The conference provided an excellent platform to share insights and connect with researchers working on climate action, inclusive development, and sustainable energy transitions.

Associate Professor at the University of Dhaka and SGAIN collaborator from Bangladesh, Muhammad Badrul Hasan, Ph.D also presented his research on Governance Quality and Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries.

SGAIN Doctoral Researcher Muhammad Faisal Sharif presented his research in the Clean and Affordable Energy session, where he discussed emerging dynamics in energy transitions, governance, and the attainment of SDG 7 in the Global South, with a particular focus on Pakistan.

On 4–6 March 2026, SGAIN researchers had the opportunity to share our work at the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability Conference in Tokyo. The conference, organized by Hiroshima University, brought together over 300 scholars and practitioners from across the globe.

The conference, organized by Hiroshima University, brought together over 300 scholars and practitioners from across the globe to discuss sustainability, governance, and global challenges.

Ben met with the Bath SGAIN team members and offered some important advice to our early-career researchers and their projects, using his expertise in how public and private actors collaborate to address complex environmental challenges to suggest future pathways and research opportunities.

Through his leadership in designing and facilitating collaborative, multi-stakeholder policy processes, Professor Cashore has illuminated new pathways for tackling “super wicked” problems—environmental challenges marked by their urgency, complexity, and resistance to conventional remedies.

Last week, University of Bath's Global Chair and SGAIN Advisory Board member Benjamin Cashore visited Bath. Professor of Public Management at NUS and Director of the Institute for Environment & Sustainability, Professor Cashore is a globally-recognised scholar.

In this article, authors call on GEP researchers to bring geopolitics more fully back into their analyses to better explain the new dynamics of environmental politics and governance in a changing world.

Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and growing international trade tensions.

Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence Abstract. Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and...

🔔New Article – Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence

We are excited to share our latest article, co-authored by PI Dr Yixian Sun, is now available to read in Global Environmental Politics: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Happy Year of the Horse! As we enter a new lunar year, the SGAIN team sends our warmest wishes to our partners, collaborators, and followers.

May this year of the Horse bring you good health, joy, and success! Wishing everyone 马年吉祥，马到成功

This research trip has significantly expanded our networks in Indonesia, which will allow us to produce more relevant and impactful research in coming years.

This was followed by three thematic sessions focused respectively on governance for Indonesia’s energy transition, Chinese companies’ engagement, and just transition for local communities.

The workshop was opened by Dr. Yixian Sun, who gave a keynote speech on China’s shifting role in global climate governance. As lead of SGAIN Indonesia team, Prof. Dr. Nur Rachmat Yuliantoro outlined key findings from the SGAIN project’s research in Indonesia.

On 3 February, the SGAIN Indonesia team organised a workshop in Jakarta: “Advancing Indonesia-China Partnerships for Clean Energy Transition: Policy, Governance, and Practices”.

Over 30 representatives of Indonesian and Chinese governments, businesses, and civil society participated.

Written by @yixiansun.bsky.social, Freya Chant, Ciara O'Brien, Yitong Ye, Jiuyang Li, Yuen Gu, and Ya Xiao, this report marks the first in our series of our project to examine China's evolving role in global sustainability governance.

...promoting a just transition in overseas engagement, and establishing robust communication channels with international stakeholders.

To address these challenges, we recommend policy reforms for Chinese state and non-state actors in four broad areas: strengthening support for multilateral cooperation, enhancing transparency of policies and activities...

Our analysis show that while China has already made, in various ways, nontrivial contributions to sustainability transitions worldwide, several institutional and ideational barriers have prevented related Chinese actors from playing a more active role in supporting transitions in other countries.

Drawing on an original expert survey from our Bath Conference on China and Global Sustainability Transition, and evidence from academic and grey literature, this report examines China’s roles in three critical areas related to sustainability transitions.

China and Global Sustainability Transition Outlook 2025: China's emerging leadership in global sustainability governance amid geopolitical turbulence.

📰 We are pleased to share that on the last day of 2025, we published our China & Global Sustainability Transition Outlook 2025

The report is open access and available to read here: researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publicati...

China and Global Sustainability Transition Outlook 2025 | SGAIN Project China's emerging leadership in global sustainability governance amind geopolitical turbulence.

Finally, on the last day of 2025, we are excited to share our last output for the year - The China & Global Sustainability Transition Outlook 2025. This starts a new report series of our project to examine China's evolving role in global sustainability governance: sgain.org/china-and-gl...

From Solar Boom to Green Industrialization: Policy Pathways to Localizing Solar Value Chains in Pakistan

We launched our report on the localisation of solar value chains in Pakistan first at #COP30 in Belem and later in Islamabad. You can access to the full report at researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publicati...

In June, we hosted a workshop to discuss the manuscript of an upcoming book on China's green soft power. We also hosted all our SGAIN Project team members from the UK, Indonesia, Bangladesh, China, and Pakistan at the University of Bath to discuss ongoing and planned research.

SGAIN's research on China and Global Sustainability Transition The Sustainability Governance of China's Global Infrastructure Investments (SGAIN) is a £1.7 million UKRI-funded research project led by Dr Yixian…

🤝 In June 2025, we hosted the Bath Conference on China & Global Sustainability Transition, bringing over 60 experts from more than 15 countries . This video captures some beautiful moments from the conference vimeo.com/1134543531

As we look to the new year, we want to use this opportunity to celebrate some of our achivements over the last year:
🌐 Our team has travelled to 1️⃣ 2️⃣ countries around the world to conduct research, present our work, and develop collaboration

As 2025 draws to a close, we would like to thank all of our team members, partners, collaborators and followers for their hard work, support and engagement with our project!

How can the world engage with China to strengthen global environmental governance? Strategically engaging can help shape China's emerging environmental leadership, write two scholars of Chinese environmental policy

You can read more about this important topic in a Dialogue Earth article published yesterday, where Dr Sun and Tyler Harlan explore potential paths for engaging China: dialogue.earth/en/climate/h...

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🔔New Article – China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?

We are excited to share our latest article, co-authored by PI Dr Yixian Sun, is now available to read in #JCCA Journal of Current Chinese Affairs: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...