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Green Hops: BASIC Instinct, New Energy Plans, Natural Gas Deals

Green Hops is back after a six month absence!
Climate Negotiations
Days after China announced its carbon intensity target, and not to long after both China and India committed to the “full transparency” of their mitigation actions and to “stand by these commitments,” it seems like they have both take a few steps back.  Over the past [...]

China Carbon Forum 2008 Review

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 [...]

Tianjin to Win the Environmental Exchange Race?

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 [...]

Pig Power—Rural development through biogas digesters

One of the themes of Chinese energy policy is the use of renewable, distributive energy solutions to aid rural development. One of the more successful rural energy development strategies is the use of biogas digesters, which involves a process whereby organic material such as agricultural or animal waste are broken down by specific types of [...]

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 [...]

The Energy Implications of the Sichuan Earthquake

The Green Leap Forward joins the people of China and the rest of the world in these few days of mourning over the victims of the Sichuan earthquake (see all the coverage on China Daily here). We also join arms with our brothers and sisters in Myanmar who are dealing a horrific natural catastrophe of [...]


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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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