by Yihao Xie | Oct 5, 2018 | China
When the U.S. administration first declared its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, it threatened to unravel a relationship between the world’s two largest climate emitters that was key to securing the agreement in the first place. Worried observers may be...
by Yihao Xie | Mar 28, 2018 | Big Data, China, Data, Data Visualization
“Do or do not, there is no try,” once said great Jedi master Yoda, whose likeness peered out from a tranquil pond below DBS Bank’s Asia X office, located in LucasFilms’ aptly-named Sandcrawler building. Students participating in Yale-NUS’s Data 2.0 Hackathon kept...
by Yihao Xie | Jan 9, 2018 | China, UNFCCC
COP-23 negotiations in Bonn, Germany China’s message to the world at the latest UN climate talks was clear: its climate and emission goals would be honored, with or without the United States. But does that make China the new global leader in climate action? After the...