Our Publications
This list is consistently being updated. Group members bolded, students & collaborators underlined.
Ambient air pollution and consumer spending: Evidence from Spain
Brandt J, Goyal N, Moroney M, Janaskie S, Hsu A (2024) Ambient air pollution and consumer spending: Evidence from Spain. PLoS ONE 19(1): e0292245. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292245
Envisioning the Future of Non-State Climate Action Data and Accountability
Hsu, A. and M. Schletz. (2023). Envisioning the Future of Non-State Climate Action Data and Accountability. Data-Driven EnviroLab. Available at: https://datadrivenlab.org/wpcontent/uploads/2023/11/Future_of_NSA_Data_Accountability_Nov2023.pdf.
Doubling Down on Climate Action: Cities and Regions Must Put in 2x the Work to Stay on Track with Climate Goals
Song, K., Burley Farr, K., Hsu, A. Doubling Down on Climate Action: Cities and Regions Must Put in 2x the Work to Stay on Track with Climate Goals. (2023). https://datadrivenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DDL_Subnational_Climate_Progress_Nov2023.pdf
Cities and regions tackle climate change mitigation but often focus on less effective solutions
Burley Farr, K., Song, K., Yeo, Z.Y. et al. Cities and regions tackle climate change mitigation but often focus on less effective solutions. Commun Earth Environ 4, 439 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01108-6
Strengthening transparency of non-state actors: How national experiences and new digital technologies can strengthen the Transparency efforts of non-state actors
United Nations Environment Programme (2023). Strengthening transparency of non-state actors: How national experiences and new digital technologies can strengthen the Transparency efforts of non-state actors. https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/43573.
Angel Hsu: Author Chapter 4 & 5 and co-editor
Marco Schletz: Author Chapter 6 and co-editor.
Global Climate Action 2023: Ambition of Cities, Regions, and Companies
Utrecht University and Data-Driven EnviroLab. (2023, September 20). Global Climate Action 2023: Ambition of Cities, Regions, and Companies. Prepared by: Song, K., Hsu, A., Burley, K., Roelfsema, M., Jones, C., Clapper, A., & Du, L. https://datadrivenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20230926_Report_GCC_2023.pdf
Watch the launch webinar here: https://youtu.be/vvVSGwPSkqk
From drumbeating to marching: Assessing non-state and subnational climate action using data
Hsu, Angel. S. Chan, M. Roelfsema, M. Schletz, T. Kuramochi, S. Smit, A. Deneault. (2023). From Drumbeating to Marching: Taking Stock of Non-State and Subnational Climate Actions. Invited commentary, special Global Stocktake Issue. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.08.021
Making the Invisible Visible for a Climate Future
Hsu, A. “Making the invisible visible for a climate future.” Southern Cultures, 7 Sept. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a904678
Citizen and Machine Learning-aided high-resolution mapping of urban heat exposure and stress
Wang, X., Hsu, A., and Chakraborty, T. (2023). Citizen and machine learning-aided high-resolution mapping of urban heat exposure and stress. Environ. Res.: Infrastruct. Sustain. in press https://doi.org/10.1088/2634- 4505/acef57
Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability?
Hsu A., and M. Schletz. (2023). Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability? Climate Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2237937.
Quantifying subnational climate change mitigation solutions - a meta-analysis of impacts
Burley Farr, K., Song, K., Yeo, Z., Johnson, E., and Hsu A. Quantifying subnational climate change mitigation solutions – a meta-analysis of impacts. Preprint: doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2023.1165133
Blockchain and regenerative finance: charting a path toward regeneration
Schletz, M, Constant A, Hsu A, Schillebeeckx S, Beck R and Wainstein M (2023), Blockchain and regenerative finance: charting a path toward regeneration. Front. Blockchain 6:1165133. doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2023.1165133
Projecting Future Heat Stress Disparities to 2100 in the Contiguous United States
Song, K., Hsu, A., Peng, W., Yu, Y., and Kittner, N. Projecting Future Heat Stress Disparities to 2100 in the Contiguous United States. Pre-print: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/5657/
Chinese cities as digital environmental governance innovators: Evidence from subnational low-Carbon plans
Hsu, A., Li, L., Schletz, M., and Yu, Z. (2023). Chinese cities as digital environmental governance innovators: Evidence from subnational low-Carbon plans. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. Vol. 0(0) 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231186622
Net Zero Stocktake 2023
Net Zero Tracker (2023) Net Zero Stocktake 2023: NewClimate Institute, Oxford Net Zero, Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit and Data-Driven EnviroLab.
Residential segregation and outdoor urban moist heat stress disparities in the United States
Chakraborty, T. Newman, A. J., Qian, Y., Hsu, A., & Sheriff, G. (2023). Residential segregation and outdoor urban moist heat stress disparities in the United States. One Earth, 6(6), 738-750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.05.016
Predicting European cities’ climate mitigation performance using machine learning
Hsu, A., Wang, X., Tan, J. et al. Predicting European cities’ climate mitigation performance using machine learning. Nat Commun 13, 7487 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35108-5
Global Climate Action 2022: Progress and Ambition of Cities, Regions, and Companies
Data-Driven EnviroLab, Utrecht University, and CDP. (2022). Global Climate Action 2022: Progress and Ambition of Cities, Regions and Companies. Research report prepared by the team of: Zhi Yi Yeo, Katherine Burley, Ian French, and Angel Hsu (Data-Driven EnviroLab), Mark Roelfsema, Chelsea Jones (Utrecht University) and Andrew Clapper and Lucy Du (CDP).
Climate Data Needs Shared and Open Governance
M Schletz, A Hsu, Y Robiou du Pont, L Durkin, ZY Yeo, M Wainstein. (2022). Climate data need shared and open governance. Nature Correspondence. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03123-7
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information for Decision Making: A Framework Going Forward.
How are cities pledging net zero? A computational approach to analyzing subnational climate strategies
Net Zero Stocktake 2022: Assessing the status and trends of net zero target setting
Chapel Hill Heat Watch 2021 - Campaign Report
Nested Climate Accounting for Our Atmospheric Commons—Digital Technologies for Trusted Interoperability Across Fragmented Systems
From Low-to Net-Zero Carbon Cities: The Next Global Agenda
A seismograph for measuring the transformation to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions – Discussion Paper
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom‑up futures based on local practices and perspectives
Global climate action from cities, regions and businesses – 2021
Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments,
Climate Ambition and Sustainable Development for a New Decade: A Catalytic Framework
Diverse climate actors show limited coordination in a large-scale text analysis of strategy documents
Data and Transparency Key for China’s Pollution Clean-up
Sustainable and inclusive – Evaluating urban sustainability indicators’ suitability for measuring progress towards SDG-11
Measuring what matters, where it matters: A spatially explicit Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index for the Sustainable Development Goals
ClimActor, harmonized transnational data on climate network participation by city and regional governments
Future U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change: Working Towards a Green New Deal
Navigating the nuances of net-zero targets
Sub- and non-state climate action: a framework to assess progress, implementation and impact
Accelerating Net Zero: Exploring Cities, Regions, and Companies’ Pledges to Decarbonise
Correcting course: the emission reduction potential of international cooperative initiatives
Performance determinants show European cities are delivering on climate mitigation
Beyond states: Harnessing sub-national actors for the deep decarbonisation of cities, regions, and businesses
A spatially explicit surface urban heat island database for the United States: Characterization, uncertainties, and possible applications
Next-generation Digital Ecosystem for Climate Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: A Review of Digital Data Collection Technologies
Beyond national climate action: the impact of region, city, and business commitments on global greenhouse gas emissions
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Emerging digital environmental governance in China: the case of black and smelly waters in China
Global climate action from cities, regions and businesses: Impact of individual actors and cooperative initiatives on global and national emissions
NewClimate Institute, Data-Driven Lab, PBL, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. 2019 edition. Research report prepared by the team of: Takeshi Kuramochi, Swithin Lui, Niklas Höhne, Sybrig Smit, Maria Jose de Villafranca Casas, Frederic Hans, Leonardo Nascimento, Paola Tanguy, Angel Hsu, Amy Weinfurter, Zhi Yi Yeo, Yunsoo Kim, Mia Raghavan, Claire Inciong Krummenacher, Yihao Xie, Mark Roelfsema, Sander Chan, Thomas Hale.
Disproportionately higher exposure to urban heat in lower-income neighborhoods: a multi-city perspective
Black and Smelly Waters: How Citizen-Generated Transparency is Addressing Gaps in China's Environmental Management
Exploring links between national climate strategies and non-state and subnational climate action in nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
Tracking global climate change adaptation among governments
A Research Roadmap for Quantifying Non-State and Subnational Climate Action
The Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
UNEP Emissions Gap Report Non-State Actors Chapter
(2018). Bridging the emissions gap – The role of nonstate and subnational actors. In The Emissions Gap
Report 2018. A UN Environment Synthesis Report. United Nations Environment Programme. Nairobi.
Global climate action of regions, states and businesses
Mission 2020: The Climate Turning Point
From Citizens to Satellites : Third-Wave Data Approaches in China Towards a New Environmental Data Paradigm in China
Addressing Gaps in China's Environmental Data: The Existing Landscape
The Potential for Citizen-Generated Data in China
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries: Contributions to Reducing Global Emissions
(RE) and energy efficiency (EE) projects and initiatives. The focus of this report is to evaluate
the impact of these projects in terms of measurable greenhouse gas emissions’ reductions to
help close the emissions gap needed to meet the 2°C climate goal.