China is building momentum to incorporate green finance into its national development strategy, demonstrating a keen understanding that environmental protection requires significant investment. In 2013, China’s Third Plenum of the 18th Congress of the Communist Party...
Above: A satellite image reveals air pollution blanketing the Korean Peninsula. Credit: GeoEye, Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Asia_dust_2000-04-07.jpg) By: Don Mosteller, Research Fellow More than half of South Korea’s...
Above: Kai and F&ES classmate Andrew Moffat at the Renewable Energy Industries Forum 2015 in Washington, D.C. Hailing from Harbin (哈尔滨市), the capital of China’s Heilongjiang (黑龙江) province – known as the “Ice City” for its extremely cold winters – Xu Kaiyang (Kai)...
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, Andrew Moffat, and Kaiyang Xu. This post originally appeared on ChinaFAQs. From the Paris Climate Negotiations The international climate agreement reached at the recent 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
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