China Environmental Law

Back from Beijing.  I will have a full report after the Dragon Boat Holiday.  Plans for US-China cooperation in the clean energy space seem to be developing apace.  That’s the good news.  On the Copenhagen front, I’m not feeling so confident.  It was nice to see the US-China Clean Energy Forum folks again.  Thanks for [...]

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I am heading to Beijing today to attend the US-China Clean Energy Forum.  The forum features a presentation by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Senator John Kerry, Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and National Development and Reform Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Guobao.  I’ll provide a wrap-up when I get back.

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I’m still working on a post addressing where China needs to be in terms of climate commitments at Copenhagen.  If you are looking for something to read today I can recommend a report published last month by the Swedish Prime Minister’s Commission on Sustainable Development entitled “A Balancing Act: China’s Role in Climate Change.“ 
The report [...]

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For those of you logging in for the promised Gomer Pyle feature (I’ve included a video since I’m sure there are readers who don’t have a clue who Gomer is. I, of course, am familiar with him only in rerurns) and discussion of the consensus developing as to where China needs to be in terms [...]

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There have been plans for at least the last seven years to build a series of 13 dams on the middle and lower sections of the scenic Nu River in Yunnan Province.  This is no small project.  China Huadian, a state-owned power company, and developer of the project reports that “once completed the 13 dams [...]

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The New York Times has now jumped into the US-China “secret” climate change meeting fray.  In an article strangely entitled “Secret Meeting Between U.S. and China Broke New Ground on Climate Change,” it is conclusively demonstrated that the meetings were neither secret nor ground-breaking.  If you are bored with this whole affair here’s the bottom [...]

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It turns out Joe Romm at Climate Progress (CP) is a friend of Bill Chandler, director of the energy and climate program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and one of the main sources for the Guardian story, “China and US held secret talks on climate change deal,” we reviewed yesterday.  Chandler has confirmed [...]

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Now it can be told!  This is one for the history books!  Not since Kissinger’s secret trip to China in July 1971 have we had US-China intrigue of this magnitude!  Here’s the scoop:
A high-powered group of senior Republicans and Democrats led two missions to China in the final months of the Bush administration for secret [...]

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If that headline doesn’t drive traffic to this site, I don’t know what will!
Shanghai as we have previously discussed prepares three-year plans for the environment.  Major items to be included in Shanghai’s 4th Three-year action plan (2009-2001) were addressed in this post.  At the “Call for Green China” conference, however, Lin Weiqing of the Shanghai [...]

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I suspect not, it’s probably just a case of great minds. . .OK maybe its not that complicated an issue, but still we think its pretty cool. . . 
Here’s CELB March 18th, 2009 Climate Change: China’s Argument Du Jour:
Li Gao, China’s chief climate negotiator, . . . [i]n widely reported remarks, argued that the carbon produced by [...]

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