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Green Hops: Cold Snap, Renewables Boost, Water Woes

A news round up of energy and environment news in China over the past 4 weeks or so, sans analysis.
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Northern China was swept with a harsh cold snap that over northern China over the weekend. Beijing, for its part, experienced its largest snowfall in six decades, a lowest temperatures in four decades (at minus 16 [...]

January 6th, 2010 | Tags: automotive, biofuels, China, coal, energy, environment, forestry, green hops, grid, LNG, rail, renewable energy, smart grid, transportation, water, wind | Category: automotive, biofuels, coal, green hops, smart grid, transportation, water, wind | Comments (1)

Green Hops: Energy Law & Plan, Big 5 Subsidized, Installed Wind Doubles

Today’s Green Hops, focusing on energy supply, is a continuation of yesterday’s.
Two important macro-policy documents are in the works. CELB reports that the comprehensive Energy Law may be passed in 2010 (though this Chinese clipping suggests it may be as early as this year), and that the 12th Five-Year Plan for Energy (2011-2015) is in [...]

February 13th, 2009 | Tags: biofuels, China, coal, energy, environment, green hops, grid, hydropower, LNG, natural gas, nuclear, oil, renewable energy, solar, wind | Category: biofuels, government, green hops, hydro, nuclear, oil, policy, smart grid, solar, wind | Leave a comment

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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.