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Voices That Carry–Advocating for Carbon Caps in China

An influential voice from within calls for hard carbon emission targets.
A prominent policy academic has urged China to bind itself to carbon emission reductions. The substance of the academic’s message is not new–that as a (the?) world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases, China should take active steps to curb emissions. What is new is that [...]

September 9th, 2008 | Tags: China, climate change, common but differentiated responsibilities, Hu Angang, policy, Thomas Friedman, United States | Category: climate change, policy | Comments (8)

China in spotlight as Bali climate talks begin

Today’s headlines were predictably dominated by the new two-week round of Climate Change talks in Bali, Indonesia, participated by delegates of some 190 countries. This is the round where it is expected that negotiations for a successor protocol to the Kyoto Protocol, once the latter expires in 2012, are to commence (and hopefully conclude within [...]

December 3rd, 2007 | Tags: China, climate change, common but differentiated responsibilities, India, Kyoto Protocol, technology transfer, U.S., UNFCCC | Category: climate change, policy | Comments (2)

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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.