

Sustainable Finance and Global Leadership
On June 22nd, JUCCCE hosted a dialogue on Sustainable Finance and Global leadership between our chair, Peggy Liu, and Leslie Maasdorp, as part of the PWC You Plus Leadership Series. Over 100 attendees came to witness a world-leading sustainable investor and a top environmentalist discuss a variety of environmental and social issues relevant to China and the entire world. Leslie Maasdorp is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the New Development Bank, a new bank inte


Catching the Sun Screens in Shanghai
Catching the Sun screened in Shanghai to an audience of over 80 energy and environment enthusiasts. The film demonstrates the opportunities and challenges facing countries moving towards clean energy. It features multiple interviews with workers and entrepreneurs in the United States and China who are involved in solar energy initiatives, including JUCCCE Chairperson, Peggy Liu. #CatchingtheSun #Environment #CleanEnergy #SolarEnergy

JUCCCE Chairperson One of 9 Shanghai Personalities Profiled on Canadian TV
Sophie Fouron from Canada’s TV5 Ports d’Attaches spoke with Peggy Liu as part of a series on interesting personalities around the world. French “Peggy Liu a une passion dans la vie: celle de créer un monde meilleur. Pour ce faire, cette diplômée en sciences informatiques et génie électrique du MIT et du Harvard Kennedy School of Government a fondé JUCCCE, un organisme à but non-lucratif spécialisé dans le domaine de la durabilité. Cette Sino-Américaine a non seulement réussi

Shanghai Daily: NGO Trains Officials and State Business Chiefs
Shanghai Daily spoke with JUCCCE Chairperson Peggy Liu about training over 550 government officials and executives in topics such as municipal waste management, water treatment and eco-city development. Peggy Liu, an American-born Chinese whose family is from Taiwan, left her high-powered position in Silicon Valley to focus on clean energy in China. Liu, who lives in Shanghai, cofounded the NGO Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy in 2007. She was named “Hero of the Env


Peggy speaks at Girl Scouts' World Thinking Day
The Girl Scouts’ World Thinking Day was held in Shanghai on February 29th. JUCCCE Chairperson Peggy Liu spoke to 150 girl scouts and their parents about how they each could make a difference in the world. As a former girl scout, she presented a message on JUCCCE’s clean energy mission interweaved with humorous interjections and stores. “When I showed them some of my fashion spreads and said don't believe all the press you read and no-one actually looks like they do in fashion


Peggy Liu Visits the Hotchkiss School
On October 6th 2009, Peggy presented at Hotchkiss School on China’s environmental situation and what JUCCCE is doing to combat this. Hotchkiss school is one of the top high schools in America and our presentation was eye-opening to both students and staff members. Peggy’s talk opened with staggering statistics uncovering the depth of the pollution and energy problems China and the world faces. She urged her audience to change their consumption habits and highlighted the actio

The End is Nigh
Note: The following post was taken from China Daily. Peggy Liu said she believes the world may have only five years to avert an environmental disaster. The internationally renowned environmental champion, who now heads a joint Sino-American clean energy body, said that time is running out fast. "The scary thing is that five years is just the blink of an eye in energy terms. Two years ago, we perhaps thought we had 10 years," she said in an interview in Beijing last week. Liu'
JUCCCE Kick-Off Session
After its founding, JUCCCE hosted an official kick-off session spanning July 18 and 19. China and U.S. energy sector leaders gathered for our launch and together, we discussed action plans and goals clean energy development in China. The two-day series of discussions during our event brought together for the first time a network of cross-border leaders from government, industry, the investment community, research institutes, media and other groups. Speakers included Jiang Zha


Founding of JUCCCE
JUCCCE was founded after the MIT Forum on the Future of Energy in China, the first public dialogue on clean energy between US and Chinese government officials. The range of participants extended from key government advocates such as Mark Ginsberg of US Department of Energy, Steve Papermaster of US President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Xu Dingming of NDRC, and Jiang Zhaozu of NDRC investment Association Committee, to top professors from MIT, Tsinghua, and