China exceeds all other countries in annual energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The carbon intensity of China’s economy (i.e., the carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP) is also relatively high due to the use of abundant and low-cost domestic coal resources. Given massive domestic coal reserves, China uses more than half and produces […]
While continued fossil fuel development puts existing assets at risk of exceeding the capacity compatible with limiting global warming below 2°C, plant conversions and new abatement technologies may allow for a smoother transition. In a new journal article published in Nature Communications, Yangsiyu Lu, Francois Cohen, Stephen M. Smith and Alexander Pfeiffer quantify the impact […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ten years ago, the medical community received conclusive results demonstrating that antiretroviral therapy (ART) is effective at preventing the sexual transmission of HIV. ART has traditionally been used to manage HIV symptoms in people living with the virus, but the strategy of treating HIV-positive individuals with ART to prevent transmission—a strategy known as treatment-as-prevention (TasP)—has […]
By Emanne Khan Although women have made remarkable strides in the professional world, the gender pay gap stubbornly persists. On average, American women earned 84 cents for every dollar men earned in 2020, a disparity that has remained relatively consistent over the past 15 years, according to the Pew Research Center. Although a substantial body […]