Mengpin Ge

Associate II, Climate Program

Bio

Mengpin is an Associate with WRI’s Global Climate Program, where she provides analytical and technical support for the Open Climate Network (OCN) and CAIT 2.0 projects. Her work focuses on analyzing and communicating national and international climate policies and data to inform climate decision making towards the 2015 climate agreement.

Prior to WRI, Mengpin earned her M.S. in Energy Science, Technology & Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and B.S. in Environment Science from Nanjing University, China. Mengpin was born and grew up in China. Outside work she enjoys exploring DC’s museums and exhibits, and discovering the food, cities and national parks in the States.

Blogs

4 Charts Explain Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Countries and Sectors
by Mengpin Ge and Johannes Friedrich - February 06, 2020
Data shows that the energy sector produces 73% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and 10 countries account for more than two-thirds of annual emissions.
Everything You Need to Know About the Fastest-Growing Source of Global Emissions: Transport
by Shiying Wang and Mengpin Ge - October 16, 2019
Decarbonizing the transport sector would create a cleaner, healthier and more affordable future for everyone, and it can be done without sacrificing the interconnectedness we've come to expect from modernity.
Which Countries Have Long-term Strategies to Reduce Emissions?
by Mengpin Ge and Katherine Ross - September 17, 2019
Scores of countries are expected to announce plans at next week's UN Climate Action Summit to accelerate and scale up global ambition to implement the Paris Agreement. Twelve have already shared their long-term strategies to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury. Climate Watch's new Long-term Strategy Tracker offers a look.
Climate Action Barometer: 12 Charts Explain Where We Are Today, and Where We Need to Be in 2020
by Kelly Levin, Katie Lebling and Mengpin Ge - January 21, 2019
Our best chance of preventing the worst impacts of climate change is to peak carbon emissions by 2020. New WRI research finds that despite progress in some areas, the world is not yet on track.
More than One-Third of National Climate Plans Aren’t Easily Measured
by Mengpin Ge and Cihang Yuan - November 28, 2018
While virtually all countries have national climate plans, in many cases it’s not clear what effect they’ll have on emissions.
5 Things You Need to Know About the UN Emissions Gap Report
by Kelly Levin, Taryn Fransen and Mengpin Ge - November 27, 2018
There's a large and growing gap between where global greenhouse gas emissions are headed and where they need to be to prevent the worst climate impacts.
INSIDER: What’s Changing As Countries Turn INDCs into NDCs? 5 Early Insights
by Mengpin Ge and Kelly Levin - April 18, 2018
As countries formalize their climate action plans, some are shifting to more stringent targets, increasing transparency, and reflecting recent developments in knowledge and technology. Some countries, however, have lowered their ambition or made tweaks that make their commitment less clear.
5 Charts Show How Global Emissions Have Changed Since 1850
by Katie Lebling, Mengpin Ge and Johannes Friedrich - April 02, 2018
The top emitters have remained mostly the same, but there are interesting wrinkles when you look at cuts like per capita data and countries that have peaked their emissions.
Evaluating Indonesia’s Progress on its Climate Commitments
by Hanny Chrysolite, Reidinar Juliane, Josefhine Chitra and Mengpin Ge - October 04, 2017
As Indonesia implements new policies and plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, a WRI working paper lays out steps it can take to meet its highest targets.
6 Charts to Understand U.S. State Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Johannes Friedrich, Mengpin Ge and Alexander Tankou - August 10, 2017
U.S. states are major global greenhouse gas emitters, and they have the economic heft and legislative authority to move the United States toward lower emissions and cleaner energy. These six charts show how state emissions compare, how they're changing and what could come next.

Publications

Looking Past the Horizon: the Case for Indonesia’s Long-Term Strategy for Climate Action
Indonesia is growing rapidly in terms of the economy and demography. At the same time, Indonesia is emitting greenhouse gas emission and is among the top global emitter. Indonesia has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 29 percent to up to 41 percent against a business-as-usual...
by Hanny Chrysolite, Andhyta Utami, Dedy Mahardika, Arief Wijaya, Juan-Carlos Altamirano and Mengpin Ge - March 2020

publication
Topics: Indonesia, Climate
Geography: Indonesia
Tracking Progress of the 2020 Climate Turning Point
The world is already experiencing severe impacts of climate change, from extreme heat waves, sea level rise to species die-offs and crop failures. We must act quickly to stabilize global warming below 1.5° C (2.7° F) to avoid much greater threats, as the IPCC report released last October made...
by Mengpin Ge, Katie Lebling, Kelly Levin and Johannes Friedrich - February 2019

publication
Topics: Climate
How Can Indonesia Achieve Its Climate Change Mitigation Goal? An Analysis of Potential Emissions Reductions from Energy and Land-Use Policies
Indonesia is one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG). For the past two decades, GHG emissions have increased from almost all sectors, such as land-use (defined as land use, land-use change, and forestry including peat fires), energy, agriculture, industry, and waste....
by Arief Wijaya, Hanny Chrysolite, Mengpin Ge, Clorinda Kurnia Wibowo, Almo Pradana, Andhyta Firselly Utami and Kemen Austin - October 2017

publication
Topics: Climate
Geography: Indonesia
Translating Targets into Numbers: Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Targets of the G20 Countries
Countries around the world have set greenhouse gas targets, but they have taken different forms, from reductions in historical emissions to reductions relative to projected business-as-usual scenarios or the emissions intensity of the economy. In many cases, countries have not explicitly stated...
by Katherine Ross, David Rich and Mengpin Ge - December 2016

publication
Topics: Climate
Indonesian Climate Policy and Data in CAIT Indonesia Climate Data Explorer (PINDAI)
Indonesia Climate Data Explorer, or Platform Interaktif untuk Data Iklim (PINDAI) is an open, bilingual (Bahasa Indonesia and English) online platform featuring Indonesian national- and provincial-level climate policy information and data, including historical and projected emissions,...
by Mengpin Ge, Hanny Chrysolite, Andhyta Utami, Arief Wijaya and Johannes Friedrich - June 2016

publication
Topics: Indonesia, Climate
Geography: Indonesia
Interpreting INDCs: Assessing Transparency of Post-2020 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets for 8 Top-Emitting Economies
This paper evaluates the transparency of the greenhouse gas emissions targets presented in the INDCs of eight major emitters —Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and the United States—which, together, contribute nearly two-thirds of annual global emissions. It...
by Thomas Damassa, Taryn Fransen, Mengpin Ge, Krisztina Pjeczka, Katherine Ross and Barbara Haya - December 2015

publication
Topics: Climate, INDCs
The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets
This fact sheet provides context for the U.S. GHG reduction targets and a synthesis of WRI and other scenarios that present possible GHG emissions trajectories for the U.S., given various assumptions.

Its primary aim is to inform stakeholders engaged in the UN Framework Convention on...
by Thomas Damassa, Mengpin Ge and Taryn Fransen - December 2014

publication
Topics: Climate
Geography: United States

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4 Charts Explain Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Countries and Sectors

Everything You Need to Know About the Fastest-Growing Source of Global Emissions: Transport

Which Countries Have Long-term Strategies to Reduce Emissions?

Climate Action Barometer: 12 Charts Explain Where We Are Today, and Where We Need to Be in 2020

More than One-Third of National Climate Plans Aren’t Easily Measured

5 Things You Need to Know About the UN Emissions Gap Report

INSIDER: What’s Changing As Countries Turn INDCs into NDCs? 5 Early Insights

5 Charts Show How Global Emissions Have Changed Since 1850

Evaluating Indonesia’s Progress on its Climate Commitments

6 Charts to Understand U.S. State Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Looking Past the Horizon: the Case for Indonesia’s Long-Term Strategy for Climate Action

Tracking Progress of the 2020 Climate Turning Point

How Can Indonesia Achieve Its Climate Change Mitigation Goal? An Analysis of Potential Emissions Reductions from Energy and Land-Use Policies

Translating Targets into Numbers: Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Targets of the G20 Countries

Indonesian Climate Policy and Data in CAIT Indonesia Climate Data Explorer (PINDAI)

Interpreting INDCs: Assessing Transparency of Post-2020 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets for 8 Top-Emitting Economies

The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets

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