Danning Lu

Oct 23, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Danning Lu |JING YANG

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Oct 17, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Binbin Wang |Danning Lu |Anthony A. Leiserowitz |Jingli Xing

AbstractUnderstanding public attitudes toward China’s carbon neutrality goal is important to inform policy-making and mobilize climate actions. This article investigates public awareness, policy support, and confidence regarding the carbon neutrality goal based on a 2022 survey of 4,162 people across China. We find high awareness, support, and confidence in achieving the goal while analyzing differences in responses by gender, age, location, education, income, occupation, and health.

Jun 6, 2024 | newsecuritybeat.org | Danning Lu

During the World Wildlife Fund’s Plastic Policy Summit in March in Washington D.C., I grabbed coffee in a white ceramic mug provided by the convention venue. Reusable mugs seemed unusual amid today’s prevalence of single-use cups, prompting me to reflect on how we have normalized single-use: I bought yogurt and soda in returnable bottles in Beijing; generations before us grew up with reuse. Why did we move away from it?

Mar 1, 2024 | breakfreefromplastic.org | Danning Lu

While exerting bans is a great strategy to reduce plastic waste, they are hard to enforce without effective alternative packaging. It is time for a reuse revolution with innovative companies, NGOs, and consumers hacking a scalable reusable food and beverage packaging system. Food takeaway has become a symbol of urban lifestyle convenience in China, but the resulting single-use plastic (SUP) waste has become a costly environmental and economic burden.

Feb 15, 2024 | newsecuritybeat.org | Danning Lu

China has rapidly moved to address escalating food and beverage packaging waste, including the 2018 ban on importing plastic recyclables, the implementation of extensive urban waste sorting pilots, and the 2022 prohibition of non-biodegradable single-use plastics. But China’s plastic mountains are still growing. While exerting bans is a great strategy to reduce plastic waste, they are hard to enforce without effective alternative packaging.