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Climate Change and Air Quality News: July 24, 2015

Our Beijing-based Climate Change & Air Quality Program team share what they are reading and talking about The Toledo, Ohio skyline at night. The city’s story of shifting from auto glass manufacturing to solar panels...

Kate’s Cliffnotes—July 20, 2015

Kate Gordon, the Paulson Institute's vice chair, weighs in on the Pope, recent Paulson Institute energy dialogues and a town called Pinggu that may become a model for China's new sustainable economic development plans. "Kate's...

Are China’s reforms still alive? Yes, but it’s complicated.

China watchers are trying to make sense of the country’s stock market crisis amid growing concerns about protectionism and darkening US-China relations. Are President Xi Jinping’s reforms still on track? “I’m convinced that their resolve...

Starchitect Jeanne Gang Talks Green Cities with China’s Mayors

By Dorinda Elliott [rev_slider JeanneGang]   Sitting in a classroom at Chicago’s Booth School of Business, it’s clear that China’s new emphasis on more sustainable development has gotten through to the country’s mayors. More than...

Paulson Institute Partners With PBOC on Green Finance Initiative

The Paulson Institute, in partnership with China’s newly launched Green Finance Committee, held the second in a series of seminars around green finance for clean technology in China. The aim of this initiative is to...

The Paulson Institute Newsletter – June 2015

5 Things to Know: How BYD Came to Make Electric Buses in America

A new case study in the Paulson Papers on Investment series, California Dreaming: How a Chinese Battery Firm Began Making Electric Buses in America looks at the story of BYD Auto, the ambitious Shenzhen-based and...

Voices: Five Key Takeaways from China’s New Climate Pledge

By Angel Hsu, Yuqian Peng, and Kaiyang Xu, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies China announced its official climate pledge last week, and although most of the details are not surprises--the document closely resembles...

Voices: Why China’s INDC carbon cap goals are a big deal

By Anders Hove Embed from Getty Images China’s newly released Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) represents an important contribution by this major economy and carbon emitter to the UN process to come to an agreement...

Three Questions With: Mark Clifford

In his new book The Greening of Asia, author Mark Clifford describes a region that is struggling with terrible pollution problems fueled by more than three decades of economic development at all costs. But he...