CAS Researcher Elected Commissioner of GCAN
Fu Bojie, a scientist from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS was elected the commissioner of the scientific commission of the Global Climate Adaptation Network in Asia-Pacific Region, at the organization's annual consultative meeting in January.
The multifunctional network was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other UN organizations and experts. It will mobilize the resources of relevant regional centers and ground networks to enhance key scientific, technical and most importantly institutional capacity for adaptation in a synergic and coherent manner.
The Network will also help meet the increasing demands for climate change adaptation with the growing supplies of the world's best knowledge and technology from existing facilities and institutions.
Fu, also director-general of the Bureau of Science and Technology for Resources and Environment, CAS wrote about the environmental challenges China faces and its strategies to cope with them in an editorial in Science on August 1, 2008.
"For decades, rapid economic growth and the improvement of human living status for the world's biggest population have been accomplished at the expense of environmental integrity. Now, human welfare, rather than living status, should be a priority in developing a strategy for a sustainable China," Fu wrote in his article, titled"Blue Skies for China".
