Kai joined the Industrial Ecology department at CML as a PhD researcher in February 2021. His research centers on assessing and mitigating the environmental impacts of the global plastic waste trade.

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Professional experience

Kai Li graduated in 2020 with a MSc degree in Management Science and Engineering at Chongqing University after receiving his BSc degree in Construction Management at Wuhan University of Technology in 2017. During his MSc, Kai did research on Chinese farmland transactions with the knowledge of urban and land economics. 
In 2019, he took part in a project aiming to measure energy consumption and operational carbon emissions in the Chinese building sector, which supports his final thesis. 

Research topic

Kai is developing a model to quantify the environmental impacts of the global plastic waste trade. His work involves reconciling bilateral trade data, evaluating recycling rates, modeling environmental consequences, and analyzing the effects of related policies. Additionally, Kai has a keen interest in the broader societal and environmental impacts of trade and climate change policy.

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