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Copenhagen Countdown: China’s Climate Change Position

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Let me admit what many of you have already concluded: I’m confused.  After a week of immersion in the US-China climate change dynamic, I feel less certain about where all this is heading than before.  With little more than six months to go before the world’s climate change negotiators meet in Copenhagen, it make sense [...]

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Tags: NDRC · US-China relations · Xie Zhenhua · Zhang Guobao · carbon emissions · climate change

Let there be (highly-efficient impact fluorescent) light in 2009!

January 2nd, 2009 · 6 Comments

China is developing an action plan that could place it at the forefront of the energy efficiency movement and stimulate the economy at the same time.  The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the planner, said it would be working in partnership with the United Nations Development Program and the Global Environment Fund on a [...]

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Tags: 10th Five Year Plan · NDRC · energy efficiency