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Three Questions With: Ma Zhijun

Ma Zhijun, professor of life sciences at Shanghai’s Fudan University, who is working with the Paulson Institute on a wetlands blueprint for China, highlights the importance of wetlands to China’s national priorities. The news is...

Evan Feigenbaum on “The New Asian Order: And How the United States Fits In”

Climate Change and Air Quality News: January 30, 2015

Our Beijing-based Climate Change & Air Quality Program team share what they are reading and talking about On Wednesday it was confirmed that China has appointed Chen Jining, the president of Beijing’s Tsinghua University, as...

Mapping China’s Mass Migration

China was home to 80% of urban growth in East Asia from 2000-2010, according to new data from the World Bank. The move to China’s mega-cities has been the largest mass migration in human history....

Three must-reads on carbon reduction and China’s environment

Solutions to carbon reduction are within China's reach: In a recent China Daily editorial, Paulson Institute sustainable urbanization experts Deborah Lehr and Leigh Wedell argue that improving energy efficiency in buildings can be one of...

New Risky Business Report Examines Midwest Climate Risk

Chicagoans are expected to experience more days over 95°F each year by the end of the century than Texans do now. That is just one of the sobering findings of a report released today on...

Burning Down China’s Coal Complex

Monday’s news that China’s energy intensity dropped by 4.8% in 2014 not only beat expectations by nearly a percentage point; it gave credibility to China’s pledge to achieve peak carbon emissions by 2030. The challenge,...

Climate Change and Air Quality News: January 20, 2015

Our Beijing-based Climate Change & Air Quality Program team share what they are reading and talking about A new study submitted to Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics about the severe haze incident in Northern China in...

Can China Cut its Coal Addiction?

By Damien Ma China’s “airpocalypse” has reared its ugly head again this week in Beijing, cloaking the capital in what appeared to be a dystopian gray. But this isn’t science fiction; rather, it is a...

Are the Chinese Becoming Borrowers?

China is striving to transform its economy, in an attempt to reduce reliance on public investment and exports and develop consumption-driven growth instead. …How do you get the Chinese to consume more? Credit. The problem...