We met Professor Kiang, the Founding Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences, Beijing University at the World Future Council. The scientist was quite outspoken about the need of his country for solutions in energy supply and climate protection. The future of mobility however in his country lies in electric bikes, Kiang said. There are already 100 million electrical bikes in China. China is eager to tackle climate change, Kiang emphazises. But this issue is far to big to be handled by China alone, he added. Clean coal technologies are not available yet, Kiang said, to lower CO2 emissions drastically. To find the technical solutions it needs global efforts.

Back home Professor Kiang is responsible for bringing to China many of the world's leading experts on sustainable development, both to educate the next generation of leaders and to develop a working case study in the south of China. He is an internationally recognized expert on air quality, Professor Kiang retired from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) as an Institute Professor where he was responsible for its environment science, engineering and policy program, one of the top 5 in the USA. Mr. Kiang is currently working with others to establish a Center of Northeast Asia for Peace, Security and Sustainability initiated by Maurice Strong. He has also been very active in trying to get China and the US to cooperate on tackling climate change.