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An interview with Dr Stanley Yip of NanRise Pte Ltd by  the Jiangsu Provincial Green Building Association (JGBA) *, January 2026:   The building sector is a significant contributor to China's CO₂ emissions. In a recent interview with the Jiangsu Provincial Green Building Association (JGBA), Dr Yip shared his perspective on integrating the sector into the national carbon market. The  mandatory carbon market  currently focuses on supply-side industries like power, cement, and s

"If we cannot measure, we cannot manage”  -  Managing global climate change is a data-driven decision process. However, when dealing with emission mitigation on the demand side particularly in the urban development and construction sector, we often fail to quantify and effectively measure the  emission reduction effects of decisions, hence rendering any climate actions  a "shot in the dark." Ove the last decade, Chinese cities have been initiating, implementing and testing th

Dr Stanley Yip, CEO of NanRise, was invited to speak as the keynote speaker at the 5the Jiangsu-Canada Green and Low Carbon Development Conference (17 November 2025) in the beautiful City of Wuxi which is located next to the famous Yang Cheng Lake (where the best hairy crabs in the world are harvested) in Jiangsu Province China. The conference was organized by the Jiangsu Green Building Association and supported by Canada Wood and the Provincial Government of Jiangsu, and a

Prof. Alexander Zehnder, partner at NanRise, delivered the distinguished keynote address, “ Liveable and Sustainable Cities – the Grand Challenge for Humanity ,” at the NUS Cities Symposium during Urban Science Week 2025 in Singapore on 3 September 2025. Prof. Zehnder identified a critical institutional gap: although many global institutes are dedicated to specific areas such as water, food, health, and safety & security, there is currently no institute focused exclusively on