by Angel Hsu | Dec 3, 2010 | China, Climate
“China is still very hurt from last year’s Copenhagen talks,” the lead of the Chinese youth delegation, Lina Li, told me yesterday on one of the many buses shuttling this year’s participants at the UN Climate Summit in Cancun. Her statement...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 3, 2010 | Data, Remote Sensing
While climate negotiators were busy discussing the role of forests in the Cancun climate negotiations, Google was launching its Earth Engine – a practical tool to help countries obtain information about their forests, which are critical carbon sinks, easily and...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 3, 2010 | China, Climate, Energy
Our piece, “Commentary: Sector-based Approaches to Measuring and Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: China’s Cement Industry,” by Angel Hsu, Neelam Singh, and Ranping Song was finally published in Vol. 11 of the China Environment Forum, which features a...
by Angel Hsu | Nov 30, 2010 | China, Climate
This post originally appeared on ChinaFAQs. “Late last year, Ren and around 40 other young Chinese people arrived in Copenhagen, hoping to break the silence of their peers on the international issue of climate change. They constituted the largest Chinese youth group...
by Angel Hsu | Nov 29, 2010 | China, Climate, UNFCCC
Excerpts of this blog were featured on Damien Ma’s blog on The Atlantic. While expectations for the upcoming United Nations climate talks in Cancun have been intentionally kept low, China is doing the opposite – raising the bar for developing countries that have...