Graduate Students
Yuan Xu , Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Yuan is a PhD student in the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His advisor is Robert Socolow, and his committee members are Robert Williams, John Darley, and Yiguang Ju. He is researching the question of how China would achieve CO2 emission reduction goals, if the government were to set such goals.
Nicolas Lefevre , PhD candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School
Nicolas Lefevre is a PhD candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School. His research interest is the politics and economics of technological change in the scope of climate change mitigation. In particular, he is interested in political resistance. His PhD research focuses on how such resistance can be assessed, predicted and integrated into more conventional economic models of climate change mitigation.
Jie Li , Science Technology and Environmental Policy, Woodrow Wilson School
Jie Li is a PhD student in the Science Technology and Environmental Policy of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She focuses on global warming and energy policies. Jie is interested in China’s carbon mitigation policy, mainly domestic mitigation allocation, and the connection between income, lifestyle and carbon emissions. How can environmental justice be included into carbon mitigation policy so that inequality and poverty will be reduced rather than exacerbated while we deal with climate change.