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New Study Shows Fewer Than 15% of China’s Coal Power Plant Workers Can Easily Transition to Green Jobs by 2060

Study published in One Earth shows less than 15% of China’s coal power plant workforce will find it easy to shift into green jobs, a coal power worker needs to travel 194…

Nov 6, 2024

New Grant: Exploring Energy Burden Among the Older Adults and People with Disabilities in New York City Public Housing Communities

Gang He, Kaifang Luo, Hilary Botein, and Frank Heiland were awarded a SSA grant

Nov 1, 2024

Baruch College Faculty Included in World’s Top Scientist List

Dr. Gang He is included in Stanford University and Elsevier’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists” list for 2024

Oct 22, 2024

Taking a Global Look at Dry and Alternative Water Cooling of Power Plants

Study published in Nature Water suggests integrating planning may reduce carbon emissions in the future

Aug 9, 2023

Global Collaboration is Key to Saving Billions for Solar Module Production

Study published in Nature quantifies for the first time past and future country cost savings to the solar industry from globalized supply chains.

Oct 26, 2020

Energy Transition Away from Coal in China Will Yield Benefits

In a perspective paper published in One Earth, an international scientific team contends that China needs to transition away from coal to help the world achieve global…

Aug 21, 2020

Study Shows Decrease in Renewable Energy Costs May Serve as an Accelerator for Clean Energy Expansion

The study reveals fast decarbonization is both technically feasible and economically beneficial, which offers the prospect of large emissions mitigation with a global…

Jun 1, 2020

NSF Wokshop on Data Science Across the Undergraduate Curriculum

On January 9-10, 2020, we hosted the NSF funded workshop entitled “Data Science Across the Undergraduate Curriculum: University-Industry Online Case Studies on Applications…

Jan 19, 2020
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What the U.S.-China Agreement Means for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The two nations announced limited steps to address climate change. But even a modest agreement could have far-reaching effects.

Nov 16, 2023

Can the U.S. and China Cooperate on Green Technology Again?

A study published in Nature last year found that if the United States, Germany, and China all decided to shift to fully domestic solar production starting in 2020, by 2030…

Sep 21, 2023

How Biden’s made-in-America solar strategy may backfire

A new study in Nature concludes that policies similar to ones the administration is considering could make solar panels 30 percent more expensive by the end of the decade.

Oct 27, 2022

New energy transition guidance; Five coal plants approved; Energy-efficiency targets raised

Gang He told Carbon Brief: “There are other and better options: renewables are achieving grid parity which could accelerate a renewable-dominant pathway. Such a pathway is…

Feb 17, 2022

China creates vast research infrastructure to support ambitious climate goals

Carbon-neutrality institutes, and other initiatives to support a pledge to achieve net zero by 2060, are popping up like mushrooms across China.

Nov 22, 2021

How China could be carbon neutral by mid-century

Nature special report examines the role of renewables, nuclear power and carbon capture in reaching this ambitious goal.

Oct 19, 2020

China Says It Will Stop Releasing CO2 within 40 Years

The surprise announcement vaults the country ahead of U.S. climate ambitions and could encourage developing countries to follow suit.

Sep 23, 2020

Plummeting Renewable Energy, Battery Prices Mean China Could Hit 62% Clean Power And Cut Costs 11% By 2030

New research shows plummeting clean energy prices mean China could reliably run its grids on at least 62% non-fossil electricity generation by 2030, while cutting costs 11%…

Aug 10, 2020

Surging coal use in China threatens global CO2 goals

The fast decrease in the cost of solar, wind and storage, and technological innovation has fundamentally changed the economics of renewables, said Gang He, our analysis…

Jun 9, 2020

China’s Path to Clean Energy May Be Smoother than We Previously Thought

A new paper in the journal Nature Communications says the probable reality is much better than we previously thought, largely because of falling costs of wind, solar and…

Jun 4, 2020

Bill Calls For An Emissions-Free NY By 2050

In addition to policy, technology, there are also behavior components to that. How we incentivize people to change their behavior and their lifestyle.

Feb 18, 2019

Where is the world’s greenest city?

In a 2015 study published in the journal Ecological Indicators, scientists based at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California have fine-tuned a potential…

Apr 2, 2015
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