Dr Ren Yong is Deputy Director-General, PhD, Senior Research Fellow Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), China. Dr Yong is a recognized expert who has led a large number of environmental policy studies sponsored by national governments, MEP, CCICED, and international organizations such as UNEP, the World Bank, GTZ, and US EPA. With a solid basis of studies, he has been directly involved in policy-making and legislation process in several related areas in China. Main research experiences have covered national strategies for environmental protection, economic instruments, circular economy and green economy policies, and international environmental policies. Dr Yong has received seven Scientific and Technological Progress Awards in areas such as circular economy, eco-compensation policies, CDM policies, and economic analysis on pollution abatement. Dr Yong has also published and contributed to several books and academic papers.
As a member of the Panel, Dr Yong was actively involved in the whole process of the Panel studies and other activities. He made contributions and provided essential ideas on all working groups, coordinated Chinese experts’ contributions to the bio-fuels, metals and water working groups, and in particular as a member of the decoupling group, he prepared a Chinese case study report - decoupling in China.
Contributed to the following reports
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Metal Recycling
A global move to a Product-Centric approach, in which recycling targets specific components of a product and devises ways to separate and recover them, is essential. This report addresses the challenges of recycling increasingly complex products.
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Measuring Water Use in a Green Economy
How do we meet the water, energy, land and material needs of up to 9 billion people, while keeping climate change, biodiversity loss and health threats within planetary boundaries?
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Assessing Biofuels
This report provides a robust assessment of key problems of production and use of biomass for energy purposes and options for more efficient and sustainable production and use of biomass.
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Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth
We are using unsustainable amounts of the Earth’s natural resources. We need to improve the rate of resource productivity (“doing more with less”) faster than the economic growth rate. This is the notion behind “decoupling”.