?The China Launch Event of the 2023 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
The 2023 China Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (China Report) was recently launched in Beijing. This report was authored by 76 experts from 26 major institutions both domestically and internationally, led by the Lancet Countdown Regional Centre for Asia based in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University. The Vice President of Tsinghua University, ...-
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?2023 Global Youth Climate Week to advance youth-led climate action
The 2023 Global Youth Climate Week was launched on November 20th, marking the commencement of a five-day spectacular journey led by young people worldwide dedicated to advancing global climate action. The Global Youth Climate Week Launching Ceremony was organized by the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC) at Tsinghua University. Scheduled a week ahead of each COP, this internation...
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Competition promotes low-carbon development
The 4th “THU-PKU Low-Carbon Campus Design Game” was recently held at Peking University, with the theme “Healthier Planet, Healthier People”.The event displayed the outcomes of two courses – Tsinghua University’s "Handmade Innovation Practice" and Peking University’s "Sustainable Campus Practice".In the speech titled “How Design Contributes to the Dual Carbon Goals”, Professor Liu Xin f...
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Supply chain disruptions will further exacerbate economic losses from climate change
Global GDP loss from climate change will increase exponentially the warmer the planet gets when its cascading impact on global supply chains is factored in, finds a new study led by researchers of Tsinghua University.The study, published in Nature, is the first to chart “indirect economic losses” from climate change on global supply chains (GVCs) that will affect regions that would have been ...
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?Professor Shuxiao Wang's team from the School of Environment at Tsinghua University has established a global anthropogenic emission inventory of full-volatility organic compounds
Traditional global emission inventories classify primary organic emissions into non-volatile organic carbon and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). However, information about volatility distribution and overlook the emissions of a significant amount of intermediate-volatility and semi-volatile organic compounds (IVOCs and SVOCs, respectively) is still lacking. Professor Shuxiao Wang's team from ...
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