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Emissions Trading in China: First Reports from the Field

Ranping Song and Hongpeng Lei When Tianjin launched its carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) on Dec 26th 2013, it became the fifth ETS operating in China, following Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, and...

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Panel: China’s Clean Energy Challenges

ChinaFAQs In a panel at the Brookings Institution moderated by ChinaFAQs expert Kenneth Lieberthal, ChinaFAQs experts Sarah Forbes, Kelly Sims Gallagher, and Jane Nakano discussed the challenges and...

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3 Ways the US and China Can Work Together for Responsible Shale Gas Development

Sarah Forbes This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:As China charts its energy future, the country is setting its sights on natural gas. The Chinese government aims to double the share...

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China’s performance on the 2014 Environmental Performance Index: What are the...

Angel Hsu and William Miao Amidst headlines detailing off-the-charts air pollution in Beijing, it may come as a surprise that China’s latest environmental scorecard does boast bright spots. The 2014...

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How U.S.-China Cooperation Can Expand Clean Energy Development

Sarah Forbes and Jonathan Moch This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:One year ago, the United States and China declared in their Joint Statement on Climate Change that “forceful,...

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China Approves Amendments to Environmental Protection Law

ChinaFAQs On Friday the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress voted to approve amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law. These amendments mark the first time China’s...

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New Weapons in the War on Pollution: China's Environmental Protection Law...

Barbara Finamore This post originally appeared on NRDC’s Switchboard Blog:On Thursday, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, approved major...

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5 ChinaFAQs Experts Testify Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security...

ChinaFAQs The purpose of this hearing was to examine China’s domestic and international clean energy policies, as well as the state of U.S.-China cooperation on clean energy, in order to provide...

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China and the United States Accelerate Efforts on Carbon Capture and Storage

Sarah Forbes This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:China and the United States established eight new pacts this week to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.read more

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U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue Announcements on Climate Change...

Geoffrey Henderson Cooperation on climate change and air pollution were important themes of this week’s U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue held in Beijing, an annual meeting among high-level...

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The U.S. and China, Working Together to Speed the Benefits of Electric Vehicles

Huei Peng In 1896, American engineers faced a dilemma: what should power their new invention, the automobile? Henry Ford’s idea of a gasoline-powered car persuaded Thomas Edison not to pursue an...

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Cleaning China's Smoggy Skies: China Released Draft Air Pollution Law...

Barbara Finamore, Kate Logan, Marie McMullen, Tianshu Sun, Wang Yan, Wu Qi, Zhang Xiya, and Yuelin Zhou This post originally appeared on NRDC’s Switchboard Blog:Though a burst of clear skies on Monday...

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Climate negotiator previews China's approach to UN Climate Summit

Geoffrey Henderson China’s chief climate negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, held a press conference Friday and made statements that may preview China’s approach to the UN Climate Summit on September 23rd.Read...

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China’s “New Long March” through the UN Climate Summit: Context and...

Nathaniel Aden This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:The Long March was a watershed moment in Chinese history—the moment Mao Zedong’s nascent Communist Party escaped disaster in 1934 en...

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Chinese official: Chinese and US Climate Action Linked

Geoffrey Henderson Li Junfeng, director general of China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy, says China is studying its climate action options. In an article on the UN Climate Summit, The...

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Press Call on U.S.-China Climate Discussions

Lauren Zelin, Paul Joffe and Geoffrey Henderson When President Obama and President Xi Jinping meet next week in Beijing, climate change and energy will be important topics of discussion. As the...

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China Tries to Come to Grips with Pollution

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US and China Strike Deal on Climate Change -- "Now You're Talking"

Paul Joffe This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:The American expression “now you’re talking,” actually means “now you’re getting real.” Getting real on steps to confront climate change...

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Hank Paulson: A Time of Leadership on Climate Change

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Secretaries of Commerce and Energy to Lead Clean Energy Trade Mission to China

Geoffrey Henderson U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz recently announced plans for a Business Development Mission to China in April, intended to promote U.S....

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