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Green Hops: Green People’s Congress, Beijing Solar Thermal Plant, Forestry Initiatives

This edition of Green Hops is dedicated to Andrew Symon, a Singapore-based journalist specializing in energy and whom I have had the pleasure and honor of making an acquaintance of as a result of his writings at Asia Times Online. He passed away unexpectedly on February 24, 2009. Andrew’s generosity, sense of mission and powerful [...]

March 12th, 2009 | Tags: agriculture, biomass, CFL, China, COD, emissions trading, energy, energy efficiency, environment, food, forestation, green hops, international trade, pollution, solar, water | Category: agriculture, automotive, biofuels, capital and finance, climate change, collaboration, energy efficiency, government, green hops, rural development, smart grid, solar, transportation, water | Comments (4)

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 [...]

October 7th, 2008 | Tags: capital and finance, carbon trading, Chicago Climate Exchange, China, China Beijing Environment Exchange, clean development mechanism, climate change, CO2, COD, emissions trading, Richard Sandor, SO2, technhology transfer, Tianjin Climate Exchange | Category: capital and finance, climate change | Comments (3)

Hong Kong may set up emissions trading market

Hong Kong is entering into race to open Asia’s first pollution credits exchange. The International Herald Tribune reports that The board of the Hong Kong stock exchange is considering a proposal today a pollution emissions trading system that could serve as a financial platform for companies from mainland China and other Asian countries entering into what [...]

December 12th, 2007 | Tags: capital and finance, emissions trading, Hong Kong | Category: capital and finance | 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.