Summer Schools & Courses

Call for Applications

Achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is a major strategic decision made by China and an important step in the global response to climate change. Today, the concept of carbon neutrality is gradually becoming a global consensus. Opening a new era of global low-carbon development will become a new driver of future economic growth.

To empower young scholars with climate insight and leadership, the CEADs Carbon Accounting Database team will hold a summer school from July 22 to July 31, 2022, to discuss carbon accounting and carbon neutrality transition pathways in China and other emerging economies. Students from universities and research institutes are warmly invited to apply. Due to venue and other constraints, the CEADs team will select more than one hundred outstanding young scholars to participate.

The China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs, ceads.net), with support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the Administrative Centre for China's Agenda 21, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, UK Research and Innovation, the Newton Fund, and other organizations and research institutions, brings together scholars from research institutions in China, Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other regions. The team jointly compiles multi-scale carbon emission inventories for China and other emerging economies and analyzes global and regional carbon emission characteristics. The database has supported more than 800 journal papers worldwide, provides a solid scientific basis for green and low-carbon development in different regions, and contributes to policy design and implementation for controlling greenhouse gas emissions in emerging economies.

CEADs Summer School has been held successfully for three years. It was suspended in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. Through lectures, group projects, teamwork, and other formats, it aims to provide outstanding young scholars with systematic training in carbon accounting methodology, practical guidelines, and case-based teaching, while building an academic platform for exchange and collaboration in carbon accounting.

In July 2022, the carbon accounting summer school will be hosted by the China Emission Accounts and Datasets team (CEADs), organized by the Institute of Marine Sustainable Development at Xiamen University, and co-organized by the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, University College London, the University of Birmingham, and other partners. With the theme Carbon Accounting and Carbon Neutrality Transition Pathways in China and Emerging Economies, the summer school will set sail again. It will invite well-known experts and scholars from China and abroad to deliver keynote reports. Participating students will also work in groups to study dual-carbon transition and development in different countries and cities, and to explore in depth the socioeconomic impacts of climate change and green, zero-carbon development pathways across countries and regions.

Students interested in joining the summer school should send a CV and one representative paper, in Chinese or English, to ceads2022@163.com by July 1, 2022. Please use Summer School - Name - Institution as the email subject. The CEADs team will notify applicants of admission results by email before July 7.

Dates: July 22, 2022 - July 31, 2022

Registration date: July 21, 2022

Location: Xiamen University, Xiamen

Format: Fully in person, with no online participation option

The summer school charges no registration fee. Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodation, and meals.

Due to the impact of the pandemic, the specific summer school venue has not yet been confirmed. We will closely monitor epidemic prevention and control conditions and organize the summer school at an appropriate time and place under appropriate conditions in line with prevention requirements. Relevant information will be released in advance through our WeChat official account, so please stay tuned.

For questions about this summer school, please contact ceads2022@163.com.

Highlights from Previous Summer Schools

Insightful Reports

(Photos taken at CEADs Summer School 2019)

A Strong Research and Learning Atmosphere

Water Gun Games in the Summer Heat

- Reflections from Previous Participants -

Du Yi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: The lectures were extremely rewarding. I will learn from all the outstanding senior scholars.

Wei Liyuan, Wuhan University: Thank you to all the teachers for your hard work. Your comments have given us great inspiration for our next steps. Thank you.

Zhao Hailong, Tsinghua University: Thank you to the teachers for providing such a good platform, giving us the opportunity to get to know one another and work together on meaningful research. These ten days also helped us build deep friendships. I hope everyone will keep in touch.