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Paulson Institute Co-Sponsors Conference on China’s Environment

The Paulson Institute co-sponsored a conference, “China’s Pollution: The Costs, Challenges and Steps Forward,” with the University of Chicago and the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC). Institute Chairman Hank Paulson gave opening remarks, stressing...

The Paulson Institute Newsletter – January 2015

Damien Ma: “The Year the Training Wheels Came Off China”

Will 2015 Be the Turning Point for Air Pollution in China?

By Anders Hove Will 2015 be a turning point in China’s war on air pollution? The U.S.-China Climate Change Accord, announced in mid-November, set off fireworks in China’s environmental community. Institute Chairman Hank Paulson hailed...

Did Air Pollution Improve in 2014?

By Anders Hove Has China made progress on air pollution in 2014? The charts seem to show that Beijing’s air quality got just a tiny bit better. But data for the year indicate that the...

The Saga Continues: How Two Abandoned Oriental Stork Chicks Made it Back to the Wild

THE LONG JOURNEY After months of coddling two rare Oriental White Stork chicks, which had been abandoned by their parents in the Beidagang wetland in Tianjin, experts at the Tianjin Wildlife Rescue Station determined that they...

The Saga of Two Oriental White Stork Chicks

NESTING INSTINCT There was some celebration this fall when conservationists spotted a rare Oriental White Stork building a nest atop a wire pole in the Beidagang Binhai Wetlands Nature Reserve in Tianjin. The graceful, leggy...

5 Ways a US-China Investment Treaty Would Help China

A US-China BIT would bring greater competition to Chinese factories In a roundtable co-hosted by the Paulson Institute at the annual US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade meeting on December 17 in Chicago, the...

5 Ways a US-China Investment Treaty Would Help Americans

In a roundtable discussion at the annual US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade meeting, co-hosted today by the Paulson Institute in Chicago, the one thing that both US and Chinese investors consistently called for was...

Is There Hope for China’s Oriental White Stork?

Some 800 highly endangered Oriental White Storks were spotted recently at the Beidagang Wetland Nature Reserve in Tianjin – a major habitat for these migratory birds along their route south for the winter. The Beidagang...