A group of ninety Chinese academics will be touring Wisconsin later this week as part of the â??U.S.-China Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Conference and Tour,â? where the delegation will be whisked across the state as part of a cross-cultural exchange of ideas on environmental protection and rehabilitation.
The group was featured Wednesday at the Multi-State Working Groupâ??s workshop on environmental performance in Madison, where several panels examined whether U.S. and Chinese markets can deliver on ecological results and chemical regulation. The nature of future trading between the two countries in the environmental goods and services sector was also discussed.
Terry Shelton, outreach director from the LaFollette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison, said the delegation will help facilitate an open dialogue that will take them to areas such as the Horicon Marsh and Fox River to learn how those in Wisconsin rehabilitated their own heavily polluted rivers, a subject of special importance to the Chinese as their river systems are consistently regarded as some of the most heavily polluted throughout the world.