Christian Shepard
Fellow, GovAI. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Christian Shepherd is an international reporter and researcher focusing on Chinese politics, climate policy, and geopolitics. Before working independently, he served as a China correspondent for The Washington Post, Financial Times, and Reuters.
1shows
1appearances
10statements
6resolved
6supported
0contradicted
100%fully supported
Everything Christian Shepard said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Shepard: Villages near Beijing Olympic ski venues heat homes with cow dung
“There are these villages nearby there that, that were still burning you know, dried cow dung as a way of heating their houses.”
Shepard: Olympic green projects create an isolated bubble, not regional sustainability
“The idea that this is, is, is creating a sort of a brand new sustainable economic model, it doesn't really make sense, and it's why I keep going back to this idea of a bubble. You know, you rebuild for one area, you bring in perhaps new ways of powering things…”
Shepard: Beijing Olympics bought all electricity from renewables via green exchange
“It's all buying from renewables using this green exchange that Beijing has set up.”
Shepard: IOC lacks independent tools to verify host nation sustainability commitments
“The IOC doesn't have the tools in place to check up on whether or not the Olympics hosts are meeting their commitments. There haven't really been independent checks carried out in a sort of consistent way.”
Shepard: Holding hosts to sustainability promises risks alienating dwindling candidate pool
“If they start pressuring countries to really hold true to their promises, Then they might turn off the already dwindling number of host countries that are willing to put on these events.”
Shepard: Bureaucracy and regional coal dependence stall China's renewable transition
“And to get away from that and to start relying on renewable energies, it doesn't just take you know, a technical fix. It's sort of a bureaucratic issue. You got to rework departments. There are regions of the country that have been relying on this for growth. …”
Shepard: Unprofitable coal plants and insufficient renewables caused power rationing in China
“China's recovery from the pandemic has been fairly rapid, particularly in, in industry. So that means that a lot of electricity was being used, particularly as you're getting into winter. And Coal prices were down, and so coal-fired power plants, they weren't …”
Shepard: Many Beijing Winter Olympics transport buses run on hydrogen
“The transport, the buses that we get moved around in, a lot of those are hydrogen.”
Shepard: Beijing reused 2008 Summer Olympic venues to reduce construction footprint
“They reused some of the venues from the Summer Olympics to try and reduce the footprint from construction.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Christian's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER | Fellow, GovAI | 1 | 10 | 100% 6/6 | full record on the Green Blueprint → |