by Angel Hsu | Oct 1, 2014 | Air quality, China
This post originally appeared on China Dialogue. The photo is by Han Zun Zeng on Flickr.com. China’s leaders drafting the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) should remember that targets are only one tool for tackling air pollution. As China’s policymakers mull the...
by Angel Hsu | Sep 30, 2014 | Data, Policy, Sustainability
This post was co-written with Whitney Johnson, a Master of Environmental Management (MEM’16) candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. It originally appeared on Huffington Post. What can be done to ensure that countries can both measure...
by Angel Hsu | Aug 6, 2014 | Climate, Data
With countries aiming to negotiate a new global climate deal by the end of 2015, there are concerns as to whether such an agreement will be sufficiently ambitious to prevent dangerous global temperature rise. Such ambition hinges not only upon national government...
by Angel Hsu | Aug 6, 2014 | China, Data
This post originally appeared on China Dialogue. Despite the recent release of data on soil pollution, we are far from having the complete picture, argue Angel Hsu and Andrew Moffat. China’s release of a first nationwide soil pollution survey earlier this yearwas met...
by Angel Hsu | Jun 21, 2014 | China, Data
By Angel Hsu and William Miao. This post originally appeared on Scientific American. On March 17, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Land and Resources released the first-ever results of a nationwide soil pollution survey that took...
