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WORKSHOPS AND FORUMS
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Workshop
Low carbon cities and sustainability China-Australia dialogue
Melbourne, 14 December 2012National Development and Reform
Commission (NDRC) Delegation visit to Centre for Strategic Economic
Studies, Victoria University
PROGRAM
- Welcome欢迎代表团
Professor Bruce Rasmussen, Director, Centre for Strategic Economic
Studies, Victoria University
Bruce Rasmussen维多利亚大学战略经济研究中心主任、教授
Madame Sun Cuihua, Deputy Director General, Department of Climate
Change, NDRC
- Structural rebalancing of the economy: Implications for energy
and emissions
中国经济结构的调整对能源与二氧化碳排放的影响
Professor Peter Sheehan, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies,
Victoria University
Peter Sheehan维多利亚大学战略经济研究中心原主任、教授
- Low carbon cities, liveability and sustainability 低碳城市、宜居化和可持续发展
Professor Roger Jones: Uncertainty and risk in responding to climate
change adaptation
气候变化适应对不确定性和风险的影响
Dr Brantley Liddle: Urbanisation, transport, energy and emissions
城市化、交通、能源和温室气体排放
Dr Roger Bodman: Narrowing the uncertainty in climate change
scenarios
减少气候变化的不确定性分析
Dr Gayathri Mekala: Urban green infrastructure and liveability:
implications for planning & policy
绿色城市基础设施和宜居化对规划的影响和政策
Dr Alex English: Summary of the workshop outcome and low carbon
cities project
低碳城市研讨会和研究项目的总结
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all presentations (pdf 3.55 MB).
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Forum
Liveability and the low carbon city: China’s plans and Melbourne’s
experience
Melbourne, 10 December 2012Over half of the world’s
population now live in cities. While cities contribute 70% of global
emissions, they are also centres of innovative designs and solutions to
the serious global resource and climate constraints. Many countries,
including China and Australia, are seeking to create low carbon liveable
cities. Melbourne’s recent designation as the ‘world’s most liveable
city’ has led to interest from many Chinese officials and academics in
its urban experience. But Melbourne also has much to learn from China’s
ambitious efforts to improve the environment and liveability of its
rapidly growing cities.
This forum brought together Australian and Chinese experts to discuss
the importance of cities in controlling climate change and the scale and
variety of policy experiments. It focused on the positive and negative
lessons to be drawn from Melbourne’s experience, and their relevance to
China.
PROGRAM
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4.30 pm Welcome, Professor
Peter Dawkins, Vice Chancellor, Victoria University
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4.40 pm
Cities and Climate Change, in China and Globally, Dr Jiang Kejun,
National Development and Reform Commission, China; IPCC lead author
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5.10pm
Melbourne and the Chinese Experiments: Lessons and Warnings, Dr
Alex English, Research Fellow, Victoria University
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5.30 pm Panel Chair
Mr George Pappas, Chancellor, Victoria University; Chairman,
Committee for Melbourne
Professor Xu He, Nankai University, Tianjin
Mr Kevin Begg, Principal Urban Designer, GHD Melbourne
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6.00 pm Questions and answers
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6.30 pm Close Professor Peter
Dawkins, Vice Chancellor
Keynote speaker, Dr Jiang Kejun, is one of China’s leading energy and
climate experts and is based in the China’s National Development and
Reform Commission’s Energy Research Institute. Mr George Pappas, as
Chair of the Committee for Melbourne with a strong interest in the
future of Melbourne, will chair the Panel session.
The forum arises out of a visit to Victoria University by 18 senior
officials and academics from the Chinese Government, from Tianjin/Binhai
and from the Chinese Academies of Science and of Urban Planning and
Design with the support of Australia’s Department of Climate Change and
Energy Efficiency (DCCEE).
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Workshop on public finance in Australia and China
Melbourne, 1 December 2012This workshop,
jointly organised by Victoria University and the Central University of
Finance and Economics (CUFE) (Beijing), addressed public finance reform,
central-local fiscal allocations and debt and optimising tax governance
in China and Australia.
The workshop began with a public seminar presentation by Professor Ma
Haitao
Thinking on China’s Taxation System Reform and Development (PDF 144 KB)
This seminar was followed by CUFE/VU workshop presentations:
Public finance reform in Australia and China, Professor Peter Sheehan,
VU
Sub-national government debt management in Australia, Dr Bruce
Rasmussen, VU
Current situation and reasons for China’s local government debt,
Professor Wen Laicheng, CUFE
Allocating taxes among levels of government and horizontal and vertical
fiscal equalization, Professor Bhajan Grewal, VU
Central and local government fiscal relations in China: Central transfer
payments and property tax reform, Professor Ren Qiang, CUFE
Property tax in Australia: Councils, revenue, property based taxes and
the fiscal equalisation process, Mr Colin Morrison, Victorian Government
Optimising the allocation of local tax authorisation in China, Associate
Professor Jiang Aihua
International accounting standards: Adoption, use and financial
reporting; The characteristics of Australia’s Auditor General: Ensuring
independence and accountability, Professor Colin Clark, VU
Urbanisation and local government fiscal risk in China (Research
proposal), Miss Zhang Zhang, CUFE
CUFE delegates:
• Professor Ma Haitao, Dean, School of Public Finance (head of the
delegation)
• Professor Wen Laicheng, School of Public Finance
• Associate Professor Ren Qiang, Vice Dean, School of Public Finance
• Associate Professor Jiang Aihua, Vice Dean, School of Public Finance
Local participants:
• Professor Peter Sheehan, Director, Centre for Strategic Economic
Studies, Victoria University
• Professor Colin Clark, Accountant Professor, VU
• Professor Bhajan Grewal, CSES, VU
• Dr Bruce Rasmussen, Deputy Director, CSES, VU
• Mr Colin Morrison, Director, Governance & Funding Programs, Local
Government, Victoria Department of Planning & Community Development;
Executive Officer, Victoria Grants Commission
• Miss Zhang Zhang, CUFE PhD student and Visiting Researcher, CSES, VU
• Dr Alex English, CSES, VU
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For more information contact:
margarita.kumnick@vu.edu.au |
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