China A view from somewhere: An alternative to globalised forms of climate knowledge December 14, 2018 0 By Xi Wang. A few years ago I was the grader in an undergraduate environmental policy course. The question that most students wanted the answer…
China Trash politics: Grassroots objection and the incineration boom in China December 13, 2018 0 By Yao Li. In recent years China has become one of the world’s largest producers of trash. With garbage piling up, the government has turned…
Belt and Road Initiative China and Japan – an unlikely climate partnership? December 13, 2018 0 By Chris G. Pope. On 7 October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report which focused on the devastating impacts of a…
Climate Change Infrastructure and the struggle to adapt to climate change in the Himalayas December 12, 2018 0 By Karine Gagné. In recent years, scholars have produced a number of critical studies on how communities adapt to climate change. Based on interventions developed…
Climate Change India and the 1.5°C warning: The power of political targets December 12, 2018 0 By Elizabeth Chatterjee. From the Paris Agreement’s 2°C collective mitigation goal to the EU’s 20-20-20 plan, numerical targets have become a hallmark of environmental governance.…
Energy Politics Energy security in Malaysia: Current and future scenarios December 11, 2018 0 By Saleh Shadman, Christina Chin M.M. and Novita Sakundarini. Energy security is one of the main concerns that lurks behind almost every country’s energy policy.…
Climate Change Is Malaysia doing enough to avoid 1.5°C of global warming? December 11, 2018 0 By Matthew Ashfold; Svenja Hanson; Jasmin Irisha Jim Ilham; Peter Moug; Vivek Thuppil. The Paris Agreement (PA) requires that the increase in global average temperature…
Asia Between the Devil and the IPCC: Cultural constraints to achieving 1.5°C warming December 10, 2018 0 By Laurie Parsons. As previous incarnations have arguably failed to do, the IPCC’s Special Report on 1.5°C warming resounded like the tolling of a funeral…
ASEAN The Long Read: A Southeast Asia perspective on climate change and negative emission technologies December 10, 2018 0 By David Taylor. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report (IPCC 2018) makes stark reading and raises potentially serious concerns, particularly for those…
China Chinese development finance and the Andean Amazonian infrastructure boom November 1, 2018 0 Written by Rebecca Ray. Diplomatic ties may be fraying between the US and China, but the United States' traditional economic partners in Latin America are…
