姜超 / Jiang Chao 林佳乔 / Lin Jiaqiao 潘小川 / Pan Xiaochuan 赵昂 / Zhao Ang In the past two years, more and more extreme weather, such as heat waves, have occurred in many places around the world and caused many premature deaths, which promotes more people to pay aenon to climate change and its health eects. In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued the “IPCC Global Warming 1.5 °C Special Report“, detailing that controlling the average temperature increase of the Earth's surface by the end of this century no higher than 1.5 ° C is signicantly benecial for human wellbeing and natural ecosystem health compared to keep it no higher than 2 ° C. The target of 1.5 ° C is more possible to ensure social development to be more sustainable and equitable. However, achieving the goal requires a signicant global reducon in greenhouse gas emissions and rapid acons in energy systems, urban planning, industrial design, land use, and transportaon planning. As the world's largest emier of greenhouse gases and the largest consumer of coal, China has a crucial role in global climate governance and low carbon transion. For years, the Rock Environment and Energy Instute (REEI) have worked on energy policy, carbon market, clean air policy, municipal solid waste management, environment and public health. In 2018, we connued to publish analysis related to the abovemenoned topics and share the experiences and pracces in climate change and low carbon transion of other countries. We hope to exchange our thoughts with our colleagues in this REEI Environmental Review 2018. At the same me, we expect that there will be more voices from civil society in the discussion of environmental governance policies to promote mul-parcipaon and raonal communicaon. “REEI Environmental Review“ has been published connuously since 2015. In the past year, we also registered as non-for-prot organizaon. We are here to express our gratude to our friends who have cared and helped us, and we sincerely thank some of our partners who have worked with us for the past six years. They are Friends of Nature, China Associaon for NGO Cooperaon, SEE Foundaon, Narada Foundaon, Ginkgo Foundaon, Healthcare Without Harm, Heinrich Boell Foundaon (Beijing Oce), Naonal Geographic Air the main venue for the GCAS is located in the city center, with the side-events in close proximity. There are many hotels to choose near the main venue, and public transportaon is convenient, which reduces extra trac-related carbon emissions. The second measure is to reduce the environmental impact of food waste. All lunches at the conference are cold meals and are mostly vegetarian, with reusable metal cutlery, which can reduce the environmental impact of the meal preparaon and waste management. In addion, the conference also provides reusable water boles and glass drinking cups, as well as minimizes the number of the print-outs to reduce the carbon footprint of the conference. 1. BSI Brish Standards launch new standard form an aging a more sustainable event. hps:/bsigroup/en-GB/about-bsi/media-centre/press-releases/2007/11/BSI-Brish-Standards-launches-new-standard-for-managing-a-mor e-sustainable-event/. 2. Global Climate Acon Summit Scores a First in Sustainable Events Management. hps:/globalclimateaconsummit/global-climate-acon-summit-scores-a-rst-in-sustainable-events-management/.