We are excited to share that in September, Project PI Dr Yixian Sun visited Islamabad to advance dialogue on greening the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

In late July, team member Yuen Gu conducted field research with the UGM team in Indonesia to study the impacts of large-scale renewable energy projects contracted to Chinese companies. The fieldwork focused on two flagship sites: Karawang 100MW Solar Park, and Cirata 145 MW Floating Solar Plant.

Between 15-23 August @yixiansun.bsky.social had a productive visit in South Africa.
In Johannesburg, Yixian attended the Transformations Community/Earth System Governance Conference, where he presented our CGEL database, as well as a book chapter on the future of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Across two days at the end of June, SGAIN team members met at Bath University to discuss their work over the last year, and plan future collaboration. Members from Bath, Indonesia, Bangladesh, China, and Pakistan presented their research, before brainstorming how to enhance cross-country learning.

On 24-25 June 2025, we were honoured to host to the Conference on China and Global Sustainability Transition, with over 60 expert attendees from more than 15 countries coming to our historic city of Bath.

On 21-27 April @yixiansun.bsky.social visited China to share our work at multiple events and engage with various partners. Yixian gave talks on his book project on China’s green soft power and introduced our China’s Global Environmental Leadership Database at multiple universities.

We are pleased to share that earlier this month, SGAIN was represented at the 66th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in Chicago by several team members.

In late February, REDEFINE hosted the ‘Researching Global China Conference’ bringing together Global China scholars to discuss methodological research in the field. We are pleased to share several SGAIN researchers attended the conference, representing the project and presenting their ongoing work.

We are pleased to announce that the Bath Conference on China & Global Sustainability Transition (sgain.org/bath-confere...) will take place 24-25th of June 2025!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Our SGAIN team wishes everyone a wonderful year of the snake!

春节快乐，蛇年大吉！

On 8-15 December 2024, the PI of the SGAIN project, Dr Yixian Sun (@yixiansun.bsky.social), travelled to Indonesia and Singapore to meet various stakeholders and prepare SGAIN’s work in Southeast Asia.

Over the last two weeks, the UN Climate Change Conference #COP29 has taken place in Baku.
We are pleased to share that several members of the SGAIN project are attending the conference, including principal investigator @yixiansun.bsky.social