Tracking the emerging technological, commercial, political and social revolution to green China’s red-hot economy.
Posted in capital and finance, coal, energy efficiency, green hops, nuclear, policy on Aug 7th, 2008
More on the Green Olympics. Just one more day to the opening ceremonies! In our last post, we examined some of the stopgap measures that Beijing embarked on to deliver on its Green Olympics promises. Louis Schwartz, one of my favorite commentators on China’s clean tech scene, provides some juicy details of the kinds of [...]
Posted in CDM, automotive, capital and finance, energy efficiency, information strategies, policy, wind on Jun 25th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in coal, energy efficiency, policy on Jun 20th, 2008
China will raise the prices of gasoline and diesel prices at the pump by 17 to 18% and aviation kerosene by 25% starting today (June 20), and of electricity by some 4.7% starting July 1, according to the website (Chinese only) of the National Reform and Development Commission (NDRC). See also the news report by [...]
Posted in CDM, Uncategorized, capital and finance, energy efficiency, policy on Jun 12th, 2008
If China’s Green Leap Forward fails for whatever reason, it won’t be because of the lack of cash. Generally speaking, it has never been better to be a clean tech entrepreneur or project developer. Investment dollars are pouring in globally from hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds, multinational corporations and development banks. [...]
Posted in capital and finance, policy on Dec 2nd, 2007
Greetings all. Welcome to the kickoff of The Green Leap Forward, a blog dedicated to a greener China. As James Kynge observes in his award winning book–China Shakes the World–there exists in China a fundamental mismatch between “its frailty of its physical environment” on the one hand, and “the prodigious strength of its human capital” [...]
