The Third Session of Colloquium Series on Policy and Realities by CASS Members was held at Liangxiang Campus (R140, Administration Building) on the afternoon of May 17th, 2019. Chaired by Prof. Wang Xinqing, Vice President of UCASS, the talk was delivered by Pan Jiahua, Ph.D. supervisor, CASS Member and research fellow. Also serving as Director of the Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies, Prof. Pan has brought to the audience a presentation on The Evolving Landscape of Global Development Transition and Paradigm Innovation Towards Ecological Civilization.

Given the fundamental changes to both China and the rest of the world, Prof. Pan offered his thorough interpretation on the topic from the following five aspects: 1) The evolution of global economic landscape; 2) Trends of global emissions and targets of Paris Agreement; 3) World in transition: development agenda and objectives; 4) Theoretical innovation in transitional development; 5) Transformation and transition.

In his lecture, Prof. Pan referred to cases of the United States, China and India to take stock of the evolving global economic landscape, categorizing economies into the North-South Divide (The North and South of the Divide); three major blocks (developed economies, emerging economies and less developed economies); and five types of economies (featuring technology-driven expansion, supersaturation, quality-driven upgrade, investment-driven expansion and population-driven expansion). As pointed out by the speaker, global governance on sustainable development has evolved from a single-dimension process to a five-in-one model that seeks to balance the dynamics of people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership (5Ps). Upon detailed read into President Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, Prof. Pan identified the necessity for theoretical innovation on natural value, natural productivity, environment well-being, ecological red line (ecospace conservation) and community of shared life, based on analysis of the principles and systems of ecological civilization. The lecture also included proposed solutions for transformation and transition in forest carbon sink, biomass energy, low-carbon transport and new energy sector.