Sha Yu is a fellow at the School of Public Policy and Center for Global Sustainability. She is also a research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Joint Global Change Research Institute and an expert in energy and environmental issues, with a focus on climate finance, energy and climate policies, sectoral decarbonization pathways and smart cities. She leads research on net-zero carbon buildings and industry decarbonization. Yu also leads the development and application of a state-of-art integrated assessment model with subnational details in China (GCAM-China).
Yu has a decade of experience in developing and implementing clean energy policies in China, India, Vietnam, Pakistan, and ASEAN countries. She led collaborative research under the U.S.-China Climate Change Working Group and U.S.-India Strategic Energy Partnership and with governments, researchers, and businesses to advance energy policies in various regions. She holds an MS and PhD in Energy Policy from the University of Maryland.
- Climate change mitigation; sustainable finance; energy & environmental policy; integrated assessment modeling
The China Program at CGS integrates scientific research, education, policy analysis, and stakeholder engagement to help understand and inform the development and deployment of China’s climate, energy, and environment strategies across international, national, and local contexts.
Learn More about China ProgramSchool Authors: Mengye Zhu, Steven J. Smith, Meredydd Evans, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Jiehong Lou, Jenna Behrendt, Nathan Hultman, Sha Yu
Other Authors: Minpeng Chen, Qimin Chai, Fei Teng, Pu Wang, Xinzhao Cheng, Wenli Li, Sha Fu, Haiwen Zhang, Manjyot Ahluwalia, Yi Wang
School Authors: Sha Yu, Haewon McJeon
Other Authors: Wade E. Fritzeen, Patrick R. O’Rourke, Jay G. Fuhrman, Lisa M. Colosi, William M. Shobe, Scott C. Doney, Andrés F. Clarens
School Authors: James 'Jae' Edmonds, Sha Yu
Other Authors: Simone Speizer, Siddarth Durga, Nina Blahut, Molly Charles, Johanna Lehne
School Authors: Sha Yu, Jenna Behrendt, Andy Miller, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Yang Liu, Jacqueline Adams, Wenli Li, Haiwen Zhang, Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Jiawei Song, Qiang Zhang
School Authors: Sha Yu, Jenna Behrendt, Andy Miller, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Yang Liu, Jacqueline Adams, Wenli Li, Haiwen Zhang, Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Jiawei Song, Qiang Zhang
School Authors: Sha Yu, Jenna Behrendt
Other Authors: Sha Fu, Xiao Qin, Lingyan Chen, Xuan Du, Manqi Li, Chengcheng Mei, Zhuoxiang Yang, Fei Guo, Volker Krey, Junling Liu, Nina Khanna, Hongyou Lu, Nan Zhou, Yazhen Wu, Ke Wang, Qimin Chai, Wenying Chen, Shu Zhang, Xinzhao Cheng, Leon Clarke
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Jiehong Lou, Alicia Zhao, Jenna Behrendt, Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Sha Yu, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Baihe Gu, Jiawei Song, Leon Clarke, Yi Wang, Xianchun Tan, Kaiwei Zhu, Yuhui Sheng, Hanbing Zhai, Lingsi Kong, Yonglong Cheng, Jon Sampedro, Stephanie Waldhoff
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Alicia Zhao, Sha Yu
Other Authors: Matthew Zwerling
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Haewon McJeon, Jiehong Lou, Sha Yu, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Maria Borrero, Claire Squire
School Authors: Jiehong Lou, Sha Yu
Other Authors: Victoria Adofoli
School Authors: Christina Bowman, Sha Yu
Other Authors: Jiawei Song, John O'Neill
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Leon Clarke, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Nathan Hultman, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Sha Yu, Haewon McJeon
Other Authors: Yang Ou, Allen A. Fawcett, James R. McFarland, Matthew Binsted, Claire Fyson, Andreas Geiges, Sofia Gonzales-Zuñiga, Matthew J. Gidden, Niklas Höhne, Louise Jeffery, Takeshi Kuramochi, Jared Lewis, Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, Pralit Patel, Shaun Ragnauth, Joeri Rogel J., Stephanie Waldhoff
School Authors: Leon Clarke, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Sha Yu, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Cornelia Auer, Ryan Barrett, Antoine Boirard, Renaud Concordet, Jérôme Hilaire, Otso Manninen, Thessa Beck, David Bresch, Christoph Bertram, Molly Charles, Dawn Holland, Ian Hurst, Elmar Kriegler, Chahan Kropf, Iana Liadze, Theresa Löber, Franziska Piontek, Jihoon Min, Edo Schets, Inga Sauer, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Bas van Ruijven
School Authors: Sha Yu
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Sha Yu, Morgan Edwards, Christina Bowman, Leon Clarke, Jiehong Lou, Mengye Zhu
Other Authors: Diyang Cui, Arijit Sen, Kaihui Song, Junjie Kang, Fuqiang Yang, Jiahai Yuan, Weirong Zhang
School Authors: Sha Yu
Other Authors: Qing Tan
School Authors: Jiehong Lou, Sha Yu, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Jiawei Song, Jessica Frech
School Authors: Leon Clarke, Sha Yu, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman, Jiehong Lou
Other Authors: Jiawei Song, Sha Fu, Xuan Du, Zhenhua Feng, Xuecheng Wang, Lingyan Chen, Zhuoxiang Yang, Junling Liu, Li Yang, Nicklas Forsell, Fei Guo, Volker Krey, Minpeng Chen, Ke Wang, Qimin Chai, Qiang Zhang
School Authors: Sha Yu, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Haewon McJeon, Nathan Hultman, Leon Clarke
Other Authors: Brinda Yarlagadda
School Authors: Sha Yu, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Haewon McJeon, Nathan Hultman, Leon Clarke
Other Authors: Brinda Yarlagadda
