China’s voracious demand for commodities has fuelled an extended commodity boom in Latin America since the turn of the century and has opened the door for a wave of new finance agreements and investments in infrastructure. The boom has also increased pressure on sensitive environments and led to resource-related conflicts across the region. But the recent end of the commodity cycle has brought with it as yet unanswered questions about how Latin America adapts to China’s slower growth under the “new normal”. Jin Jiaman and Isabel Hilton will discuss the role that government and civil society can play to ensure that this evolving partnership can deliver benefits that are environmentally sustainable.

Isabel Hilton (@isabelhilton) is an international journalist and broadcaster. She studied at the Beijing Foreign Language and Culture University and at Fudan University in Shanghai before taking up a career in written and broadcast journalism, working for The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian, and the New Yorker. In 1992 she became a presenter of the BBC’s flagship news program, The World Tonight, then BBC Radio Three’s cultural program Night Waves. She is a columnist for The Guardian and her work has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Granta, the New Statesman, El Pais, Index on Censorship, and many other publications.

Jiaman Jin is the Executive Director of the Beijing-based Global Environmental Institute (GEI) where she is responsible for the development, administration, design and management of all of GEI’s programs. She has worked for 22 years in environmental fields and prior to establishing GEI, she worked at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences as the Director of the Technology Service Center, and then as the Vice Director of the Office of the Dean. Before that she served as a manager of UNEPnet Beijing Earth Station and from 1992 to 1996 the Secretary and then the Administrating Director of Leadership for Environment and Development China program.

Alvaro Mendez (@alvaroimendez) is the co-founder of the LSE Global South Unit. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE; Research Associate, University of Bristol; and a former editor of Millennium-Journal of International Studies at the LSE.

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