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...
by Angel Hsu | May 1, 2019 | China, Featured, Presentations
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...
by Yihao Xie | Oct 5, 2018 | China
When the U.S. administration first declared its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, it threatened to unravel a relationship between the world’s two largest climate emitters that was key to securing the agreement in the first place. Worried observers may be...
by Amy Weinfurter | Aug 29, 2018 | Featured, Uncategorized
Cities, states, and businesses could narrow by half the gap between the current U.S. emissions trajectory and the country’s Paris pledge A new report finds that action by cities, states, regions and business can go a long way towards meeting the goals of the Paris...