Teresa Kennedy, Master's student at Peking University's Yenching Academy in Beijing
Nov 06, 2019
The excessive amount of plastic in the world’s oceans has wreaked havoc on the environment. Now, the biggest offender of plastic mismanagement, China, is taking steps to remedy its system and limit the amount of plastic waste it produces.
Bryanna Criswell, Environmental Scientist
Oct 29, 2019
Scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China have discovered an alga-eating virus, bringing hope to the fight against toxic algae blooms.
Mikaila Smith, J.D. Candidate at the University of Chicago Law School
Sep 20, 2019
The massive fires in the Amazon Rainforest have ignited concern and sparked debates about the main actors behind climate change. Now the question remains – are the primary countries responsible going to take the action necessary to save the planet?
Charles Street, Master’s degree candidate, Sciences Po and Peking University
Aug 16, 2019
The efforts of the Chinese government to increase the electrification of their auto industry have caused an impressive increase in China’s use of renewable energy. It’s time for the US to catch up.
Lily Hartzell, Freelance Journalist based in Beijing
Aug 06, 2019
China has the potential to help countries all over the world leapfrog over coal, but so far it has fallen short, contradicting the green rhetoric China has repeatedly used to describe BRI.
Danielle Neighbour, Schwarzman Fellow
Gillian Zwicker, Research Assistant, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ China Environment Forum
May 31, 2019
Chinese cities can learn from New York City’s wastewater resiliency plan to prevent flooding in treatment plants, as well as the city’s steps to address wastewater pollution.
Lily Hartzell, Freelance Journalist based in Beijing
Mar 01, 2019
While Washington battles over the Green New Deal, China has been on the cutting edge of green finance and is even providing a model for the European Union. Even so, crucial questions remain.
Danielle Neighbour, Schwarzman Fellow
Feb 01, 2019
The US-China trade war is shifting the way water is spent between the two nations. As trade talks resume, the United States and China should take the world’s most precious resource into consideration- or else risk detrimental shortages.
Li Zheng, Assistant Research Processor, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Jan 29, 2019
The fifty-year history of space cooperation offers a more optimistic contrast to the China-US competition back on Earth.
Rob Efird, Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, Seattle University
Jan 29, 2019
All over the developed world, children are spending more time sedentary and in front of screens. Nature education is rising in popularity in China and the United States as a way to combat the detrimental effects of “nature-deficit disorder,” and instead offer children a healthy, satisfying and mutually sustaining relationship with the natural world.