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Progress and Challenges for China’s Wetlands

By Chen Liwei For World Wetlands Day on February 2, I traveled from Beijing down to Hangzhou to attend a seminar held by the Wetland Management Office of the State Forestry Administration, a partner of...

Can One Video Save China’s Environment?

Will Under the Dome, the 104-minute air pollution documentary that became an Internet sensation in China over the weekend, be a turning point for the country’s environmental movement? More than two hundred million Chinese have already...

Building Community in China’s New Cities

In his New-style Urbanization Plan (2014-2020), Xi Jinping called for the development of more people-friendly cities. But new mapping from the World Bank indicates just how much China’s mega-cities have abandoned traditional, community-focused design. While...

The Two-fer That Isn’t: Why Air Pollution and Carbon Reductions in China Don’t Overlap as Much as You Think

A new Paulson Institute paper argues that China should tackle air pollution and climate change at the same time, for the sake of economic efficiency—and the health of the planet. In “Double Impact: Why China...

A Coal Cap with Economic Benefits

China’s leaders worry that cracking down on air pollution will spell economic contraction. But the opposite result is achievable, according to a new study by North China Electric Power University. If China were to implement...

Fast Take: Five Things to Know…about China’s urban (non) labor shortage

In the latest Paulson Policy Memorandum Harnessing China’s Untapped Labor Supply, Professor Xin Meng of Australian National University argues that a misreading of China’s “shortage” of urban labor has led to policies that could challenge...

Climate Change and Air Quality News: February 13, 2015

Our Beijing-based Climate Change & Air Quality Program team share what they are reading and talking about The New Yorker magazine explores how data transparency has been a huge factor in moving air quality issues...

Why a US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty Matters

By Deborah Lehr China’s trade negotiators were recently in Washington to continue negotiations towards a bilateral investment treaty between China and the United States. Much still remains to be hammered out: China plans to submit...

The Paulson Institute Newsletter – February 2015

Building a “Sustainable Eco-Edge District” outside Beijing

By Leigh Wedell China’s mayors are on the front lines of the country’s ambitious drive to move more than 100 million people into cities over the next six years. Their challenge is to try to...