Climate Challenge: can China lead the way? CGLG hosted event with guest speaker Dr Kim Vender

A look at China's evolving role of global climate leadership, from international negotiations to domestic debates on responsibility and development.

Dr Kim Vender is a social science researcher with a special interest in foreign policy and international relations, climate change and biodiversity, and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to the multiple crises we are facing. She is currently an Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for EU-Asia Connectivity (CEAC) at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

She conducted her PhD research on China's role in global climate change governance with a special focus on climate leadership. Kim's thesis, Bound to lead? China's role in climate change governance between perception, conception, and behaviour, was supervised by Professor Juliet Kaarbo and Associate Professor Oliver Turner.

She is currently working on a NbS project for the Social Responsibility and Sustainability department and as a tutor in the School of Social and Political Science, connecting the local with the global.