Degrees:
Ph.D., CUNY-The Graduate Center
M.Sc., SOAS, Univ. of London
B.A., Hampshire College
Prior to completing her PhD in International Relations at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, Lucia was a Project Manager and later a Special Advisor at the US-China Clean Tech Center and the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation, a climate change and energy policy research center based in Beijing, China. She is the co-creator and manager of the Energy and Climate Registry, a greenhouse gas management tool and reporting platform for corporations in China.
Lucia has been interviewed on Democracy Now!, WNYC’ Brian Lehrer show, Doug Henwood’s Behind the News and This American Life. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Huffington Post, Grist, Alternet, The Brooklyn Rail, Chinadialogue.net and the New York Times.
She earned her MSc in Asian Politics from SOAS, University of London. She was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2015-2021.
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International Relations
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US Foreign Policy
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US-China Relations
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Asian Politics
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Energy and Climate Change
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US-China conflict and cooperation
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Climate change and social justice
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US foreign policy
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Academic Publications:
- Blaxekjær, Lau Øfjord, Bård Lahn, Tobias Dan Nielsen, Lucia Green-Weiskel, and Fang Fang. "The narrative position of the Like-Minded Developing Countries in global climate negotiations." In Coalitions in the Climate Change Negotiations, pp. 113-135. (Routledge, 2020).
- “Chen Xitong,” chapter in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography 4th ed. (Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2014).
- Green-Weiskel, Feng An, Robert Earley and Liping Kang, “Global Overview
of Fuel Efficiency and Motor Vehicles Emission Standards,” United
Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs, May 2011.
- Panelist, United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 2009 and Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2010.
Other Publications:
- “China’s Green Leap Backward,” The Nation, Jan. 16, 2013.
- “Scant CO2 Benefit from China’s Coal-Powered Electric Cars,” New York Times, Oct. 10, 2011.
- “Asian Coal Giant Shenhua to Allay Climate Impacts,” Climate Change Business Journal, August 2011.
- “China Rethinks Nuclear Power,” The Nation, May 9, 2011.
- “Electric Vehicles: Where do the Emissions Go?” Huffington Post, Apr. 4, 2011.
- “Climate Clash in Cancun,” The Nation, Jan. 3, 2011.
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- Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, 2015-2021
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