China Environmental Law

A “competition for dominance in the greentech “war” is being quietly started;” our competitor has “launched a new ‘carbon-economic revolution’” and we have been left behind at the “starting gate.”
Is Tom Friedman having another China moment?  No, these words come from a Chinese columnist in the China Youth Daily (A new era of “the old [...]

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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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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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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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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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Wow!  Here’s some hot news:
China aims to expand its wind power generating capacity to 100,000 megawatts by 2020, more than doubling the current world’s installed capacity.
The plan - which is five times the previous target - was set forth by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top industry planning body.
“The NDRC has just [...]

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We at CELB have been remiss in not mentioning an important player in the US-China clean energy space.  The US-China Clean Energy Forum has been up and running for some time and has sponsored exchanges of government and business leaders in both China and the US.  Originally conceived in the Pacific Northwest it still retains a [...]

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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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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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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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