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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 The purpose of this hearing was to examine China’s domestic and international clean energy policies, as well as the state of U.S.-China cooperation on clean energy, in order to provide...
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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. Half of these...
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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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Chinese official: Chinese and US Climate Action Linked
Geoffrey Henderson Li Junfeng, director general of China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy, says China is studying its climate action options. In an article on the UN Climate Summit, The...
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Press Call on U.S.-China Climate Discussions
Lauren Zelin, Paul Joffe and Geoffrey Henderson When President Obama and President Xi Jinping meet next week in Beijing, climate change and energy will be important topics of discussion. As the...
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US and China Strike Deal on Climate Change -- "Now You're Talking"
Paul Joffe This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:The American expression “now you’re talking,” actually means “now you’re getting real.” Getting real on steps to confront climate change...
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Hank Paulson: A Time of Leadership on Climate Change
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Secretaries of Commerce and Energy to Lead Clean Energy Trade Mission to China
Geoffrey Henderson U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz recently announced plans for a Business Development Mission to China in April, intended to promote U.S....
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Daniel Kammen on Implementing the U.S.-China Climate Accord
Geoffrey Henderson ChinaFAQs expert Dan Kammen describes the implications of the U.S.-China climate accord for the international climate negotiations and for each country. Kammen emphasizes the...
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Making Plans: Steps in Development of China's Crucial 13th Five Year Plan
Geoffrey Henderson ChinaFAQs expert Angel Hsu and her team at Yale’s Environmental Performance Measurement program have developed an interactive timeline that lays out the steps China is expected to...
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U.S.-China Accord Includes Important Steps on Non-Fossil Energy
Lin Jiang The U.S.-China joint announcement on climate change is an historic milestone to limit carbon pollution. This agreement between the world’s two top economies, which together emit nearly 45...
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Coal Limits and Possible Early Carbon Peak Previewed by China Climate and...
Geoffrey Henderson Professor Qi Ye, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, commented at London-based think tank IPPR on his expectations for China’s upcoming 13th Five Year Plan,...
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Reports from China Suggest Low-Carbon Shift in 2014
Geoffrey Henderson Drawing on preliminary energy demand data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics, Bloomberg New Energy Finance has estimated that China’s carbon dioxide emissions fell by 2...
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