On December 6th, 2016, A. Prof. Xiao-ling Zhang from City University of Hong Kong, gave a report entitled “Climate governance and carbon-intensive industry: a political economic view?” at CEEP-BIT. The report was hosted by A. Prof. Yi-xiang Zhang, some other teachers and students attended the report.
　　A. Prof. Xiao-ling Zhang began his report with some environmental problems. This report investigates whether a theoretical framework offer possibilities to restructure to a sustainable, environmental-friendly socio-economic system, which can further contribute to the climate governance at the industry level. The framework is combined with pro-growth machine, carbon lock-in theory and Institutional Industry Complex (IIC) thesis, which were therefore applied to explain the pro-growth coalition of carbon-intensive industry in China. Consensus building of the research framework is based upon a case study of the Petro-Chemical state owned enterprises in China. Drawing upon the in-depth interviews with the stakeholders in the IIC system, the research discovered the pro-growth coalition of Petro-Chemical industry in China. This paper finally concludes by constructing a pro-growth coalition that could serve as a program to unlock the path-dependence of petrochemical industry and foster the anti-coalition mechanism, which can act as proactive approaches for climate governance.
　　A. Prof. Zhang now is the tenured associated professor of City University of Hong Kong, and subject editor of “Journal of cleaner production”. She is interested in environmental studies, energy economics and management, Competitiveness for real estate developers/home builders. She has published more than 100 SCI/SSCI papers.

　　After this lecture, teachers and students from CEEP-BIT had a heated discussion with A. Prof. Zhang and had a picture taken together.