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Wall Street Journal blows story on China solar feed-in tariffs

It seemed too good to be true. I had barely completed my own “3 trillion reasons” dance when I receive an email with a link to this Wall Street Journal report which suggested to me that the Chinese government had read and taken to heart the policy prescription of my solar policy article. WSJ said:
China [...]

June 4th, 2009 | Tags: China, Dunhuang, energy, environment, feed-in tariff, Gansu, solar | Category: solar | Comments (2)

Jiangsu Kicks Off Domestic Solar Market Race with Provincial Subsidies

A look at Jiangsu Province’s newly reported solar incentives and further reflections on the national Solar Roof Program.
Fast on the heels of the new national solar subsidies (Solar Roof Program) announced last week by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (see previous post), a report (Chinese only) yesterday says [...]

April 1st, 2009 | Tags: China, energy, environment, feed-in tariff, Jiangsu, solar, subsidies | Category: policy, solar | Comments (3)

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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.