Data-Driven EnviroLab has received a $10,000 Faculty Development Grant that will allow the group to assess how overseas infrastructure investments from China affect land use in Southeast Asia. Urban growth is rapidly advancing in Southeast Asia – nearly half of...
Data has the potential to transform China’s environmental management. While its environmental data still sparks scrutiny, the country is in the midst of a turn towards more comprehensive monitoring, in the service of increasingly ambitious environmental goals. The...
On June 22, I joined a team of energy experts on a field trip to Ruicheng county in China’s Shanxi province. Shanxi is known as “the sea of coal,” and is responsible for almost a quarter of China’s total coal output. However, officials and experts in this small county...
Photo of Bangkok’s skytrain, from Shutterstock by Pakorn Amonstian. Urban growth is rapidly advancing in Southeast Asia, and this trend will have profound environmental impacts on the region and the world in the coming decades. Nearly half of the world’s urban...
Data-Driven Lab will begin a new research project mapping city, province, and company climate efforts in China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter and energy consumer. The organization recently received a Chinese Research Programme grant from the Tan Chin Tuan...
The New York Times and the Conduit Club in London invited me to participate in a panel discussion of China’s vision for climate action. I joined Jeremy Leggett, a social entrepreneur on clean energy, and moderator Max Strasser, international opinion editor for the...
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