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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)

Ready…set…jump!

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” [...]

December 2nd, 2007 | Tags: China, coal, energy, energy efficiency, energy intensity, environment, forestation, green credit policy, James Kynge | Category: capital and finance, policy | Comments (1)

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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.