The Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Tsinghua University and the Department of Forests and Environmental Study of Yale University have jointly launched a cooperative program to train senior Chinese cadres in environment and sustainable development.

The senior training program is designed to help administrators in urban planning and development of Chinese public and private departments such as mayors, government department leaders, corporate CEOs and NGO managers understand the strategy of sustainable development and the strategy to cope with it

The program covers the trend of the environment and sustainable development and the opportunities and challenges it faces; the concept of urban and industrial ecology and its application in the formulation of urban planning and policy for sustainable development; and the application of the concept of sustainable development in water supply and quality, energy, pollution reduction, waste disposal and other serious urban issues.

(www.cenews.com.cn June 16, 2003)