Tracking the emerging technological, commercial, political and social revolution that is greening China’s red-hot economy.
Posted in capital and finance, policy, uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2009
Somehow, we missed a November 2008 report by Friends of the Earth and BankTrack called The Green Evolution: Environmental Policies and Practice in China’s Banking Sector (click here for Chinese version) (henceforth the “Report”) which provides an excellent overview of the green finance activities, including China’s nascent Green Credit program (one of the Green Whirlwind [...]
Posted in uncategorized on Dec 31st, 2008
The Green Leap Forward looks back at 2008 and selects its “Top Five” stories.
Sort of.
A new year is upon us! But what a year 2008 was! Winter storms, the Sichuan earthquakes, the Beijing Olympics and the global financial crisis. A common thread? “Green,” says this China Daily article, which provides a pretty good summary of [...]
Posted in automotive, capital and finance, climate change, innovation, nuclear, policy, solar, transportation, uncategorized on Dec 22nd, 2008
GLF has been traveling and getting a little caught up on side projects, but let’s play some catchup. Let’s pick things up with two specific appointments by President-elect Obama which have implications for U.S.-China energy relations–one being the 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Steve Chu of Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL) as the new Secretary of [...]
Posted in automotive, energy efficiency, oil, policy, transportation on Dec 7th, 2008
The auto industry is front and center of the current financial-energy tsunami. Detroit is in big trouble, and in need of a life-line. Chinese automakers are faring better (and some have them tipped to be Detroit’s white knights), but the shakeout in China has played itself out in petroleum price reforms.
On Friday (Dec 5), [...]
A reader of our recent Watergy post pointed out to me that in China, other than for making steel, coal used in China (including those used for power) is seldom washed clean of its ash content before combustion. A recent op-ed in China Daily by Dr. Chuck Wells, Chief Technologist of OSIsoft, Inc., provides great [...]
Posted in uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2008
It was 366 days ago (yes 2008 was a leap year, and what a Green Leap year it has been!) that this blog was born. But as Cityweekend Beijing (ignore the misleading picture in the link though, that’s not me!) says in its green issue last wee:
To call the green roundup on Green Leap Forward [...]
Posted in automotive, capital and finance, climate change, government, green hops, hydro, transportation, water on Dec 1st, 2008
We’ve gone more than a month without a “Green Hops” update…what a crime! We atone for that oversight here…
Climate Change and International Cooperation
A “high level” summit in Beijing on international technology transfer and climate change held on November 7 and 8 provided a preview of the international climate change negotiations that have kicked off in [...]
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” [...]
