Kevin Tu, an adjunct professor, Beijing Normal University
Nov 30, 2020
In his video address to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a slight improvement of China’s 2015 Paris climate agreement pledge: national carbon dioxide emissions should now peak before 2030 rather than around 2030.

Li Zheng, Assistant Research Processor, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Nov 20, 2020
Can China’s green initiatives and the Green New Deal in the United States work in harmony? With both countries committed to a transition to new energy, it is more important than ever for them to communicate.

William M. Reicher, a research intern, China Environment Forum
Sep 16, 2020
Chronic water shortages have become an entrenched issue around the world. In China and the United States, desalination solutions are being applied to replenish precious water supplies.

Clare Auld-Brokish, Summer 2020 research assistant, Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum
Aug 19, 2020
As municipal budgets are squeezed by COVID-19, authorities need to get creative in order to stave off future weather events.
Jianyin Roachell, Transatlantic Digital Debate Fellow and Research Associate at Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Jul 06, 2020
‘Ecological Civilization’ and ‘Beautiful China’ are state-led ideologies that play a significant role in Chinese climate policy for both the policymakers and citizens.

Karen Mancl, Professor Emerita of Food, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
May 17, 2020
Around the world, breweries are seeking ways to lower their environmental footprint, while increasing production and profits. The brewery industries in China and the U.S. look at methane biogas capture from their wastes as a part of both their business plans and to meet environmental sustainability goals.

Teresa Kennedy, Master's student at Peking University's Yenching Academy in Beijing
Apr 23, 2020
The issue of deep-sea presents a classic dilemma between climate protection and innovation. China has the greatest capability to pioneer a method of finding a balance between the two.

Teresa Kennedy, Master's student at Peking University's Yenching Academy in Beijing
Apr 23, 2020
The issue of deep-sea presents a classic dilemma between climate protection and innovation. China has the greatest capability to pioneer a method of finding a balance between the two.

Karen Mancl, Professor Emerita of Food, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
Apr 16, 2020
Agricultural plastics have transformed China’s agriculture and the Chinese are unlikely to abandon its use. If things do not change, plastic use in agriculture will move from a “white revolution to white pollution”.

Teresa Kennedy, Master's student at Peking University's Yenching Academy in Beijing
Apr 10, 2020
Against the backdrop of the global supply chain and climate change, possibilities for growth in China’s alternative meat market are undeniable, and US companies are looking to profit.
