EVENTS

Abstract

The conflicting demand for water, food, and energy is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. Global Choke Point, a collaboration between the Wilson Center and Circle of Blue, explores the peril and promise of this nexus with frontline reporting, data, and policy dialogues.  Dr. Jennifer Turner, Director of the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum, will anchor her talk on the findings from China where 20 percent of the country’s annual water use goes to produce energy, chemicals, and gas from coal. Choke Point: China reporting also raised sobering questions on the large and overlooked energy footprint of water in China. Over 20 multimedia reports on China’s choke points have attracted considerable interest from policymakers, researchers, and NGOs in and outside China, catalyzing new research, policy discussions, and programming. Dr. Turner will contrast these natural resources stresses in China with those emerging in the United States and India. 

About the Speaker

Jennifer Turner has been the director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for 14 years where she creates meetings, exchanges and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, particularly on water, energy and climate challenges and US-China clean energy cooperation. Jennifer also serves as editor of the Wilson Center’s journal, the China Environment Series. Her research focuses heavily on water-energy nexus issues and environmental activism in China.