Where: Main Auditorium, Building 20
Description
His film "Hope in a Changing Climate," broadcast on BBC World, demonstrates that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, to restore ecosystem functions in areas where they have been lost.;;Following the screening of the movie, John Dennis Liu will give a short presentation on topics linked to Climate Change, and participate in an interactive discussion will take place with the audience.
John Dennis Liu
John D Liu is an American who has lived in China for more than 30 years. Mr Liu helped to open the CBS News bureau in Beijing at the time of normalisation of relations between the U.S. and China. He also worked as a photo-journalist for Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI Italian Television) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF German Television). Since the mid-1990's Mr Liu has concentrated on ecological film making and has written, produced and directed films on Grasslands, Deserts, Wetlands, Oceans, Rivers, Urban Development, Atmosphere, Forests, Endangered Animals, Poverty Reductions primarily for EARTH REPORT and LIFE series on the BBC World. In 2003, Mr Liu wrote, produced and directed "Jane Goodall - China Diary" for National Geographic. In 2009, Mr. Liu presented “Hope in a Changing Climate” a film that has won many awards, been shown around the world and translated into several languages. Since 1997 Mr Liu has directed the Environmental Education Media Project, (EEMP) which uses television to deliver ecological, sustainable development and public health messages in China and other countries. Mr Liu was also the driving force in the creation and development of the China Environment and Sustainable Development Reference Centre, the China HIV/AIDS Information Network (CHAIN), and the Environmental Education Media Project (Mongolia). Mr Liu is a foreign expert at the International Cultural Exchange Audio/Visual Publishing House, in 2006 Mr. Liu was named the Rothamsted International Fellow for the Communication of Science by the Rothamsted Research Institute. Mr Liu has held Fellowships in the Faculty of Applied Sciences and the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England (UWE) and is a PhD candidate at the University of Reading in the UK. Mr. Liu is currently a Senior Research Fellow at IUCN and working with various development agencies including the World Bank, DFID, and various parts of the United Nations, filming and communicating around the world on "Integrated Poverty Eradication and Large-Scale Ecosystem Rehabilitation".
Shen Lin
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