There have been mixed messages lately about whether China will soon adopt a carbon emissions trading scheme. On the eve of President Hu Jintao’s speech at the UN Climate Summit in New York last month, Times Online ran a sensationally misleading story suggesting that China would adopt a carbon emissions trading scheme that would [...]
The China Carbon Forum 2008 was held at the Renaissance Capital Hotel in Beijing on October 15 and 16. The Green Leap Forward was on site to measure the pulse of China’s carbon markets, but did not leave terribly optimistic. In truth, the speakers at the forum did a good job of highlighting a lot [...]
This is an environmental “Tale of Two Cities.” Two weeks ago, The Green Leap Forward (GLF) attended two separate events introducing two separate emissions rights exchanges in two separate cities. The first was an event hosted by the China Carbon Forum on Sept 23 in the capital, featuring as its main event a presentation introducing [...]
