Measured Insights
The latest blog posts from our research projects.
Making Sense of China’s Drop in Coal Use
This post originally appeared on Scientific American. Photo credit: Chinese coal-fired power planet Wikimedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 license This post was co-written and compiled by Angel Hsu, Andrew Moffat and Kaiyang Xu. China last week released its draft 13th Five-Year...
Launch of ‘Third-Wave’ Environmental Data in China
When it comes to our most pressing environmental challenges, much of the data needed to take effective action are missing. Water quality, recycling rates, toxic chemical exposures, land degradation – assessing these environmental issues is hampered by the lack of...
Which Countries are the Best and Worst Stewards of the Planet?
This post originally appeared on Scientific American. Photo credit: A forest in Madagascar has been slashed and burned for planting corn By Frank Vassen/Flickr under Creative Commons license. This post was co-written and compiled by Don Mosteller, Amy Weinfurter, and...
After Paris: The Next Steps for City, State, Regional, and Business Climate Action
This December's Paris Climate Conference marked a turning point not just for international climate negotiations, but also for the growing leadership of cities, states, regions, businesses, investors, and civil society organizations. On December 4, 2015, over 400...
2016 Environmental Rankings Show Declining Air Quality and Collapsing Fish Stocks
Photo by Nicolò Lazzati on Flickr.com. This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. By Angel Hsu and Carlin Rosengarten Last year was the hottest year on record -- and by a wide margin, too. By early summer atmospheric CO2 concentrations silently ticked past...
Data Transparency: New Dynamic at COP-21 in Paris
By Angel Hsu, Andrew Moffat, and Kaiyang Xu. This post originally appeared on ChinaFAQs. From the Paris Climate Negotiations The international climate agreement reached at the recent 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Inaugural 1 Gigaton Coalition Report at COP21 Assesses Potential of Developing Country Efforts Towards Climate Mitigation
By Yaping Cheng and Angel Hsu The 1 Gigaton Coalition, which was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, launched its inaugural report on December 7 at COP-21 in Paris. The Yale Data-driven...
New Report Demonstrates Local Actors’ Contribution to Global Climate Action
Speaking at Sciences Po University on December 8, former California Governor Schwarzenegger recounted the state’s fight to implement fuel standards that went beyond federal targets. Some people, he recalled, advised California to wait for the national government. “To...
Assessing the Wider World of Non-state and Sub-national Climate Action
Cities, states, regions, companies and investors are taking actions to address climate change. The scope of these actions is broad, covering hundreds of jurisdictions and encompassing a significant fraction of the global economy. Citizens, too, are mobilizing through...
1 Gigaton Coalition Launches Inaugural Report, Yale Researchers Lead Authors
The inaugural report of the 1 Gigaton Coalition, Narrowing the Emissions Gap: Contributions from renewable energy and energy efficiency activities, is now available. This study details the emissions saved after analysing nearly 6,000 renewable energy and energy...
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