The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进

After more than two and a half years of blogging, I am sad to announce that I will have to take an indefinite break from contributing original pieces to this site.
Starting Monday, I begin a new stint with

July 31st, 2010 | Category: uncategorized | Comments (8)

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 [...]

March 5th, 2010 | Tags: China, energy, environment, finance, infrastructure, policy | Category: capital and finance, policy, uncategorized | Comments (2)

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 [...]

February 11th, 2010 | Category: uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 [...]

January 4th, 2010 | Tags: China, climate change, energy, environment | Category: uncategorized | Comments (2)

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 [...]

December 31st, 2009 | Tags: China, energy, environment | Category: uncategorized | Comments (1)

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 [...]

December 17th, 2009 | Tags: China, China Association of Resources Comprehensive Utilizatio, China in Copenhagen, climate change, COP15, environment, MRV | Category: climate change, uncategorized | Comments (5)

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 [...]

December 9th, 2009 | Tags: China, China in Copenhagen, climate change, COP15, energy, environment, Tuvalu | Category: climate change, uncategorized | Comments (13)

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 [...]

December 8th, 2009 | Tags: China, China in Copenhagen, climate change, COP15, Copenhagen, energy, environment | Category: climate change, government, solar, uncategorized | Comments (18)

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 [...]

December 2nd, 2009 | Tags: China, eco-infratructure, energy, environment, Happy Birthday, water | Category: uncategorized | Leave a comment