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Nepal’s Latest Disaster Signals a Need to Redesign Monitoring and Early...
This piece was adapted from an earlier Stimson Center Commentary, “A Cascading Disaster on the China–Nepal Border: What to Know About the August 2026 Rasuwa Flood, 72 Hours Later,” and updated to...
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Can the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol Accelerate the HFC Transition?
As challenges to global climate security policy durability and effectiveness mount, it is easy to take the most successful policy to date for granted. Nearly four decades after its launch, the 1987...
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Environmental Security Weekly Watch August 23-27, 2026
A window into what we’re reading at the Stimson Center’s Environmental Security Program Mozambique’s Mineral Sands Reveal Heavy Extraction (Mongabay) Across Mozambique, heavy mineral sands have been...
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Environmental Security Weekly Watch August 17-21, 2026
A window into what we’re reading at the Stimson Center’s Environmental Security Program Indonesia: A Hotspot for Abuses linked to Chinese Mineral Investment (Mongabay) A new report reveals that...
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China Greens the Global South: A Double-Edged Sword?
No matter how it finally ends, the conflict with Iran likely will drive up green technology profits for China. The war also seems certain to have a lasting energy impact on the many Global South...
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Mining in the Shadows: Spiraling Rare Earth Pollution in Laos
In April 2026, a missing herd of cows in the northeast mountains of Laos set off a confrontation between villagers and a Chinese rare earth mining company. The villagers in Houaphanh Province had been...
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No Home in the Dark: Creating an All-Inclusive Rooftop Solar Ecosystem in China
Last fall, I travelled back to my hometown in rural Wen’an County, Hebei Province, and was surprised to find my aunt Lu had installed 12 solar panels on the roof of her house. Because I am a...
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Current Geopolitics Shift Deep-Sea Mining Debates
This article was originally published as a commentary by the Stimson Center. If anyone needed a signal of global interest in critical minerals and supply chains, the events in Washington D.C. earlier...
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From the Forests of Yunnan: Rethinking What Tea Can Be
“Where is the tea?” I asked after our class had hiked through densely wooded hills for half an hour, looking around in confusion. I was among a team of Duke Kunshan University (DKU) graduate students...
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Can China Help Indonesia Shift Gears on Electric Two-wheelers?
Indonesia produces more than half of the world’s nickel output – a critical component in batteries for four- and two-wheel electric vehicles (EVs). Mostly Chinese-owned smelters work around the clock...
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Is China’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Ready to Take Off?
Aviation is one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions globally, contributing around 2.5% of total global CO₂ emissions. In China, aviation contributes about 12% of the nation’s...
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AidData’s Myth-Busting China Report
China’s expanding global loan portfolio gives Beijing extraordinary economic and strategic leverage as it competes with the United States on technology, global supply chains, and critical rare...
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Environmental Security Weekly Watch: December 8-12, 2025
A window into what we’re reading at the Stimson Center’s Environmental Security Program Race for Copper Damages Protected Region in Colombia (Mongabay) As Colombia looks to meet the growing demand for...
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Chinese Electric Cars Are Leaving American Automakers in the Dust
Ford’s CEO was so impressed by the Xiaomi SU7 that he now uses it as his daily driver. The Chinese-made electric vehicle (EV) has a 345-mile driving range on a single charge and costs just $30,000....
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China Taps Indonesia’s Solar Potential
In late 2023, Indonesia’s then President Joko Widodo presided over the launch of the country’s first floating solar power plant on the Cirata reservoir in West Java. Widodo touted how at 192MW it was...
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From Animal Waste to Energy: A Climate Solution on Chinese Farms
A quiet agricultural revolution is on the horizon in parts of China. Innovative anaerobic digestion techniques are revolutionizing agriculture by transforming livestock manure into organic fertilizer...
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Shining a Light on China’s Hidden Waste Workers
The untold stories about waste are about invisible and vulnerable waste workers. China is no exception. The millions of Chinese migrant waste workers who recover 20% of the country’s urban waste are...
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All You Can Eat: Unlocking Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential in China’s...
China’s power sector makes up the lion’s share of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, but rising methane emissions from rice farming and livestock, nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizers, and CO2...
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Chinese Rail Export’s Environmental Dilemma: Economic Gains or Green?
Many developing countries today face the dual challenges of development and decarbonization, racing against climate change that makes the latter increasingly urgent. This dilemma brings China’s railway...
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Can China’s Eco-Authoritarianism Lead Global Climate Action?
In a time where climate action is urgent, there are debates how China’s “eco-authoritarianism” can move climate and environmental policies faster than in liberal democracies. Although...
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