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...
View ArticlePanel: 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...
View Article3 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...
View ArticleChina’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...
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View Article5 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...
View ArticleChina 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
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCleaning 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...
View ArticleClimate 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...
View ArticleChina’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...
View ArticleChinese 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...
View ArticlePress 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...
View ArticleUS 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...
View ArticleHank Paulson: A Time of Leadership on Climate Change
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View ArticleSecretaries 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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