Tag: Harvard China Project

  • Nation & World

    What weighed on us in 2019? ‘Climate emergency’

    Harvard faculty reflect on 2019’s word of the year: “climate emergency.”

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    Looking to China for lessons on helping the poor

    Harvard scholar Nara Dillon is seeking lessons on poverty reduction from China’s success, part of Harvard’s long-running, broad engagement with the world’s most populous nation that continues over spring break when President Larry Bacow visits.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Studying environmental issues in China

    A group of Harvard undergraduatess interested in fighting environmental decline spent the summer studying China’s problems and working alongside scholars whose efforts are directed at a host of issues.

    4 minutes
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    Scholars greet Paris exit as multifaceted mistake

    Harvard experts look at different aspects of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.

    10 minutes
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    No cookie-cutter fixes on air pollution

    A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has called for additional research into the air pollution blanketing the world’s megacities, saying that solutions found in the developed world’s cities are not likely to apply in other places.

    4 minutes
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    Tackling carbon emissions in China

    A Beijing symposium co-sponsored by the Harvard China Project and the Harvard Global Institute explored the possibility of China adopting a carbon tax as a way to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The Gazette spoke with economist Dale Jorgenson, the Samuel W. Morris University Professor, and Chris Nielsen, the executive director of the China Project,…

    14 minutes
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    Gore sees progress on climate change

    Former Vice President Al Gore brought a dose of optimism about climate change to Harvard on April 7, saying the problems are severe, but the solutions are emerging.

    4 minutes
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    Colleges have ‘special’ role in fighting climate change

    Harvard President Drew Faust tells an audience at Tsinghua University in Beijing that universities have a unique and critical role to play in combatting climate change.

    7 minutes
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    Carbon tax for China?

    A new book by the Harvard China Project examines air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in the world’s largest nation, and uses both science and economics to propose possible solutions.

    4 minutes
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    Carbon counter

    Atmospheric scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Nanjing University have produced the first “bottom-up” estimates of China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, for 2005 to 2009, and the first statistically rigorous estimates of the uncertainties surrounding China’s CO2 emissions.

    5 minutes
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    China could meet its energy needs by wind alone

    A team of environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University has demonstrated the enormous potential for wind-generated electricity in China.

    4 minutes