Hancheng Dai, Assistant Professor at College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, China. He received his B.S. degree from Peking University in China, M.S. degree from the Technical University of Munich in Germany and Ph.D. degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan.
Prof. Dai’s research interests are on climate change economics, energy and environmental economics and policy assessment. He has been developing the state-of-the-art integrated assessment models to find out how the society could transit into a low-carbon and sustainable future at the local, national and global scales. Using these models, he explored key questions such as the mitigation cost of achieving the Copenhagen targets, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and 2 °C degree targets in China, the co-benefits of climate mitigation on air pollution, human health, water saving and resource efficiency, as well as the effects of emission trading policy in China. His main publications, including 6 ESI highly cited papers, are on energy economics and policy related journal.