by Angel Hsu | Mar 6, 2016 | Air quality, Big Data, China, Data
When it comes to our most pressing environmental challenges, much of the data needed to take effective action are missing. Water quality, recycling rates, toxic chemical exposures, land degradation – assessing these environmental issues is hampered by the lack of...
by Angel Hsu | Feb 24, 2016 | Air quality, Data, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Featured
Photo by Nicolò Lazzati on Flickr.com. This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. By Angel Hsu and Carlin Rosengarten Last year was the hottest year on record — and by a wide margin, too. By early summer atmospheric CO2 concentrations silently ticked...
by Angel Hsu | Nov 17, 2015 | Climate, Data, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Urbanization
Exploring urban sustainability data and metrics in Seoul, South Korea. What can data tell us about building greener cities? What sustainability indicators can be compared city-to-city? By Alisa Zomer, MEM’14, EPI Manager The Seoul subway has 18 train lines and...
by Angel Hsu | Oct 9, 2015 | Air quality, Data, Featured
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Beijing, the most liveable city in China? “The best joke all year,” said Weibo user Ren Fei. Not intended as a joke, Beijing emerged as the most liveable Chinese city in the Economist Intelligence Unit...
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...
