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High level Chinese policy initiative shows new momentum on environment
Jonathan Moch and Paul Joffe Last week, China’s leadership met at the Third Plenum of the Central Committee to outline major reforms China will undertake over the next decade. While China faces...
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China Can Turn its Challenges into Clear Opportunities for Greener Growth
Manish Bapna and Deborah Seligsohn This article first appeared in the South China Morning Post.Confronted with a cooling economy and global headlines declaring an “Airpocalypse”, China faces...
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Prologue to the 2013 U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue – ChinaFAQs...
Jonathan Moch ChinaFAQs climate and energy experts and top media representatives took part in a ChinaFAQs press call on July 8th to preview the July 10th and 11th U.S.-China Strategic and Economic...
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Reinvigorating the U.S.-China Climate Change Relationship
Deborah Seligsohn There is good news on international climate change cooperation.The United States and China are reaching out to work in new areas related to climate change while also strengthening...
View ArticleHigh level Chinese policy initiative shows new momentum on environment
Jonathan Moch and Paul Joffe Last week, China’s leadership met at the Third Plenum of the Central Committee to outline major reforms China will undertake over the next decade. While China faces...
View ArticleChina Can Turn its Challenges into Clear Opportunities for Greener Growth
Manish Bapna and Deborah Seligsohn This article first appeared in the South China Morning Post.Confronted with a cooling economy and global headlines declaring an “Airpocalypse”, China faces...
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Emissions Trading in China: First Reports from the Field
Ranping Song and Hongpeng Lei When Tianjin launched its carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) on Dec 26th 2013, it became the fifth ETS operating in China, following Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, and...
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Panel: China’s Clean Energy Challenges
ChinaFAQs In a panel at the Brookings Institution moderated by ChinaFAQs expert Kenneth Lieberthal, ChinaFAQs experts Sarah Forbes, Kelly Sims Gallagher, and Jane Nakano discussed the challenges and...
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3 Ways the US and China Can Work Together for Responsible Shale Gas Development
Sarah Forbes This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:As China charts its energy future, the country is setting its sights on natural gas. The Chinese government aims to double the share...
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China’s performance on the 2014 Environmental Performance Index: What are the...
Angel Hsu and William Miao Amidst headlines detailing off-the-charts air pollution in Beijing, it may come as a surprise that China’s latest environmental scorecard does boast bright spots. The 2014...
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How U.S.-China Cooperation Can Expand Clean Energy Development
Sarah Forbes and Jonathan Moch This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:One year ago, the United States and China declared in their Joint Statement on Climate Change that “forceful,...
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China Approves Amendments to Environmental Protection Law
ChinaFAQs On Friday the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress voted to approve amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law. These amendments mark the first time China’s...
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New Weapons in the War on Pollution: China's Environmental Protection Law...
Barbara Finamore This post originally appeared on NRDC’s Switchboard Blog:On Thursday, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, approved major...
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5 ChinaFAQs Experts Testify Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security...
ChinaFAQs Friday April 25th, five ChinaFAQs experts testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission at a hearing entitled: U.S.-China Clean Energy Cooperation: Status,...
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China and the United States Accelerate Efforts on Carbon Capture and Storage
Sarah Forbes This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:China and the United States established eight new pacts this week to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.read more
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U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue Announcements on Climate Change...
Geoffrey Henderson Cooperation on climate change and air pollution were important themes of this week’s U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue held in Beijing, an annual meeting among high-level...
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The U.S. and China, Working Together to Speed the Benefits of Electric Vehicles
Huei Peng In 1896, American engineers faced a dilemma: what should power their new invention, the automobile? Henry Ford’s idea of a gasoline-powered car persuaded Thomas Edison not to pursue an...
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Cleaning China's Smoggy Skies: China Released Draft Air Pollution Law...
Barbara Finamore, Kate Logan, Marie McMullen, Tianshu Sun, Wang Yan, Wu Qi, Zhang Xiya, and Yuelin Zhou This post originally appeared on NRDC’s Switchboard Blog:Though a burst of clear skies on Monday...
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Climate negotiator previews China's approach to UN Climate Summit
Geoffrey Henderson China’s chief climate negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, held a press conference Friday and made statements that may preview China’s approach to the UN Climate Summit on September 23rd.Read...
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China’s “New Long March” through the UN Climate Summit: Context and...
Nathaniel Aden This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:The Long March was a watershed moment in Chinese history—the moment Mao Zedong’s nascent Communist Party escaped disaster in 1934 en...
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