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The Climate Group Preaches Revolution

August 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments

The Climate Group launched its second homage to China’s low carbon efforts yesterday, “China’s Clean Revolution II : Opportunities for a low carbon future.”  It starts well-enough with an acknowledgement (page 5) that
In recent years the scientific evidence on climate change has become increasingly clear: it is now almost universally accepted that, in order to [...]

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Tags: carbon emissions · climate change · energy efficiency · energy policy

Greentech: A Call to Action

August 13th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: US-China relations · climate change · energy efficiency · energy policy · environmental policy · renewable energy

China’s H1 2009 Energy Efficiency Gains

August 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments

The NDRC announced on August 2, that energy efficiency (energy consumption per unit of GDP) improved by 3.35% in the first half of 2009 (compared with 2.88 percent in the first half of last year).  China has set an aggressive target in its current 5 Year Plan to improve energy efficiency by 20% by 2010 [...]

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Tags: energy efficiency · energy policy · pollution targets

Odds & Ends

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: air pollution · carbon emissions · climate change · energy efficiency · enforcement · power generation · public awareness · public protests · rural pollution

China Daily: “Companies flout pollution laws”

June 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I applaud China’s willingness to publish the results of environmental and energy audits when the results do not paint a pretty picture.  The National Audit Office (NAO) yesterday released a report containing the results of its audit of the compliance efforts of 41 major state-owned enterprises (SOE) in 2007.  It found that a number of [...]

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Tags: air pollution · energy efficiency · enforcement · environmental enforcement · miscellany · pollution targets · water pollution

Copenhagen Countdown: US’ Climate Change Position

June 2nd, 2009 · 6 Comments

If the Chinese side has presented a confusing face to the public, the Americans have not been models of consistency either. 
Presumably, the US is offering a commitment at Copenhagen similar to the reduction goals set forth in the Waxman-Markey bill ( the “American Clean Energy Security Act,” hereinafter ACES).  These come no where close to [...]

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Tags: US-China relations · Zhang Guobao · carbon emissions · climate change · energy efficiency

State Council to Local Governments:Buy Green

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments

The State Council on Monday demanded that local governments buy “more energy-efficient products.”  Local governments have apparently been slacking in their obligations to go green (what else is new?), so the State Council is now insisting on “the strict implementation of a compulsory green procurement list, instead of a “preferential” list under the Government Purchase Law, [...]

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Tags: energy efficiency · government procurement

Dateline: San Francisco

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Greetings from San Francisco’s Chinatown:

Since I’m traveling, just some brief notes today:
Mixed Signals
With coal and oil prices significantly off their highs of last year, there is little reason to raise electricity prices in China, but China’s efforts to improve energy efficiency and shift its economy from energy-intensive production are not served by reduced energy prices.  Consequently, Reuters [...]

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Tags: Friends of Nature · Wang Xi · energy efficiency · energy policy · miscellany

China’s Energy Efficiency Gains

February 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

China fine tuned its 2008 “energy intensity” number yesterday and announced that the energy used to generate each dollar of gross domestic product fell 4.59 percent (to 1.107″ton of coal equivalents”/10,000RMB of GDP).  This is good news, but will still require over the next two years a combined 10.4% drop from the 2005 baseline to [...]

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Tags: 11th Five year Plan · carbon emissions · climate change · energy efficiency · energy policy · power generation

US-China: This is the Way (Part 3)

February 11th, 2009 · No Comments

As noted yesterday, the BI Report is more process focused (although it does propose several “major headline initiatives”) while the ASP Report is more project focused.  It is possible to follow the process of the BI Report and incorporate the projects proposed in the ASP Report.  The projects which the reports propose are designed to [...]

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Tags: US-China relations · carbon emissions · climate change · energy efficiency · energy policy · renewable energy