/newsroom/taxonomy/term/10411/all en /newsroom/channels/news/expert-us-diplomats-boycott-2022-beijing-winter-olympics-335431 <p>The United States has announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China – a move that has been heavily criticized by Beijing. The White House said no official delegation would be sent to the Games because of concerns about China's human rights record but said U.S. athletes could attend and would have the government's full support. (<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59556613" target="_blank">BBC News</a>)</p> <p>Here is an expert from Â鶹AV that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:55:03 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 283711 at /newsroom /newsroom/juan-wang Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:58:14 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 198398 at /newsroom /newsroom/sarah-moser Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:47:03 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 197513 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/rural-china-rapidly-adopts-clean-energy-use-traditional-wood-and-coal-stoves-persists-303128 <p>Old habits are hard to break. A Â鶹AV-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a better understanding of the reasons behind people’s reluctance to give up traditional stoves, it will be difficult for policies in China and elsewhere in the world to succeed in encouraging this shift towards clean energy. The study was published recently in <i><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0432-x">Nature Sustainability</a></i>.</p> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:02:13 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 190089 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/no-grain-self-sufficiency-china-without-changes-land-policies-287551 <p>If China is to achieve its target of 95% grain self-sufficiency by 2030 it will need to restrict the conversion of arable land to other uses say researchers from Â鶹AV. This may prove challenging in a country with a population of almost 1.4 billion, but with just under 13% of arable land, close to half of which is suffering from soil degradation. After analyzing the potential impacts of various current trade-related food policies, the researchers have arrived at the conclusion that the current Red Line arable land protection policy is insufficient to reach the government’s desired goal.</p> Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:28:52 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 43835 at /newsroom