Mr. He Kebin
Professor of the School of Environment, and Dean of the Institute for Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
He Kebin is a Professor of the School of Environment and Dean of the Institute for Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University, and an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He serves as Deputy Director of China’s National Committee of Experts on Ecology and Environment, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, and Vice President of the China Association of Environmental Protection Industry. He has long been devoted to the study of complex air pollution, especially PM2.5. He has carried out in‑depth research on the identification of atmospheric particulate matter and complex pollution, the emission characteristics of complex sources and the co‑ordinated control of air pollutants and greenhouse gases. In the fields of zero-waste city development and solid waste management, he submitted a proposal in 2017 titled “Promoting the Resource Recovery of Solid Waste and Building a ‘Zero-waste Society’ through Pilot ‘Zero-waste Cities’”, together with several academicians from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. This proposal directly catalysed the launch and implementation of the “Zero-waste City” Pilot Program nationwide.
Moderator:
Mr. Kou Kun Pang
Associate Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Macau
Speakers:
Mr. Guo Yijun
Director General of the Department of Solid Wastes and Chemicals, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, People’s Republic of China
Mr. Zhang Jianyu
Deputy Secretary General and Chief Development Officer of BRIGC, Executive Director of the BRI Green Development Institute
Mr. Jorge Arbache
Professor of Economics, University of Brasília, and Senior Fellow of the Climate and Society Institute
Moderator:
Speakers:
Mr. José Carlos Pimenta Machado
President of the Management Board, Portuguese Environment Agency
Mr. Zhou Yuansong
Deputy Director of the Solid Waste and Chemicals Division, Beijing Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau
Mr. Kwan Yau Kit, Michael
Senior Environmental Protection Officer (Waste Reduction and Community Recycling) of the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department
Mr. Tan Xiao
Associate Director of the South China Environmental Forensic Center, South China Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, People’s Republic of China
Mr. Zhang Mingyang
Director of the Solid Waste Pollution Prevention and Control Technologies Laboratory, South China Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, People’s Republic of China
