Pan Jiahua
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Research Centre for Sustainable Development
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Jiahua Pan, Research Centre for Sustainable Development (RCSD) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

Currently executive director of CASS – RCSD and professor of economics at CASS Graduate School. He received his PhD at Cambridge University in 1992. His research interests cover economic and social dimensions of sustainable development, energy and development, climate policy, and economics of the environment and natural resources.

He worked for the UNDP Beijing Office as a Senior Programme Officer and advisor on environment and development and for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group III on Mitigation as a senior economist in the Technical Support Unit and a co-editor of IPCC Working Group III Third Assessment Report Climate Change 2001: Mitigation; a lead author on sustainable development and mitigation in the IPCC WG III 4th Assessment (AR4, 2003-2007) and a UNFCCC expert reviewer on national communications. His recent research projects include CDM policy in China, Human development with low emissions as a scenario for post-Kyoto, Ecological planning and assessment of social and economic development in Zhejiang Province, Emissions demand for development goals in China, and South-North Dialogue on Equity in the Greenhouse.

Author of 150 papers and articles in academic journals, magazines and newspapers, including Economic Analysis of Alternative Approaches to Sustainable Development (Remin University Press, 1997), The Language of Trade (translated from English, China Economics Press, 1999), Climate Change 2001: Mitigation (lead author and co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2001), Emissions rights and their transferability: equity concerns over climate change mitigation, (International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2003), South-North dialogue on equity in the greenhouse. A proposal for an adequate and equitable global climate agreement (co-author, Eschborn, GTZ, 2004). Meeting human basic needs with low emissions, IDS (Institute of Development Studies, Sussex) Bulletin on Climate Change and Development, July 2004, volume 35, number 3).