Book Review: When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China will save mankind – or destroy it

Initially published in REDSTAR Magazine, Qingdao, China. The first time a journalist friend of mine recommended to me this book, … More

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