Dennis Dong ‘18

Summer 2016

Chinese Path Toward Environmentalism: From Chinese NGO Perspective

As a second-year double majoring in Environmental Studies and Biology, Dennis will spend two months interning at the world’s leading conservation organization, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Shenzhen, China. Dennis explains his motivation for his internship: “During my years in China, I lived in Hohhot (near Mongolia) and Shenzhen (near Hong Kong) that embody two extreme examples of environmental consciousness. The former has been the main site for heavy industrialization of socialist development since 1960 and faced tremendous degradation with life-threatening pollutions. The latter, where I lived as a teenager, is a very young city built after the Economic Reform in 1980s, but has been at the vanguard of many successful environmental advancements … I am enthralled and wonder how China is dealing with its environmental issues given the various challenges and its recent COP21 commitment.” Dennis will be involved in many fascinating activities including working with urban planners to implement the multi-faceted Carbon Evaluation System. We look forward to hearing about what he discovers about the environmental issues in China.