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China to adopt “binding” goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45% of 2005 levels by 2020

* Update Nov 28: additional commentary below by Yu Qingtai on issue of “measurable, reportable and verifiable”
* Update Nov 29: Rough calculations on what the goal means for total emissions by 2020.
So what is a “notable margin“? That question has apparently been answered today.
Today, the State Council announced that China will commit to reduce its [...]

November 26th, 2009 | Tags: carbon intensity, China, climate change, energy, environment, greenhouse gas inventory, MRV, statistics | Category: climate change | Comments (12)

Announcements of U.S.-China Cooperation Create a Path to Copenhagen Success

More perspectives on the announcements coming out of Beijing, this time focusing on the implications on Copenhagen. Co-written with my colleague Andrew Light and originally published here.
The United States and China announced on Tuesday a package of cooperative agreements on clean energy and climate change that are remarkable in both breadth and ambition (see previous [...]

November 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, China, Copenhagen, energy, energy intensity, greenhouse gas inventory, international collaboration, MRV, U.S. | Category: climate change, collaboration | Comments (4)

Obama and Hu announce comprehensive strategy for clean energy and climate change collaboration

As expected, the U.S.-China presidential summit in Beijing yielded an agreement on clean energy and climate change that focused on collaboration rather than emissions target setting (see my comments in Time.com and China Daily). Here’s a run-down on what this cooperation entails, in a piece published simultaneously at Climate Progress with my colleague Andrew [...]

November 17th, 2009 | Tags: automotive, carbon capture and storage, China, China Environment Fund, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas inventory, international collaboration, MRV, nuclear, renewable energy | Category: automotive, carbon capture and storage, collaboration, energy efficiency, nuclear | Comments (5)

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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.