A research team led by Professor Li Zheng from the Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality Strategy Research Center at Tsinghua University's Institute for Carbon Neutrality and the Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, in collaboration with researchers from Princeton University and Saudi Aramco, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the design of renewable energy-driven hy...
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A research team led by Professors Li Zheng and Liu Pei from the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at Tsinghua University, in collaboration with researchers from Princeton University and supported by the Low-Carbon Energy and CCUS Research Center at Tsinghua's Institute for Carbon Neutrality, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the synergistic and large-scale deployment of green ...
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As China enters the critical planning phase for its 14th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), urgent questions arise: How can the pace of comprehensive green transformation be accelerated? What pathways will ensure a greener future for the world?Addressing these core global concerns, the latest episode of the documentary series "Global Challenges, Tsinghua Solutions," titled "Accelerating Comprehensive ...
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In a recent announcement of prestigious awards, two major projects led by teams from Tsinghua University's Institute for Carbon Neutrality and the Department of Energy and Power Engineering have received top-tier recognition.The project “Mechanism of Shock Wave-Shear Layer Interaction in Supersonic Jets and Ejection Control Methods,” jointly completed with Xi'an Jiaotong University, was award...
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A research team led by Associate Professor Cai Wenjia from the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University and the Joint Pollution Control and Carbon Reduction Research Center at the Institute for Carbon Neutrality has published a cover article in Nexus, an interdisciplinary journal by Cell Press. Titled “Multidimensional inequality embedded in the gains and losses from China's c...
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Constructing a new power system dominated by renewable energy is a critical pathway to achieving carbon neutrality. As the share of fluctuating renewable energy sources like wind and solar PV rapidly increases, so does the demand for flexible regulation within the power system. Hydropower and pumped storage hydropower (PSH), with their ability to regulate power supply over time through reservoi...
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Recently, H E Mr Scott Dewar, Australian Ambassador to China, led a delegation to visit the Institute for Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University. The delegation held a symposium with Professor He Kebin, Dean of the Institute. Also in attendance were experts from the Institute and its various research centers, including Professor Guan Dabo, Professor Lu Xi, Associate Professor Zhang Da, Associ...
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Tropical forests, storing nearly half of the Earth's aboveground biomass carbon, are a critical component of the global carbon cycle. However, their biodiversity, carbon stock stability, and ecosystem services are increasingly threatened by human land-use activities, fires, and extreme climate events. Due to high spatial heterogeneity, diverse disturbance types, and complex recovery processes w...
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Recently, a research team led by Professor Wang Shuxiao from the Joint Pollution Control and Carbon Reduction Research Center at Tsinghua University's Institute for Carbon Neutrality and the School of Environment has constructed the world's first global inventory of full-volatility organic compound emissions from wildfires. By integrating the latest wildfire emission test results, the study qua...
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On December 30, the Ministry of Education of China announced the winners of the 2025 Excellent Scientific Research Achievement Awards (Natural Sciences and Engineering Technology). The project titled “Theory and Methodology for Analysis and Optimization of Low-Carbon Power Systems,” led by Professor Kang Chongqing, Chief Scientist of the New Power System Research Center at Tsinghua University...
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