Professor Zhang Zhongxiang was invited to Participate in the New Energy Policy Meeting Held by International Energy Agency in Paris

　　Organized by the International Energy Agency, the high-level forum "Post Climate Change Summit, Policy of New Energy" was held on March 14, 2016 in Paris. As the only non-European speaker invited to address at the meeting, Distinguished Professor of CoME , Tianjin University, Zhang Zhongxiang made a statement on climate change and how new energy policy can take efforts in promoting the development of new energy.

　　Paul Simons, Deputy Director of the International Energy Agency delivered an opening speech on behalf of the organizer. Director of the IEA energy efficiency Department, Brian Motherway chaired the seminar on how to expand the heat utilization of renewable energy for household and industrial sector. Paolo Frankl, Director of the Department of Energy New Energy, moderated the discussion of the next-step action programs for auction of large renewable energy projects. Between these two events, Director of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, delivered a keynote speech, emphasizing the Paris climate agreement is only a beginning, energy transformation is far from over. In fact, the low-carbon, carbon-free energy transformation had encountered a new problem of low fossil fuel prices.

　　The third also the last seminar is about how to make climate policy the growth of promote renewable energy, and whether the market alone can achieve the energy transformation.

　　Director of Climate Action Division, European Commission, Mr. Jos Delbeke, Professor Robert Gross from Imperial College, Professor Zhang Zhongxiang from Tianjin University, Secretary-General of the Global Wind Energy Council, Mr. Steve Sawyer and Dr. Richard Baron, Principal Consultant of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Roundtable Discussion of Sustainable Development were invited to give successively statements to shared thinking and understanding of these issues with guests via lively discussions and exchanges. After the meeting, Dr. Baron also specially invited Professor Zhang Zhongxiang on issues in this respect made some in-depth exchanges.

　　During the meeting, 20-year’s friends of Professor Zhang Zhongxiang, Director of IEA, Mr. Birol and Mr. Delbeke, Director of the European Commission accepted the invitation to visit Tianjin University. Mr. Delbeke also gave a gift, the recently published EU Climate Policy Explained edited by him and Professor Peter Vis from Oxford University. In return, Professor Zhang Zhongxiang gave the Special Issue on Energy and Climate Economics and Policy for the 120th Anniversary of Tianjin University, in the topic of Energy and Climate Change Economics and Policy, which was included by the American Economic Association EconLit and published by Springer, Germany's international journal. Led by Mr. Delbeke, this special issue records a macroeconomic model which is a collection of world's top climate policy researchers working in the Division of the European Commission of the European Union take the lead in climate policy analysis of first-mover advantage in the article.

　　According to the IEA, there were more than 150 participants attended this meeting, they are from the European Commission, European Parliament, the OECD, the International Energy Agency, UNEP, the UN Economic Commission for Europe, the International Renewable Energy Agency, World Bank, International Finance Corporation agencies and other international organizations and institutes. Diplomatic, economic, development planning, energy, resources and foreign aid government departments of the United States, China, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Turkey, Belgium, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and other countries, China State grid, EDF, the French Total Group, Japan electricity, INSEAD international business school, Imperial College London and other enterprises, universities, think tanks, non-governmental organizations and advisory bodies. In the issued press release after the meeting of the IEA, besides the main contents of the meeting reports and their own leaders, among the more than 150 participants, it specifically mentioned the Director of European Commission Climate Action, Secretary-General of the Global Wind Energy Council and professors of Imperial College London and Tianjin University.