Why the Financial Services Sector Will Need to Embrace ESG
After the 2020 global pandemic, ESG investing has slowly started taking over the financial landscape. Even those who claimed it was just a passing...
China’s Energy Crisis Shows Just How Hard it Will Be to Reach Net Zero
By Jun Du
As the world prepares to discuss more aggressive cuts to carbon emissions at the UN’s COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, China has just sent...
China’s Position on Climate Change – Truly Sustainable?
By Kerry Brown and Benjamin Barratt
Back in 2009, the world would not have thought that China will be taking a leadership role in humanity’s...
What’s Lies Ahead for China’s Urban Waste Landscape?
By Jonas Törnblom
China’s rapid pace of urbanisation remains at full throttle. Mass urbanisation generates mass waste volumes and the physical limitations associated with how...
China Must Boost Social Sustainability in Order to Meet its Carbon Reduction Targets
By Jonas Törnblom
China has achieved a significant amount in only a few decades, more than any other country in history; however the challenges the...
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Light in the Pandemic Tunnel
By Dan Steinbock
As the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are only one quarter away, China is preparing for extraordinary games in the most challenging time. ...
China just stunned the world with its step-up on climate action – and the...
By Hao Tan, Elizabeth Thurbon, John Mathews, and Sung-Young Kim
China’s President Xi Jinping surprised the global community recently by committing his country to net-zero...
The Challenge of Frugal and Greener Winter Olympics
By Dan Steinbock
Recently, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the 2022 Winter Games to Beijing, in a joint bid with the city of Zhangjiakou,...
How Special Soil Observatories in China are Helping to Create More Sustainable Agriculture
By Paul Hallett, Ganlin Zhang, Larissa Naylor, and Weikai Wang
All over the world, agriculture is threatened by degraded soils. Stripped of carbon from intensive farming,...
Vegan Diet Has Just 30% Of the Environmental Impact of a High-Meat Diet, Major...
By Michael Clark and Keren Papier
We know that meat has a substantial impact on the planet, and that plant-based diets are more environmentally...
