Yesterday on March 4, my colleagues and I finally released this long-awaited report “Out of the Running? How Germany, Spain, and China Are Seizing the Energy Opportunity and Why the United States Risks Getting Left Behind” (picture of the report cover, pictured right). As the title implies, it is a survey of how three [...]
Earlier this week I appeared on Minnesota Public Radio with Georgetown University’s Joanna Lewis for 45 minutes of conversation on how China is taking the clean energy challenge by its neck and running with it. Here’s the full audio to the discussion:
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The show was clearly motivated by the recent New York Times front page story [...]
Happy New Year! Hope you are are staying warm, especially for those of you in northern China stuck in the worse winter storm in six decades.
Let’s kick off the new year with yet another Top Ten list, taking a look back at the best blog posts on GLF in 2009. Last time, we attempted to [...]
The National Energy Bureau, which falls under the might NDRC, released its list of top ten developments in China’s energy industry for 2009. Here’s the list which I translated, some of which I’ve blogged before (and hyperlinked), and some of which I will discuss in future posts:
1. China sets 2020 targets to raise non-fossil fuel’s [...]
By Angel Hsu and Andrew Barnett, part of Yale University’s “Team China” blogging live from Copenhagen.
As we predicted from the beginning, the negotiations in Copenhagen are coming down to two countries that could make or break a deal - China and the United States. As we mentioned in our post on Day 9, the [...]
Guest post by Angel Hsu and Christopher Kieran, part of “Team China” tracking the Chinese delegation live from Copenhagen
While the drama surrounding the Guardian’s leak of a “secret” Danish negotiating text seems to be fizzling down (see our previous post), this was most likely due in some part to a small island nation now famous here in [...]
This guest post is by Angel Hsu and Christopher Kieran, both graduate students at Yale University reporting live from Copenhagen exclusively for The Green Leap Forward.
The China Information and Communication Center （中国新闻与交流中心） held an unpublicized press briefing featuring Su Wei (pictured center of panel), China’s lead negotiator and Director-General of the NDRC’s Department of Climate [...]
Today marks the second anniversary of The Green Leap Forward.
Its been a real honor to bring news and analysis on China’s energy and environmental situation to the English-speaking world. GLF’s second year saw 65 new posts, roughly the same as the first (62) despite two major geographical relocations (Beijing -> Singapore -> Washington, D.C.) on [...]
“We cannot pursue GDP with blood.” Li Zhanshu, Governor of Heilongjiang province
Pictured right, rescuers get ready to go down into the pit to search for survivors at the site of the accident at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province on Nov. 22, 2009. (Photo credit: Xinhua, via China Daily)
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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 [...]
