• Climate Change Mitigation
• Carbon Emissions Reduction Mechanisms
• Climate Law and Policy
• Environmental Law and Policy
• Environmental Governance

• Casual Lecturer, 'International Climate Law', School of Law, Western Sydney University, February-July 2015.
• Guest Lecturer, 'Chinese Environmental Law', International Law Course, Faculty of Law, Bond University, 30 June 2015.

• Presenter, ‘The Chinese ETS: From Sub-National Pilots to a National ETS’, MERICS Colloquium, Berlin, Germany, 24 July 2017.
• Presenter, ‘Key Issues on Designing and Implementing Emissions Trading System in China’, The Third Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment, Osaka, Japan, 7 June 2013.
• Presenter, ‘Developing a National Legal and Policy Framework in China for the Control of Carbon Emissions’, UWS School of Law Research Colloquium, Sydney, Australia, 28 November 2012.

• MERICS International Fellowship, Mercator Institute for China Studies, Jun. 2017 – Aug. 2017, Germany
• Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Government, Nov. 2015 – Apr. 2016, Australia
• Australia-APEC Women in Research Fellowship, Australian Government, Jul. – Oct. 2015, Australia
• Equity Scholarship, Council of International Students Australia (CISA), 2015, Australia
• Australian Postgraduate Award, Australian Government, 2011-2014, Australia
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council, 2013, China
• Excellent Postgraduate Scholarship, Nanjing University, 2009, China
• DAAD One-year Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service, 2008-2009, Germany
• Outstanding Graduate, Nanjing University, 2006, China
• People Scholarship, Nanjing University, 2003-2005, China

A Critical Analysis of Cooperative Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

To encourage more countries to commit to taking part in a global mitigation regime, the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation confirmed an increasing support for carbon markets. Particularly, given the failure of global cooperation in the post-Kyoto mitigation regime, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement provides three approaches to emissions reduction in the use of international cooperation mechanisms. In this context, questions are to be asked: 1) how can cooperative implementation mechanisms established by the Kyoto Protocol explain the trajectory of gloomy global cooperation in the governance of climate change mitigation; 2) are cooperative approaches as stipulated in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement effective approaches to promoting global cooperation in current mitigation regime; and 3) if not, what alternative approaches or recommendations can be provided to keep cooperation on climate change mitigation alive at a global scale.

This project first aims to develop a dynamic understanding of global cooperation in the governance of climate change mitigation. Particularly, it aims to analyze the failed attempts of global cooperation in a top-down manner through investigating how market-based climate change mechanisms (such as the ET) established by the Kyoto Protocol explain the unsuccessful global cooperation after the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Meanwhile, it aims to check the effectiveness of the three cooperative approaches provided by Article 6 of the Paris Agreement – i.e., direct bilateral cooperation (Article 6.2),  new sustainable development mechanism (Article 6.4), and non-market-based approaches (Article 6.8).  Through conducting an empirical study on the three approaches in the use of international cooperation mechanisms, successful instances and failed attempts of global cooperation – as well as how these experiences have in turn fostered or hampered further cooperation – will be identified and investigated to shed light on the durability, reversibility, linearity or changeability of global governance arrangements in the field of climate change mitigation. Alternative approaches or recommendations will be provided where necessary at the end of this research.