Initially published in REDSTAR Magazine, Qingdao, China. The first time a journalist friend of mine recommended to me this book, … More
Category: Environmental, urban, and climate change
Gender inequality: taking stock and looking into 2022
Originally published at: http://www.climads.wordpress.com. By Jieling Liu, Tainan Messina, Fronika de Wit, Patrícia Silvério, Sofia Castelo We recently came across … More
How China Undergoes Energy Reforms with Oversea Investments on Renewables (Part 2)
6. Motivations for Outward Investment 6.1. From the GovernmentThe principal motivation for Chinese enterprises to invest in the international market … More
How China Undergoes Energy Reforms with Oversea Investments on Renewables (Part 1)
Introduction Under the severe threat of air pollution and the concern of global warming, China launched an ambitious energy reform … More
Health as a global public good – An essential reframing for poverty measurement and a more balanced view on sustainability
1. The flawed and antiquated international poverty line We have learnt from COVID-19 that the key is to ‘flatten the … More
COVID-19 shows us the need to plan urban green spaces more systemically for urban health and wellbeing
Urban green spaces should be treated as an invaluable common-pool resource for common health and wellbeing for that one’s use … More
Elinor Ostrom: Nobel wisdom on local climate solutions
“Professor Ostrom?” “Yes.” “This is Adam Smith, calling from Stockholm.” “Oh, you have quite a name!” … The phone call … More
Lesson from WUF9: Comping with complexity for urban health and sustainable development
It is a common question we ask ourselves when visiting a new city: Can I imagine living here? Some people … More
Ethics, truth and political science
The environmental crisis that we are facing today, to a certain degree, reflect the disintegration of our traditional ethical standards … More
The prosperity of human society and the anthropogenic environmental crisis
I read the editorial: Environment: Fighting to Save Earth From Man, a Time Magazine and CNN collaboration published on 02 … More