On September 1, the 46th Carbon Neutrality Academic Salon, themed "Coordinated Pollution Reduction and Carbon Mitigation: Systems and Practices," was successfully held in Beijing. The event was hosted by the Institute for Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University(Tsinghua ICON) and organized by the China Clean Air Policy Partnership (CCAPP). The meeting was chaired by Researcher Lei Yu, Director...
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From September 19 to 21, the world's first megawatt-class high-altitude wind power system — the S1500 Floating Wind Power System (SAWES) — jointly developed by Tsinghua University's Department of Electrical Engineering, Linyiyunchuan, and the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS), successfully completed its maiden flight at the Naomaohu Base i...
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A new study led by researchers from Tsinghua University was published online in Nature as an Accelerated Article Preview on September 18. Titled “Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality,” the research focuses on the growing threat of wildfires—uncontrolled fires in forests, grasslands, and shrublands that lead to major disturbances to Earth’s environment. The...
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Editor's NoteOn September 21, the main forum of the 2025 Pujiang Innovation Forum was held in Shanghai. Wu Huaqiang, Vice President of Tsinghua University, stated at the forum that the "Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation"(CNEST) Program, initiated by Tsinghua University, has been approved for cultivation and project approval. It will join hands with many universities and large-s...
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From September 9 to 11, a delegation from Tsinghua University, led by Professor Guan Dabo, Vice Dean of the Institute for Carbon Neutrality(ICON), and Professor Liu Yunxin, Principal Researcher at the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), conducted an exchange visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The visit focused on in-depth discussions around energy transition, climate adaptation, and AI-enabl...
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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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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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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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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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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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