Jennifer Nguyen
Jennifer Nguyen is the Program Coordinator at the China Environment Forum. She works alongside the Program Director and manages the production of webinars, in-person meetings, events, and podcasts produced for CEF's Cool Agriculture, Vulnerable Deltas, and China and the Global Energy Transition projects, and serves as the managing editor for New Security Beat blogs published under the China Environment Forum's column. Her research interests include climate policy, clean energy transition, and China’s overseas investments in Southeast Asia. She holds an M.A. and B.A. in International Affairs from American University's School of International Service, concentrating in US Foreign Policy and National Security, with a regional focus on East Asia and the Indo-Pacific, and a minor in Chinese Language.
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Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Must Not Just Be More of the Same
›China and the Global Energy Transition // China Environment Forum // Vulnerable Deltas // September 19, 2024 // By Jennifer Nguyen
While standing on the banks of the Mahakam River in Samarinda on the island of Borneo, I watched an unending parade of coal barges sail slowly down the river. I was here in East Kalimantan to give a presentation at the Vulnerable Deltas Workshop—a joint project of the East-West Center and the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum.
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The Power of Play with The Plastic Pipeline
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During a visit to Vietnam in November 2023, I cringed as my aunt tossed our now empty bánh mì plastic bag onto the sidewalk. “It doesn’t really matter,” she shrugged, “there aren’t any nearby trash cans anyway.” Finding a trash can wouldn’t have helped much, as two-thirds of Vietnam’s plastic waste ends up burnt, landfilled, or leaked.
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Food Waste: A Low-Hanging Fruit for Methane Reductions
›China Environment Forum // Cool Agriculture // February 8, 2024 // By Jennifer Nguyen, Jennifer Turner & Karen ManclThis blog is modified from the Wilson Center-OSU “Cultivating US and Chinese Climate Leadership on Food and Agriculture Roadmap” publication.
“Waste is something that most of us just don’t see,” stressed Pete Pearson, Senior Director, Food Loss and Waste, WWF, at a recent Wilson Center event. Though people are “conditioned” to be blind to food waste, continued Pearson, this not-so-invisible problem wastes a third of food grown around the world. When this wasted food decomposes, it emits methane, accounting for 8 to 10% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
