By Xinyue Ma At the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this September, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced China would increase support for other developing countries in green and low-carbon energy and would not build new coal-fired power plants abroad. As the Group of 20 (G20) made similar commitments soon after in October 2021 to […]
The 1972 World Heritage Convention (WHC) and 1994 Global Strategy aim to preserve the outstanding universal value of internationally important cultural and natural sites within a “representative, balanced and credible” network of highly-protected areas. Increasing human pressures and shortfalls in representation have been documented across the World Heritage network, particularly in terrestrial and cultural sites, […]
As 2021 comes to a close and the world faces another year battling COVID-19, experts from our Global Economic Governance Initiative look back on the policy progress – and shortcomings – for the year, and highlight what to keep an eye on for 2022. Below, read key takeaways on vaccine equity, sovereign debt, global financial […]
By Bridgette Lang Over the past four months, the Fall 2021 Global China Initiative Research Colloquium has brought scholars from around the world together for a webinar series on topics related to Chinese investment, overseas financing, energy and development. In September 2021, Ying Qian kicked off the series by presenting a new working paper on […]
By Emanne Khan The mission of the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) is to advance interdisciplinary research on the role of human capital in human development to inform policy solutions to global challenges including poverty, women’s empowerment and sustainable economic growth through investments in education and health. In Fall 2021, HCI’s Core Faculty Members published a suite of […]
In the wake of the global financial crisis, economic research has shown that regulating cross-border financial flows helped prevent and mitigate financial crises. This research played a role in the political economy of the post-crisis governance architecture where the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Group of Twenty (G20) and other international bodies recommitted policy frameworks to […]
By Emanne Khan For scholars engaged in long-term research, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has complicated everything from data collection to travel. As the pandemic has stretched on for nearly two years, it has become part of daily life and researchers are learning to work within the constraints of the pandemic and when able, cautiously resume […]
When it comes to the provision of global public goods, the two largest and most systemically connected countries in the world must work in parallel at minimum and together at optimum in order to achieve and maintain a more equal, stable and sustainable global economy. This is not to ignore the fact that the two […]
Raging hurricanes, devastating floods, sea-level rise, heatwaves, and other extreme weather conditions are now attributed to climate change. In a new article published in the Journal of Impact and ESG Investing, Sucharita Gopal, Joshua Pitts, Kalyani Inampudi, Yingqiang Xu and Graham Cook propose that climate change poses a significant investment risk in terms of economic losses […]
Generating 38.5 percent of the global electricity supply, coal-fired power plants are the largest contributors to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the power sector. The development of these plants represents the tradeoffs and tensions between expanding and improving electricity supply, while reducing CO2 emissions, as embodied in the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Goal […]