Monday, August 16, 2010

Chinese Environmental Group to Visit Indiana

Members of the China Environment Forum will be in northwest Indiana tomorrow (17 August), reports Inside INdiana Business. They will discuss initiatives to highlight environmental improvements in the region. The information gathered is expected to help the delegation deal with severe water pollution in China's Lake Tai.

The Northwest Indiana Forum and Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission in cooperation with the Indiana Wildlife Federation are hosting the gathering, which includes a Lake Michigan shoreline boat tour and afternoon environmental discussion.

China Environment Forum Background: In 2009 the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership awarded China Environment Forum (CEF) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC) and its partners—the Institute of Developing Economies (Japan) and the Center for Environmental Management and Policy at Nanjing University (China)—a grant to support a project that aims to build an American, Japanese and Chinese business, non-governmental units, research and government coalition to jointly explore multi-stakeholder strategies to address pollution problems in Lake Tai (China).

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