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…
Asia The long read: From the Anthropocene to the Urbanocene: Understanding Asia’s rural out-migration and global climate change December 14, 2018 0 By Tun Myint In addition to natural cycles of change, global climate change is driven by individual behaviours of consumption and life-style dynamics, which are…
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.…
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 China’s energy security: the transition towards a green energy system May 22, 2018 0 Written by Jørgen Delman. China’s energy security strategy prioritizes maximum self-sufficiency. But the country’s primary energy self-sufficiency rate has been going down since the early…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s energy revolution strategy March 30, 2018 0 Written by Manish Vaid. There has been a visible shift from China being portrayed as a giant energy buyer to a rising energy seller. Accordingly,…
