In the recent five years, climate change has become one of the hottest hashtags across the world. If you ask a 3-year old kid in kindergarten or a sixty-year old doorkeeper, they both could talk something like “Climate change is making the world warmer because there’s more CO2 out there!” In fact, in most common …
Read More »When you move into a new house, do you know what the landscape used to be here? Have you ever cared about the past stories happened on the place where your house is at? While many people will say no to the questions above, there are some people, they call themselves “Vicious Women”, that cared …
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Read More »Through the lens of many western media, China sometimes plays a selfish role when it comes to carbon emission and sustainability. When we think of China, we see a country which has the most population and highest energy consumption in the world. It is also growing at the fastest speed in its economy. However, with …
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Read More »Have you ever heard of Net-Zero building? Do you think a building could operate normally without consuming any energy? You may give your answer without thinking for a second that this is impossible, since you learned that there should always be inputs and outputs to maintain the balance of energy at the first day of …
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Read More »When I was a kid, I usually helped my mom washed up the rice. However, every time I tried to dump the water after cleaned the rice, my mom always stopped me. Instead, she let me use the waste water to water our flowers. As a three-year old, I had no idea why my mom …
Read More »South-South cooperation Background: In 1978, the United Nations established the Unit for South–South Cooperation(UNSSC) to promote South–South trade and collaboration. Participants are mainly countries known as “Global South”, which are developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Member states in the cooperation build economic alliance to strengthen economic ties and facilitate trade. They also …
Continue reading China’s own efforts on reducing carbon emission–South-South Cooperation
Read More »Which seems more severe to you when you watch a weather forecast? A heavy rainfall or a hurricane? Will you stop kids from playing soccer when it’s a hot day? Do you know the word “zombie theory”? The answers to all the questions above lied in Dr. Marshall Shepherd’s speech. Dr. Shepherd has been working …
Read More »On Wednesday, Oct 25th, we held a mock UN climate change negotiations in our classroom. There are two major goals of our conference. First, representatives from each country/ organization should come out with numbers for the index related to greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions, including what year the emission will peak, what year the emission will begin …
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Read More »China, the biggest developing country, is one of the major sources that are contributing to greenhouse gas emission and climate change. But at the same time, it is also becoming one of the most influential leaders in promoting and calling upon attention to climate change issues. When we are talking about climate-related issues in China, …
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