Yu Hongyuan is an associate professor and deputy director of the Department of International Organisations and Laws at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. He is also an honorary fellow of the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. From 1998 to 2000, he worked with the administrative centre for Chinaʼs Agenda 21 at the ministry of science and technology. Yu Hongyuan is the author of numerous publications, including most recently “Environmental Change and the Asia Pacific”, in Global Change, Peace and Security.