Measured Insights
The latest blog posts from our research projects.
China’s vision for climate action: A New York Times and Conduit Club London Event
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...
Workshop Explores Strategies to Track Progress on Climate Action
This September, global leaders will gather in New York City for the 2019 UN Global Climate Action Summit, kicking off a year-long discussion about how countries will step up their efforts to combat climate change. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has already...
Learning across continents: Yale and Yale-NUS students engage China’s sustainability challenges
From March 20 to 24, 2019, Data-Driven Lab Director Dr. Angel Hsu led 32 students from Yale-NUS College and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES) on a class trip to Beijing, China to experience China’s energy and sustainability challenges...
Director Hsu named 2019 Inspiring Yale Speaker for School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Dr. Angel Hsu was named a 2019 Inspiring Speaker, as part of Inspiring Yale's celebration of research and thought leadership across Yale's 13 graduate and professional schools. This annual symposium features short talks from faculty nominated by students to share...
Exploring Virtual Reality for Climate Change Communication
By Saskia Comess, David Paolella, and Andrew Feierman While more than 75 percent of Americans say that climate change will affect future generations, less than 50 percent believe it will affect them personally. This startling statistic, shared by the Yale Program on...
How can blockchain track action on climate change?
This post originally appeared on Medium, as part of a series of posts discussing Radical Collaboration and Blockchain for Climate Accounting. A rush of recent scientific studies have underlined the need for faster, more ambitious efforts to curb emissions and prepare...
A laughing matter? Harnessing humor for climate change
What do Mary Poppins and geo-engineering have in common with respect to climate change? Think about billions of Mary Poppins’ reflective umbrellas, miniaturized and deliberately placed in the earth’s upper atmosphere, to cool us down. It’s a funny image, right? What...
Highlighting city, region, and company climate action at the COP-24 Climate Conference
Data-Driven Yale Director Dr. Angel Hsu at the COP24 side event: Making climate action more transparent and ambitious, Katowice, 4.12.2018. © German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), CC BY-ND 2.0. This Saturday marked the...
Unlocking data to track progress towards inclusive, sustainable cities
“I think data is power --- but, more importantly, data is latent power. To actually unlock it is a tricky exercise.” These comments, from UN Habitat’s Robert Kehew, helped kick off the launch of the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) on December 6 in...
Sustainable transport in Chinese cities: An interview with Daizong Liu
Sustainable Public Transportation, in particular, public transit system developments, is at the forefront of cities’ efforts to foster inclusive, sustainable development. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals – which set global targets to guide the world’s...
