News & Events

Research Presentation in Glasgow

March 2026

On 4 March, our PI Dr Yixian Sun was invited to give a talk at the Political Economy Future Forum Seminar at the University of Glasgow. He presented a paper introducing our China's Global Environmental Leadership (CGEL) Database and highlighted key findings on China's rising leadership in global environmental governance. Researchers from different disciplines at the University attended the workshop and provided insightful feedback on our research. We are grateful for the invitation of Prof Bernhard Reinsberg and look forward to deepening our collaboration with Glasgow.

Professor Cashore Visit

February 2026

Last week, University of Bath's Global Chair and SGAIN Advisory Board member Benjamin Cashore visited Bath. Professor of Public Management at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Director of the Institute for Environment & Sustainability (IES) at NUS' Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Professor Cashore is a globally-recognised scholar in the field of environmental governance and public policy. 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.

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.

Stakeholder workshop and field research in Jakarta

February 2026

On 3 February 2026, the SGAIN Indonesia team organised a workshop in Jakarta, entitled “Advancing Indonesia-China Partnerships for Clean Energy Transition: Policy, Governance, and Practices”. Over thirty representatives of Indonesian and Chinese governments, businesses, and civil society participated in the workshop together in Jakarta as part of the SGAIN project’s stakeholder workshop to share opportunities and challenges to collaboration in the clean energy sector and identify pathways to better leverage China’s support for the acceleration of Indonesia’s energy transition.

The workshop was opened by Dr. 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. 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. Speakers included representatives from the Ministry of National Development and Planning (Bappenas), Ministry of Investment and Downstream Industry (BKPM), and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), PT Aruna Cahay Pratama, Asosiasi Energi Surya Indonesia, Center for Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS), SMERU Institute, GermanWatch, Indonesia Climate and Growth Dialogue, and Universitas Indonesia.

Altogether, the workshop has produced valuable insights from a diversity of stakeholders in Indonesia’s energy transition, helped to enhance exchanges and coordination among them, and potentially can open up new avenues for clean energy cooperation between Indonesia and China. Based on the workshop discussions, we will develop policy brief with concrete policy recommendations to both Indonesian and Chinese stakeholders.

In the rest of the last week, our project PI Yixian Sun and PhD researcher Yuen Gu also had meetings with a range of key Chinese companies in the clean energy supply chains operating in Indonesia. This research trip has significantly expanded our networks in Indonesia, which will allow us to produce more relevant and impactful research in coming years.