Forthcoming in the AER: "Trade with Correlation" by Nelson Lind and Natalia Ramondo. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

NEW policy brief by Cecilia Springer + coauthors finds estimated emissions for currently operating 🇨🇳Chinese-financed plants approx. equal the energy-related CO2 emissions from the entire country of 🇪🇸Spain or 🇹🇭Thailand on an annual basis. Read more: gdpcenter.org/3eVA7SI

A framework for using international trade flows and country-level factor costs to estimate intensity of innovation within countries over time and diffusion across countries, from Nelson Lind and Natalia Ramondo nber.org/papers/w30590

“We have the collective capacity to transform.” At #COP27, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley urged leaders to deliver on past promises to make a “definable difference in the lives of the people, we have an obligation to serve.”

NEW journal article by Cecilia Springer + coauthors explores methane emissions from 🇨🇳China’s fossil fuel industry compared with the 🇺🇸US + 🇨🇦Canada. Read more on the mechanisms, calculation methods, mitigation potential + abatement technologies: gdpcenter.org/3XQ3Hu6

Global methane emissions have increased by 10% in the past 20 years. In a new blog, Hua-Ke Chi discusses a recent study examining methane emissions from 🇨🇳China compared to those of the 🇺🇸US + 🇨🇦Canada. How do the 3️⃣ countries stack up? Read more: gdpcenter.org/3Vy9KBQ

🎥 In a recent webinar, Becky Ray Kevin P. Gallagher Cecilia Springer + Tarela Moses discussed the latest findings from the China’s Overseas Development Finance Database. Watch the recording + read a summary of the discussion: gdpcenter.org/3XeF3BW

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Global Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion" by Nelson Lind and Natalia Ramondo. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Led by Yangsiyu Lu, we have an important new paper out today that is one of the first to demonstrate the empirical outcomes of co-financed infrastructure projects. gdpcenter.org/3K9qAD0 Summary and findings 🧵:

$1 billion from the US to the #GreenClimateFund is in the news today, which is really good, if still not what the US pledged. It may set you to wondering: What does a fair contribution to the Green Climate Fund look like? A few yrs ago, we did the math👇 wri.org/data/green-cli…

In a new working paper, Joanna Lewis + Cecilia Springer present potential opportunities for 🇺🇸US-🇨🇳China engagement on development finance for overseas renewable energy. Read more: gdpcenter.org/3Aq3pzQ

Wonderful experience discussing economic interactions of emissions trading at the Energy Policy Seminar Belfer Center

Today I received my master’s degree in economics from BU Economics and was awarded the Master’s Prize for Academic Achievements!

Junior Fellow Kate Hua-Ke Chi and The Fletcher School Professor Maulik Jagnani assess the global stocktake, what it means for #COP28, and why there are signs of progress. Read their full article for The Conversation U.S.: theconversation.com/uns-global-sto…

🧵 Climate Policy Lab recently updated an expansive dataset that reports global public investments in energy research, development, and demonstration from 2000 to 2022. Junior Research Fellow Kate Hua-Ke Chi analyzes the new data in her latest #ClimateSmart blog: climatepolicylab.org/climatesmart/2…

NEW | "Global Public Energy RD&D Expenditures: Looking at Country-Specific Data" Junior Research Fellow Kate Hua-Ke Chi analyzes Climate Policy Lab's latest data on public energy RD&D spending patterns in the US, France, India, Japan, & South Africa 🧵⬇️ climatepolicylab.org/climatesmart/2…

NEW | "Water usage in cooling systems for electricity production: an event study of retrofitted coal-fired power plants in the United States" by Junior Research Fellow Kate Hua-Ke Chi and Professor Melissa McCracken Read their publication here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

In a new People's Map of Global China journal article, Kate Hua-Ke Chi + Becky Ray examine 🇨🇳China’s push to increase outbound investment in the aquaculture industry and host countries’ incentives for drawing in such investment. Read more: gdpcenter.org/3PFpVMN

Had the pleasure of presenting my working paper at #APSA2025 last week in Vancouver.

It’s not easy to give up fossil fuels, even in places where there is political leadership pushing for it. A look at how politics, economics and energy security concerns have kept the world hooked on coal, oil and gas (thread) ⬇️ buff.ly/p3Q03pQ