum is organized by the Berkeley China Initiative, which is forging closer ties between U.C. Berkeley and China by bringing together key experts on important international and bilateral issues. Growing concern over climate change makes this topic an obvious choice for the first of this series of annual events.

The Forum is co-sponsored by Peking University's College of Environmental Sciences and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, International and Area Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Energy and Resources Group, and Berkeley Institute of the Environment. Financial sponsors include the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, the Energy Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation.