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The “how much” and “how to” of China’s goal to reduce carbon intensity

In September, President Hu Jintao announced that China will seek to reduce its carbon emissions per unit of GDP, or carbon intensity, by a “noticeable margin” (see previous post “China’s Carbon Intensity Plans and its Impacts on Climate Progress“). The world has been waiting with bated breath to learn just how noticeable this margin [...]

November 19th, 2009 | Tags: carbon capture and storage, carbon intensity, carbon tax, CCICED, China, climate change, energy, environment | Category: carbon capture and storage, climate change, uncategorized | Comments (2)

Obama and Hu announce comprehensive strategy for clean energy and climate change collaboration

As expected, the U.S.-China presidential summit in Beijing yielded an agreement on clean energy and climate change that focused on collaboration rather than emissions target setting (see my comments in Time.com and China Daily). Here’s a run-down on what this cooperation entails, in a piece published simultaneously at Climate Progress with my colleague Andrew [...]

November 17th, 2009 | Tags: automotive, carbon capture and storage, China, China Environment Fund, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas inventory, international collaboration, MRV, nuclear, renewable energy | Category: automotive, carbon capture and storage, collaboration, energy efficiency, nuclear | Comments (5)

Dr. Wang Tao Responds to Questions on Tyndall Centre Report

June 23rd, 2009 | Tags: agriculture, carbon capture and storage, CCS, China, cliamte change, energy, environment, low carbon development, scenarios, Tyndall Centre, Wang Tao | Category: agriculture, carbon capture and storage, climate change, government, uncategorized | Leave a comment

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What is the Green Leap Forward?

The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1960 which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform mainland China from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers into a modern, industrialized communist society. It is now widely seen, both within and outside of China, as an major economic (and environmental) disaster.

By contrast, the Green Leap Forward, is an emerging movement to harness and combine the powerful forces of smart policy, sustainable finance and green technologies to steer China's red-hot economy onto a more ecologically and socially sustainable path. Unlike its predecessor, the Green Leap Forward is as much a bottom-up revolution as it is a top-down one and in this age of increasing global interconnectedness, is a movement that will have an impact beyond its borders.