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Guardian names @GreenLeapFwd as one of “Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow”

My blogging has been irregular as of late due to heavy commitments with my day job, but to compensate, I hope my blog readers have also been following my regular tweets at @GreenLeapFwd.  Today,The Guardian named me among the “Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow“, and #4 among climate bloggers.  A great honor!
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The Energy and Climate Registry: A New Initiative Toward Carbon Disclosure in Southern China.

A guest post by Lucia Green-Weiskel (pictured right) who describes a groundbreaking initiative in Guangdong to set up a greenhouse gas registry.
For the last 20 years there has been a global effort to quantify and more accurately understand greenhouse gas emissions. China and the United States - which together are responsible for 40 percent of [...]

Senate Foreign Relations Hearing: China will not accept caps, but must be pushed to MRV

Last Thursday (June 4), the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations conducted a hearing with the self-explanatory title of “Challenges and Opportunities for U.S.-China Cooperation in Climate Change.”  An all-star trio of China hands provided testimony: Kenneth Lieberthal of University of Michigan and visiting fellow at Brookings Institution, Elizabeth Economy of Council on Foreign [...]

JUCCCE Clean Energy Forum–Closing Summary

The following is the complete transcript, modified and supplemented for completeness and readability, of the closing speech that the author of this blog (pictured below) delivered on November 11 at the JUCCCE Clean Energy Forum in Beijing.
We are at war.  A world war.  But unlike World War I or II, this is not a war [...]

Energy Efficiency: Getting more JUCCCE per unit of GDP

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 [...]

Greening corporate disclosure

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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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.

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