Karl Hallding heads Stockholm Environment Institute’s China Cluster and has extensive experience from international co-operation with China on environment and sustainable development since the mid 1980s.

He was the main author of UNDP’s China Human Development Report 2002 – Making Green Development a Choice and participated in the expert team behind the recent OECD Environmental Performance Review of China where he was responsible for drafting the chapter on Environmental – Social Interface.

Karl is a graduate from Stockholm University’s East Asia Progamme (1990) and has a bachelor’s degree in engineering (1980). Before joining SEI in 2000 he had a two year posting as environmental advisor with the Swedish Embassy in Beijing.

From 1990 to 1998 he was responsible for China co-operation at the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.

Publications

• A Balancing Act: China's role in Climate Change (2009)

• China’s greenhouse challenge (2009)

• China’s Climate- and Energy-security Dilemma: Shaping a New Path of Economic Growth (2009)

• Kinas position inför klimatförhandlingarna (2009)

• Going Clean: The Economics of China’s Low‐carbon Development (2009)

• Energislukare i knipa - Kinas position inför klimatförhandlingarna (2009)

• Towards a low carbon economy in China (2008)

• Kina – Medspelare eller motspelare i klimatkampen? (2008)

• Environmental-Social Interface (2007)

• Den hungriga tillväxtmaskinen – Sanningar och paradoxer om Kinas utveckling, miljö- och naturresursproblem (2007)

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Projects

• China: economics of climate change

  
  

• China: climate and energy politics

  
  

• The Copenhagen Theatre: China, US and the formation of the BASIC alliance

  
  

• China Climate Security Initiative

  
  

• Climate and energy

  
  

• Beyond Fossil - Re-fabricating Urbanity

  
  

• Sustainable urbanisation in China