Research Briefs

AVIATION CURRENTLY CONTRIBUTES ABOUT 2.5% OF GLOBAL CARBON EMISSIONS, and with air travel demand expected to double by 2040, cutting those emissions has become a pressing priority. One promising path forward is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), a low...

Harvard-China Project: Oliver, can you share the name of your project, and what you researched while in China? Oliver Lontay: This summer I worked with the Harvard China Project at Nanjing University on a project about the growth of China’s data center...

Research finds anti-desertification measures needed in tandem with emission reductions
 By Leah Burrows | View the article on the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences website Climate change is a global phenomenon, but its impacts are...

Andres Hernandez Gonzalez '24, a mechanical engineering concentrator at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been an undergraduate researcher with the Harvard-China Project for more than two years. He earned a spot in the...

Research identifies patterns to predict co-occurrence of heat and ozone extremes in China months By Leah Burrows, SEAS Communications High temperatures exacerbate ground-level ozone production, resulting in a deadly combination of extreme heat and poor...

Each year the MIT Technology Review scours the globe for the best and brightest young innovators, pioneers, inventors and humanitarians; each spring, they unveil their curated “Innovators Under 35” (TR35) list of their honorees. Their TR35 China list...

New Nature Communications research models optimal investment in grid-connected offshore wind OFFSHORE WIND POWER OFFERS A PROMISING SOLUTION to the challenge of decarbonizing coastal China. China’s coastal provinces, though small in land mass, are home to...

This summer, through the generous continued support of the Harvard Office of Career Services, the Harvard-China Project coordinated its fourth summer of undergraduate research. This year, seven students were paired with Harvard-China Project researchers...

New research in Nature Energy models the value of clean hydrogen in decarbonizing heavy industries/heavy transport Research Cited: Xi Yang, Chris P. Nielsen, Shaojie Song, and Michael B. McElroy. 2022. “ Breaking the “hard-to-abate” bottleneck in China’s...

Scenarios envision major role for production of “green hydrogen” as energy source INDIA, the second most populous country on the planet, is also the world’s third largest national carbon dioxide emitter. It is investing billions in renewable power, and...