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2025-09
Annual Report 2025 for Carbon Dioxide Emission Accounts of Global Emerging Economies
The Report for CO2 Emission Accounts of Global Emerging Economies has been published for five consecutive years as an important reference on energy consumption and CO2 emissions in emerging economies, providing strong data support and guidance for their low-carbon transition. In the new report, the Carbon Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) continue to monitor the developments in energy cons...
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2025-09
2025 Climate Finance Training Program Launched at THU
On the morning of 1 September, the “South-South Cooperation 2025 Climate Finance Training Program” opened at Tsinghua University under the guidance of the Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, and organized by the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy (3E) of Tsinghua. Twenty-eight senior government officials, technical experts and policy researche...
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2025-08
2025 International Forum on Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation held
The 2025 International Forum on Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) was successfully held in Beijing from June 27-29.Li Luming, President of Tsinghua University; Dai Gang, Director General of the Department of International Cooperation at China’s Ministry of Science and Technology; Zou Hui, Deputy Director General of the Department of Science, Technology and Informatizat...
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2025-07
Research Team from Tsinghua University’s “Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST)” Multilateral Cooperati...
A recent study by the “Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST)” multilateral cooperation project team at Tsinghua University and collaborators explored the combined effects of coal power capacity control and renewable energy expansion on China’s net-zero strategy. The research developed a coupled analytical framework based on the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM) and a...
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2025-06
Research Teams Led by Zhang Qiang and Tong Dan at Tsinghua University Develop Global Climate Resilience Strategies for Wind-Sol...
Building a new power system dominated by renewable energy such as wind and solar power is a core technical pathway for promoting global clean energy transition and achieving the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Climate change increases the frequency of extreme weather events, which affect wind and solar power supply and electricity demand, thereby exacerbating the risk of supply-demand imb...
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2025-06
Interdisciplinary Team from Tsinghua University Proposes Novel Green Electricity-Direct Green Hydrogen Chemical Technology for ...
The chemical industry, especially ammonia and methanol production, remains a major challenge in achieving carbon neutrality due to its significant carbon footprint. An interdisciplinary research team from Tsinghua University’s Institute for Carbon Neutrality has proposed a innovative solution—the Green Flexible Chemical Electrification (GFCE) pathway. Published in Nature Energy under the titl...
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2025-06
Joint Research Team Led by Professor Lu Xi of Tsinghua University and Professor Cheng Fangqin of Shanxi University Makes Signif...
Recycling industrial waste resources is crucial for sustainable industrial development. The steel and coking industries contribute to approximately 30% of global industrial carbon emissions. Their by-products—high-temperature molten slag (1600°C) and process tail gases (containing CO/H₂/CH₄)—contain substantial thermal energy and hydrocarbon resources, yet their potential for synergistic ma...
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2025-05
CNEST Frontiers Seminar #6 on “Challenges and Opportunities in Global Net-Zero CO₂ Emissions” Successfully Held
The sixth session of the Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Frontiers Seminar was successfully hosted at Tsinghua University’s Institute for Carbon Neutrality on May 27. The event featured a keynote by Professor Michael Hood, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. He Kebin, CAE Academician...
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2025-05
Outlook on Industrial Low-carbon Technologies toward China's Carbon Neutrality Goal Report Released
The launch event for the report Outlook on Industrial Low-carbon Technologies toward China's Carbon Neutrality Goal was successfully held at Tsinghua University’s Institute for Carbon Neutrality on May 28. Jointly initiated by the Institute and supported by the Energy Foundation China, with the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP) as the lead author, the report brought together ove...
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2025-05
CNEST Frontiers Seminar #5 on “Over a Decade of Oil and Gas Methane Measurement” Successfully Held
The fifth session of the Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Frontiers Seminar was successfully held at Tsinghua University’s Institute for Carbon Neutrality on May 16. Dr. Xie Donglai, Senior Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Scientific Advisor to UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO), delivered a lecture titled “Over a Decade o...
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