China Environmental Law

Can’t decide which China cleantech, clean energy, or “green” conference to attend this fall?  Your problems are solved!  Mark your calendars (September 7-8) and register now for Greentech: A Call to Action
Co-Organized by AmCham Shanghai and the Asia Society, the conference is
a platform for policy makers, leading technology companies, entrepreneurs, investors and NGOs to collaborate [...]

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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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At the end of his trip to China in May, Senator Kerry was feeling positively giddy about the prospects of a deal with China at Copenhagen:
“Based on these meetings, I am very optimistic at the possibility of producing a successful outcome in Copenhagen,” said Kerry.
He described his talks in Beijing as the “most constructive and [...]

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Back from a wonderful trip to Jiangxi Province.  I’ll try to post some photographs and a write-up later.
Secretaries Chu and Locke have been here this week.  They were touring “Future House USA“ (in the house of the future form apparently follows function, but this structure is depressingly ugly) while I was visiting August 1st Square in [...]

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