Peggy Liu, founder and Chairperson of Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) , an innovative bilateral public-private partnership based in Shanghai, speaks to The Green Leap Forward.
Energy cooperation was one of the key issues that underpinned the fourth US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue held last week. Vice-Premier Wang Qishan, the head of the Chinese delegation [...]
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If China’s Green Leap Forward fails for whatever reason, it won’t be because of the lack of cash. Generally speaking, it has never been better to be a clean tech entrepreneur or project developer. Investment dollars are pouring in globally from hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds, multinational corporations and development banks. [...]
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Posted in capital and finance, policy, wind on May 25th, 2008
The Chinese wind sector is booming and should continue to in the long run, but some discussions at the recent Renewable Energy Finance Forum-China 2008 in Beijing suggest some challenges ahead in the short to medium term.
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On May 14 and 15, I attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum (China) 2008 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel at Financial Street. My next couple of posts are inspired by some of the discussions that took place at this forum. Today’s post are mostly drawn from the first two sessions on May 14.
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Posted in capital and finance, policy on Mar 11th, 2008
The central government, with Pan Yue (潘岳) of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) as its fearless green leader, has enacted a cyclone of green policies dubbed the “Green Whirlwinds”, coinciding with the “peaceful rise” of SEPA to a ministry-level administrative organ. Here’s a brief summary of the green credit, green insurance, green securities [...]
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Publicly listed Chinese companies will soon be subject to heightened environmental disclosure requirements. It is reported that the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) is developing a set of disclosure rules that may go further than their Western analogues, potentially requiring the reporting of SO2 and CO2 emissions and energy efficiency indices (see, e.g. current [...]
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Posted in capital and finance on Dec 12th, 2007
Hong Kong is entering into race to open Asia’s first pollution credits exchange. The International Herald Tribune reports that The board of the Hong Kong stock exchange is considering a proposal today a pollution emissions trading system that could serve as a financial platform for companies from mainland China and other Asian countries entering into what [...]
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Posted in capital and finance, policy on Dec 2nd, 2007
Greetings all. Welcome to the kickoff of The Green Leap Forward, a blog dedicated to a greener China. As James Kynge observes in his award winning book–China Shakes the World–there exists in China a fundamental mismatch between “its frailty of its physical environment” on the one hand, and “the prodigious strength of its human capital” [...]
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