by Data-Driven Lab | Mar 17, 2025 | China, Climate, Featured, Global Climate Action
The following blog post was written by Angel Hsu, Director of the Data-Driven EnviroLab and Associate Professor at UNC. In this piece, she delves into the potential for future climate action in both China and the U.S. to overcome the setbacks caused by the current...
by Kayla Guilliams | Feb 14, 2022 | China, Featured, Urbanization
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...
by Amy Weinfurter | Oct 7, 2019 | China
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...
by Xiyao Fu | Aug 13, 2019 | China, Energy
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...
by Angel Hsu | Aug 7, 2019 | China
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...
by Amy Weinfurter | Jun 5, 2019 | China
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...
