NewSecurityBeat Blogs authored

• China’s “New Energy Cloud”

• Decarbonization in the United States and China: Fast and Furious Enough?

• Would You Like a Bag (Ban) with That?

• Turning the Tide: How Can Indonesia Close the Loop on Plastic Waste?

• Aiming for A World Where Everything Is Circular: Q&A with Indonesia Plastic Bag Diet Cofounder Tiza Mafira

• Turning off the Tap: Plastic Sachets and Producer Responsibility in Southeast Asia

Guest Blogs solicited & edited

• World’s Nations Commit to Ending Plastic Waste

• The Dirt on Agricultural Plastic Pollution of the Soil in the U.S. and China

• Have Wetlands Will Travel: Migratory Birds Benefit from Habitat Conservation in China

• Reducing the Environmental and Social Costs of Chinese Investments in Pakistan

• Imagine a Future Without Single-Use Plastics

• The Climate Footprint of Plastics and the Need for a Global Solution

• To Build or Not to Build: Western Route of China’s South-North Water Diversion Project

• Community-managed Water Investments in Rural China: A Path for Financing WASH

• “Green” China on the Global Stage

• China’s Race to 77.6: Is a Target-based COVID-19 Campaign a Model for Climate Response?

• China’s Coercive Greening Policies

• Aquaculture Fish Feed – Can China and the U.S Break the Ocean Connection?

• A Tale of Two Snails: Biodiversity Threats of Invasive Species in the United States and China

• China and U.S. Aquaculture Open Doors to Invaders

• Aquaculture is Fishing to Gut Plastic Waste—In The United States and China

• The Circular Business Models Behind Indonesia’s Reuse Revolution

• The Over-whale-ming Plastic Problem

• A Dangerous Taste for Plastic in the Ocean Depths

• Seeking Global Action on Plastic

• The World Is Your Oyster and Your Plastic Pollution Is Getting Into It

Public Panels organized

• Women Firing Up Plastic Waste Action in Vietnam

• Locking in a High-Carbon Future: Chinese Steel, Cement and Coal Investments at Home and Abroad

• The Wilson China Fellowship Conference 2022

• Unpacking the U.S. Role in Global Plastic Waste: A Green Tea Chat with the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Margaret Spring

• Inspiring Environmental Good Through Games

• Walking the Walk After the New U.S.-China Climate Declaration

• The Climate Footprint of Plastics: Search for Solutions in Asia, Europe, and the United States

• Super Grids and Power Reforms: Unlocking China’s Clean Energy Transition

• China’s Painful Transition to a Clean Energy Future

• Partnerships and Business Innovation to Rein in Plastic Waste in the US and China

• Waste Management in the Shadows in China

• Innovative Technologies and Citizen Science to Combat Plastic Waste in the Mekong and Beyond

• Plastic Waste Flooding into Science Fiction: A Green Tea Chat with author Stanley Chen

• On the Frontline of Indonesia’s Plastic Waste Crisis

• CEF Green Tea Chat with Daru and Prigi from ECOTON

• From Sea to See -- How Satellites Can Help Identify and Combat Plastic Marine Debris

• The Plastic First Mile -- Closing the Loop on Plastic Waste in Asia

• CEF Green Tea Chat with Neil Tangri

• China’s Coercive Environmentalism

• Problematic Plastics Series: Can Grassroots Action and EPR Law Stem the Tide of Single-Use Plastics in Asia?

Major Publications led

• InsightOut Issue 7 - Turning the Tide: How Can Indonesia Close the Loop on Plastic Waste?

• Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China “China’s Environmental Challenges & U.S. Responses”

• Plastic Rivers: A Roadmap for US-Japan Cooperation on Reducing Plastic Waste in Asia (forthcoming)

Scoping Reports researched

• China’s growing impact on global fisheries: 2021 outlook - Walton Family Foundation

• Turning the Tide Japanese-U.S. Partnerships to Slow Ocean Plastic Pollution in Southeast Asia - Japan Foundation, CGP

• EPR the Game Changer for Plastic Packaging Waste in the U.S. and China - Japan Foundation, CGP

• Vulnerable Deltas in Southeast Asia: Climate Change, Water Pollution, and Socio-Economic Transformation - Luce Foundation (forthcoming)