China Environmental Law

Reuters has prepared a nice graphic of the three emissions scenarios considered in a recently published report by a panel from the National Development and Reform Commission and the Development Research Center of the State Council.  The panel has previewed its findings a number of times over the past several months, but has now formally [...]

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I think I liked it better when China wasn’t talking about an emissions peak.  I had constructed my own fantasy world where China’s emissions topped out around 2030, plus or minus five years, having grown by only 15 to 20% from today’s levels.
My fantasy world was shattered by Su Wei, Director-General of the Office of [...]

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China reportedly started construction on its first 10GW wind power farm in remote Jiuquan, Gansu province on Saturday.  There was no word on how this start of construction differed from the start of construction announced last month on  the same facility.  I guess you can never start construction too many times on a wind facility.
The Jiuquan [...]

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I will refrain from naming for public ridicule all those who opposed the carbon tariff provisions in the House version of US climate change legislation and confidently predicted that “saner” heads would prevail in the Senate.  Ten Democratic Senators have written a letter to President Obama stating their support for a “border adjustment mechanism” in [...]

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I think for my sense of well-being I need to swear off reading any pronouncements from Chinese officials on climate change negotiations until at least November.  Yu Qingtai, “China’s top envoy on climate change,” held a news conference yesterday in which he made absolutely no news.  The headlines from Xinhua tell you all you need [...]

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I have not been slow to criticize Greenpeace when I believe it has pursued soft targets or otherwise pulled its punches in China, so when it tackles an important and sensitive domestic issue and delivers a clear and needed message to the Chinese government, I am happy to offer it praise.

Last week Greenpeace issued “Polluting [...]

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We’ve about reached our pontification limit for the week here at CELB, so will avoid in depth analysis today and give you a quick tour of a few other China environmental stories making the headlines.
Environmental Protests
More than 1,000 residents in Zhentou, Hunan Province, “demonstrated outside local government headquarters and a police station, demanding greater compensation [...]

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Yesterday I wrote about my misgivings concerning the Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Cooperation on Climate Change, Energy and Environment (MOU) signed at the conclusion of the US-China S&ED.  It is the flimsiest and vaguest of agreements (except for the loaded paragraph inserted at China’s insistence), yet now we learn from Chinese State Councilor Dai [...]

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When we are wrong here at CELB we’re cyber enough to admit it.  It was just Monday we were confidently predicting that the latest US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue would be a snoozer on the climate change front (and probably all other fronts as well, but that’s beyond our scope).  Imagine then our shock when [...]

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Oh look it’s time for another round of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.  Actually this is the first dialogue since an ampersand was added to title to reflect the expansion of its scope beyond economic issues (although Paulson had already moved the talks into other areas finding that little progress was possible on the [...]

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