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2024-11
CGTN | Tsinghua's Teng Fei: Who Should Pay for the Planet's Future?
The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opened in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 11. This year’s conference aims to advance the negotiation of a new collective quantified goal on climate finance and achieve a balanced package of outcomes on mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement regarding glob...
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2024-11
UK-China Climate and Carbon Neutrality Workshop Held in London
The UK-China Research and Innovation Workshop on Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality successfully took place in London on November 6, bringing together leading academics from Tsinghua University, UCL, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and Reading University, alongside representatives from research and innovation agencies in both countries. The workshop facilitated in-depth dialogue on advanc...
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2024-10
2024 World Laureates Association Forum "Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation"（CNEST) Sub-Forum Successfully Held...
The "Basic Science and Interdisciplinary Frontiers Forum: Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation"(CNEST), a key segment of the 2024 World Laureates Association(WLA) Forum, was successfully held in Shanghai. The event gathered leading scientists to address the critical challenge of transforming global energy systems to achieve climate goals.Chaired by Professor He Kebin, a Chinese Ac...
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2024-10
Solar savings are heating up for homeowners
Residential rooftop solar is likely to make increasing financial sense, say Tsinghua researchers.Installing solar panels on residential roofs is an increasingly sound investment, researchers in China and the US have shown.Within the lifespan of today’s solar panels, the value of a solar system to household budgets could grow by 19%, equating to significant power bill savings, says the authors ...
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2024-10
2024 Global Carbon Neutrality Annual Progress Report Released in Beijing
On October 17, 2024, the 2024 Global Carbon Neutrality Annual Progress Report, which was led and compiled by Tsinghua University's Institute for Carbon Neutrality and School of Environment, was released in Beijing.As of May 2024, 148 countries around the world had made explicit commitments on carbon neutrality. All 198 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had imp...
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2024-10
CNEST Frontiers Seminar #3 on “Energy Transition in the U.S. and Beyond” Successfully Held
The third session of the Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Frontiers Seminar was successfully hosted at Tsinghua University’s Institute for Carbon Neutrality on October 15. The event featured a lecture by Professor Daniel S. Cohan from Rice University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, titled “Energy Transition in the U.S. and Beyond.”Professor Coh...
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2024-08
Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Seminar held in Huzhou
On August 15, the Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Seminar was held during the 2024 Green Low-Carbon Innovation Conference in Huzhou. The seminar aimed to explore the theme of energy system transformation towards carbon neutrality, promote the multilateral cooperation program “Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST)” initiated by Tsinghua Universit...
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2024-06
CNEST Frontiers Seminar #2 on “Energy System Transformation and Advancing Climate Solutions” Successfully Held
The second session of the Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Frontiers Seminar was successfully held at Tsinghua University’s Institute for Carbon Neutrality on June 21. The event featured a presentation by Ms. Loan K. Tran, Global Greenhouse Gas Policy Manager at ExxonMobil, titled “Energy System Transformation and Advancing Climate Solutions.”Ms. Tran introduced Exx...
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2024-06
Tsinghua professor Kang Chongqing wins IEEE PES Peter W. Sauer Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award（Graduate）
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently announced the PES Society-Level Awards. Kang Chongqing, the chief scientist in new-type power system research center of ICON, and a professor in Tsinghua’s Department of Electrical Engineering, won the IEEE PES Peter W. Sauer Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award (Graduate) for his contribution to education and mentor...
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2024-05
The ICON jointly organized the 2024 Nature Conference on “Air Pollution and Climate Change”
From May 22 to 24, the “Air Pollution and Climate Change” conference jointly organized by the Institute for Carbon Neutrality of Tsinghua University（ICON, Tsinghua）, the School of Environment of Tsinghua University, and several journals of Nature was held in Beijing. More than 300 experts and scholars from domestic and foreign universities and research institutions such as China, the United...
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