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1、清华校长演讲稿清华校长演讲稿【篇一：哈佛大学校长在清华大学演讲稿】 哈佛大学校长在清华大学演讲稿（中英全文）-大学与气候变化带来的挑战 2015年3月20日 07:05 新浪博客 party secretary chen xu, assistant president shi yigong,distinguished faculty, students and friends. itis a privilege to be back at tsinghua, with an opportunity toexchange ideas on the most pressing challenges

2、 of ourtime. one challenge that will shape this centurymore than any other is our changing climate, and the effort tosecure a sustainable and habitable worldas rising sea levelsthreaten coastlines, increasing drought alters ecosystems andglobal carbon emissions continue to rise. there is a proverb t

3、hat the best time to plant a tree is 20years agoand the second best time is now. when ifirst visited tsinghua seven years ago, i planted a tree withpresident gu in the friendship garden. today, iam glad to return to this beautiful campus, founded on the site ofone of beijings historic gardens. i am

4、glad thetsinghua-harvard tree stands as a symbol of the many relationshipsacross our two universities, which continue to grow andthrive. more than ever, it is a testament to thepossibilities that, by working together, we offer theworld. that is why i want to spend a few minutestoday talking about th

5、e special role universities like ours play inaddressing climate change. last november here in beijing, president xi and president obamamade a joint announcement on climate change, pledging to limit thegreenhouse gas emissions of china and the united states over thenext two decades. it is a landmark

6、accord,setting ambitious goals for the worlds two largest carbon emittingcountries and establishing a marker that presidents xi and obamahope will inspire other countries to do the same. we could not have predicted such a shared commitment seven, or evenone year ago, between these two leadersboth, i

7、n fact, ouralumnione a tsinghua graduate in chemical engineering and thehumanities and the other a graduate of harvard lawschool. and yet our two institutions had alreadysown its seeds decades agoby educating leaders who can turn monthsof discussion into an international milestone, and by collaborat

8、ingfor more than 20 years on the climate analyses that made itpossible. in other words, by doing the thingsuniversities are uniquely designed todo. the u.s.-china joint announcement on climate change represents adefining moment between our two countries and for the world, amoment worthy of celebrati

9、on. china deservesgreat credit for all it has done and is doing to address a complexset of economic and environmental issues. while lifting 600 millionpeople out of poverty, you have built the worlds largest capacityin wind power and second largest in solar power. as one harvard climate expert put i

10、t, chinas “investments todecarbonize its energy system have dwarfed those of any othernation.” and last year, chinas emission indeeddid drop two percent. yet, even as we make real progress, the scale and complexity ofclimate change require humility and long-termthinking. we have made abeginning. but

11、 it is only a beginning. the recentvideo under thedome reminds us how much work is left to bedone. the commitments of governments can becarried out only if every sector of societycontributes. industry, education, agriculture,business, finance, individual citizensall are necessaryparticipants in what

12、 must become an energy and environmentalrevolution, a new paradigm that will improve public health, carefor the planet, and put both of our nations on the path toward aprosperous, low-carbon economy. no one understands this better than the students and faculty oftsinghua, where these subjects are re

13、search priorities and youroutgoing president chen jining, a graduate of tsinghuas departmentof environmental science and engineering, has just been appointedminister of environmental protection. he has beencalled a bridge-builder, a man of vision and fresh ideas, and aninspiring leader. the promise

14、of the 2014 joint climate pledge will require thosequalities of all of us. it will call on each ofus to do our part to transform the energy systems on which we relyand mitigate the harm they cause, to “think different,” as applessteve jobs used to sayto imagine new ways of seeing old problemsand, as

15、 he put it, to “honor the people who ? can change the worldfor the better.” universities are especially goodat “thinking different.” that is the point i wantto emphasize today. to every generation falls a dauntingtask. this is our task: to “think different”about how we inhabit the earth. where bette

16、r tomeet this challenge than in boston and beijing? how better to meet it than by unlocking and harnessing newknowledge, building political and cultural understanding, promotingdialogue and sharing solutions? who better tomeet it than you, the most extraordinary students, imaginative,curious, daring

17、. the challenge we face demandsthree great necessities. the first necessity is partnership. globalproblems require global partners. climate change is a perfectexample. we breathe the sameair. we drink the same water. we share the planet. we cannot live in acocoon. the stakes are toohigh. in an essay

18、 widely reprinted in chinese middle school textbookscalled “the geese return,” naturalist aldo leopold describes aneducated woman, an outstanding college student, who, and i quote,“?had never heard or seen the geese that twice a year fly aboveher well-insulated roof.”could this womansvaunted “educat

19、ion,” he asks, be no more than, in his words,“trading awareness for things of lesser worth?”adding that thegoose who “trades his awareness is soon a pile offeathers.” we all risk becoming a proverbial“pile of feathers” unless we cultivate awareness of each other andour common environmental crisis, a

20、nd then work together to solveit. we have seen the power of partnerships. formore than a century, harvard and china in particular havebenefitted from partnerships with histories that inspire us: john king fairbank in 1933, who caught the silver and blue busto tsinghua before dawn to teach his first

21、students theperspectives of chinese scholarship he had absorbed from professorjiang tingfu, one of chinas most eminent historians and the chairof tsinghuas history department. thoseexperiences changed fairbanks life. and theychanged harvard, where the fairbank center for chinese studiestransformed t

22、he field, and where the study of east asia nowencompasses more than 370 courses from history and literature togovernment and plant biology. ernest hey wilson in 1908, who navigated the yangtze riverwith a team of chinese plant collectors, documenting cultures withphotographs and collecting thousands

23、 of plant specimens forharvards arnold arboretum. wilsons long-term collaborationthesubject of a forthcoming cctv special (and exhibit at the harvardcenter shanghai)established one of our deepest connections,celebrating the extraordinary beauty and diversity of chinasnatural world. zhu kezhen in 191

24、8, who received his ph.d. from harvard afterpassing a scholarship exam at the school that would becometsinghua. he became the father of chinesemeteorology, pioneering 5,000 years of chinese climate data, and asa university president and vice president of the chinese academy ofsciences, shaped chines

25、e education by “cultivating scientists,” ashe put it, and i quote, in “the scientific spirit ? the pursuitfor the truth.” that spirit defines the harvard china project, founded in 1993as an interdisciplinary program to study chinas atmosphericenvironment, energy system and economy, and the role of e

26、nvironmentin u.s.-china relations. based at harvardsschool of engineering and applied sciences, its collaborators havespanned more than half of harvards schools and more than a dozenchinese institutions, including some seven different departments attsinghua. when the program began, before climatecha

27、nge made daily headlines, even its foundersprofessor michaelmcelroy and project director chris nielsen, soon joined by tsinghuaprofessor collaboratorscould not fully imagine itsimpact. it has been a model partnership and anengine of broad environmental knowledge that has influenced policyin both cou

28、ntries, and improved the lives of our citizens.ofessional training, cao jing studying economicsand public policy at harvards kennedy school and wang yuxuan, atsinghua graduate getting her harvard ph.d. in atmosphericchemistry. both are nowtsinghua faculty members. driven by common questions, they ca

29、me together asmembers of a team studying chinese carbon emissions. over severalyears they worked across disciplines, in both countries, withenvironmental engineers and health scientists to assess costs andbenefits of emission control policy options and their effect onhuman health. the teams findings

30、 weregroundbreaking, demonstrating for policy makers that they could infact achieve enormous environmental benefits at little cost toeconomic growth. such collaborations with tsinghua continue toshape chinas clean energy future with new ideas, from linking windfarms with electrified space heating to

31、 evaluatingthe effects of a changing climate on renewableenergy sources. our collaborations in the field of design are powerful as well,shaping the responses to urbanization and environmental change inboth countries. what might an ecologicallyconceived city look like? how can a village growinto one?

32、 harvards new center for greenbuildings and cities is working with tsinghuas evergrande researchinstitute to measure energy use for different building types inchina, a key to creating more efficient buildings andcities. a new collaboration with pekinguniversity advances more socially and ecologicall

33、y inclusive urbandesign. partnerships like these, betweenharvards graduate school of design and chinese institutions, aregenerating innovations in urban planning, green building andsustainable development that will change how welive. for example, walk along the reed-linedriverbank park in shanghai, as i have, w