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Green Hops: Water Forum, Gasoline Price Hikes, Guangdong LED

Editor’s Note: This edition of Green Hops contains an inexplicably frequent number of references to Guangzhou and Guangdong. We wonder why that might be…

Water issues continue to dominate China’s environmental agenda thanks to the recent World Water Forum in Turkey. The forum ended pathetically, failing to recognize water as a basic human right. But in [...]

April 2nd, 2009 | Tags: agriculture, automotive, China, circular economy, climate change, energy, energy efficiency, environment, fishery, forestry, green hops, grid, Guangdong, Guangzhou, hydro, Macao, policy, recycling, renewable energy, solar, train, transportation, urban planning, water | Category: agriculture, automotive, climate change, energy efficiency, green hops, hydro, policy, recylcling, smart grid, solar, uncategorized, urban planning, water | Comments (5)

Green Hops: Autos, Nukes, Agro, Recycling Woes

Energy Price Reforms
NDRC announced that it would be removing price caps on coal from next year in a move towards a more market-driven price mechanism. This move comes at an opportune time when coal prices have dropped by 30 to 40% since the summer, but GLF points out an earlier post (see finding #4) on [...]

December 29th, 2008 | Tags: agriculture, automotive, Beijing, BP, BYD Auto, capital and finance, China, circular economy, cleaner coal, coal, electric vehicles, environment, fuel tax, Gansu, gas, green credit, green hops, green insurance, green whirlwinds, Guangdong, Guangxi, Himin Solar, Hubei, nuclear, oil, plug-in hybrids, policy, pollution, price controls, recycling, renewable energy, scrap, solar, Taiwan, venture capital, wind, Xinjiang, Zhejiang | Category: automotive, capital and finance, coal, government, green hops, nuclear, oil, policy, recylcling, solar, transportation, uncategorized, water | Leave a comment

Green Hops: Cleantech Roundup

Cleantech news has been slow on The Green Leap Forward lately, so we play catchup on recent developments in the sector over the past two months…

Efficiency is King. Energy efficiency continues to be the clean energy policy priority of Beijing. New regulations governing energy efficiency in civil construction projects are on the cards, [...]

September 22nd, 2008 | Tags: automotive, Beijing, bus rapid transit, BYD Auto, China, China Light & Power, clean coal, cleantech, coal liquefaction, coal-to-liquids, energy efficiency, energy storage, GE, green taxation, green whi, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hong Kong, liquefied natural gas, Ningxia, policy, renewable energy, Shanghai, solar, Taiwan, transportation, water, water scarcity, wind, Xiamen, Yingli Green Energy | Category: automotive, climate change, coal, energy efficiency, government, green hops, policy, solar, transportation, water, wind | Comments (2)

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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.