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China’s Yellow Sea Coastal Wetlands Inscribed as World Heritage Site

In a move encouraged by the Paulson Institute, delegates chose to inscribe the “Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase I)” as part of the World Heritage List...

Addressing Air Pollution on World Environment Day

Today, China is hosting World Environment Day, focusing on air pollution. The intention is to highlight the significant impact of air pollution worldwide and to urge governments, industry, communities and individuals to work together to improve...

World Migratory Bird Day: Protecting Birds from Harmful Plastic

May 11 is World Migratory Bird Day. Every year, one million waterbirds migrate from wintering grounds in the southern hemisphere to breeding grounds in the Arctic. Nearly all rely on the intertidal mudflats of China’s...

Insuring to Ensure Green Buildings

By Kevin Mo In March 2019, the Chaoyang District government in Beijing announced the historical signing of a green insurance contract for ensuring green performance of a commercial building. Less than two weeks later, another green insurance contract...

Dinny McMahon: “The Real Stimulus Choice in China”

“China Releases Green Industry Guidance Catalogue: Opportunities for US Business?”

Marking Earth Day 2019

“I declare this world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1836.  Anyone who has experienced wilderness, whether a rainforest in Borneo, the Masai Mara in Kenya,...

Damien Ma & Neil Thomas: “Who rules China? Representation on the NPC and Central Committee”

Damien Ma & Neil Thomas: “China Is Building the Batteries of the Future”

Training China’s Wetland Managers

A collaboration between the Convention on Wetlands Management Office of the People’s Republic of China, the Paulson Institute, Lao Niu Foundation, and WWF Hong Kong is strengthening capacity in wetland management, with positive results. Wetlands...