Associate Dean & Research Professor

Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Peking University

Founding Director

Climate Future Global Innovation Lab (C Force Lab)

https://carbon.pku.edu.cn/hzxm/CForceLab/index.htm

Professional Summary

Dr. Binbin Wang is Founder of C Force Lab — a platform she launched at COP29 in Baku to advance "Civilization-based Solutions" (CbS), a framework that moves climate governance beyond technocratic fixes to embrace civilizational diversity and local knowledge.

Her climate engagement began in 2009 at COP15 and has spanned grassroots adaptation, policy advocacy, and high-level diplomacy — including service as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Office and Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC), where she led a 15-university network across five continents.

She launched the Beyond Climate Dialogue featuring global thought leaders including Mary Evelyn Tucker, Satish Kummar, and Johan Rockström, initiated the "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Challenges" Global Dialogueat the United Nations Office at Geneva (2025), co-architect the Civilization-based Solutions (CbS) framework with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim from Yale School of Environment (2026).

Her work has been recognized with the National Geographic Wayfinder Award (2026), the World Bank Asia-Pacific Outstanding Women Award (2023), a Yale World Fellow (2023) and Homeward Bound (2018, Global Female Scientists Leadership Program). She is the first Chinese author to publish a sole-authored English monograph on global climate governance with Springer Nature.

Selected Publications:

· Ancient Wisdom for Modern Challenges: Why Civilization-based Solutions Should Frame the Post-2025 Climate Agenda, Binbin Wang, Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim (2026) , Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 68:2, 43-47, DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2026.2601493 

· Unmuting the message: Climate communication in a complex world, One Earth, Cell Press, June,2025.

· Powering the Twin Engines: Navigating China-EU Climate Cooperation, April, released in Brussels, April, 2025

· Chinese Public Awareness, Support, and Confidence in China’s Carbon Neutrality Goal’, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Oct, 2024

· Chinese Version of The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Christiana Figureres & Tom Rivett-Carnac, translated by Binbin Wang), Best seller, CITIC Press Group. June, 2021.

· The Choice We Make, Best seller, CITIC Press Group, Jan,2021.

· China’s Transition on Climate Change Communication and Governance, From Zero to Hero, Springer Nature, Jan, 2021.

· Climate Change in the Chinese Mind, Social Science Press, Sept, 2020.

· From Copenhagen to Madrid, the Decade Research of Climate Communication in China, Yanshan Press, May, 2020.

· Climate Change in the Chinese Mind: An Overview of Public Perceptions at Macro and Micro Levels, WIREs Climate Change, April, 2020