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Slow Down? Environmental Regulators Tap the Brakes on China’s High-Speed Rail
China’s high-speed railway (HSR) is the most recent poster child for the country’s rapid development, with more HSR tracks than the rest of the world combined. Since 2004, the Chinese government has...
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Milking the Dairy Industry for Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions in China
When Kevin Chen began his agricultural research 20 years ago, most dairy farms in China were small and family-owned. People of his generation did not grow up with milk deliveries or ice cream. Today,...
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The Changing Geopolitics of Critical Minerals and the Future of the Clean...
At a recent Wilson Center event on the shifting geopolitics of critical minerals, Cory Combs, Associate Director at Beijing-based Trivium China, noted that “the nature of global resource competition is...
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Bottom-up Moo-vement: Reducing Methane Emissions from US and Chinese Cows
When cows eat, they burp. And what they exhale generates almost a third of global methane emissions – a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent in warming the climate than CO2. So tracking this short-lived...
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No Water, No Food – Glacier Loss Threatens US and Chinese Agriculture
Picture this: A parade of yaks carrying insulated boxes containing meter-long ice core samples from Tibetan glaciers. “Yaks are like cats,” elite glacier scientist Lonnie Thompson explained in a 2023...
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China Leads the Race to the Bottom: Deep Sea Mining for Critical Minerals
In December 2022, at the Nansha District port in the Pearl River Delta, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation unveiled China’s first oceanographic drilling ship—capable of mining 10,000 meters deep....
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How China’s Mountain Farmers are Coping with Climate Change
Faced with the grim situation of normalized extreme heat and drought, it is imperative for China to improve agricultural resilience to climate change. Rural communities, often led by women, are using...
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The Rising Challenge of Dairy Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The abundance of milk, cheese, and egg on our kitchen tables are inseparable from the rise of large feed-grain-dependent dairies. In today’s global dairy industry, giant dairy farms are displacing...
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Building Back China’s Great Wetland Wall: Q&A with Paulson Institute Wetland...
Known as “Earth’s kidneys,” wetlands provide a variety of ecological benefits: habitats for diverse species, flood containment, pollutant purification, and carbon absorption. But in China, wetland loss...
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Powering a Low or High Carbon Future?
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) can significantly affect the country’s domestic and overseas energy transition and decarbonization agenda. Electricity projects in China’s BRI investments,...
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Can China’s Eco-Authoritarianism Lead Global Climate Action?
In a time where climate action is urgent, there are debates how China’s “eco-authoritarianism” can move climate and environmental policies faster than in liberal democracies. Although...
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Chinese Rail Export’s Environmental Dilemma: Economic Gains or Green?
Many developing countries today face the dual challenges of development and decarbonization, racing against climate change that makes the latter increasingly urgent. This dilemma brings China’s railway...
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All You Can Eat: Unlocking Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential in China’s...
China’s power sector makes up the lion’s share of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, but rising methane emissions from rice farming and livestock, nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizers, and CO2...
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Shining a Light on China’s Hidden Waste Workers
The untold stories about waste are about invisible and vulnerable waste workers. China is no exception. The millions of Chinese migrant waste workers who recover 20% of the country’s urban waste are...
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From Animal Waste to Energy: A Climate Solution on Chinese Farms
A quiet agricultural revolution is on the horizon in parts of China. Innovative anaerobic digestion techniques are revolutionizing agriculture by transforming livestock manure into organic fertilizer...
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