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Xiamen City: Urban Planning for Climate Change

I am really excited.

On May 10 (incidentally, but fittingly, Pangea Day) at the Xiamen Climate Change Symposium held at Xiamen University in Xiamen City, Fujian, I was introduced to an exciting opportunity for Xiamen City to undertake what has potential to be a truly groundbreaking project.

A consortium comprised by CHORA (an urban planning, architectural and [...]

May 31st, 2008 | Tags: architecture, CDM, China, Chora, urban planning, Xiamen | Category: CDM, climate change, urban planning | Comments (5)

Illusions of Reform and the Need for Integrated Governance

Over the past week or so, I’ve had the privilege to get some high level access to some of the leading academics and government officials in Chinese environmental policy and law here in Beijing. I was an observer at a private high-level roundtable discussion on Chinese environmental governance held at Tsinghua University this past Sunday.
One [...]

April 18th, 2008 | Tags: Chora, governance, green whirlwinds, integrated planning, Ministry of Environmental Protection, policy, reform, SEPA, urban planning, Xiamen | Category: governance, policy, urban planning | 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.