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Posted in governance, policy, urban planning on Apr 18th, 2008
Over the past week or so, I’ve had the privilege to get some high level access to some of the leading academics and government officials in Chinese environmental policy and law here in Beijing. I was an observer at a private high-level roundtable discussion on Chinese environmental governance held at Tsinghua University this past Sunday.
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Posted in government on Mar 12th, 2008
Yesterday, the National People’s Congress announced moves to reorganize the central government by creating five so-called superministries, including one responsible for environmental protection via the upgrading of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) to ministry status. But the NPC stopped short of creating a unified organ to oversee the contentious issue of energy policy.
The government [...]
Posted in capital and finance, policy on Mar 11th, 2008
The central government, with Pan Yue (潘岳) of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) as its fearless green leader, has enacted a cyclone of green policies dubbed the “Green Whirlwinds”, coinciding with the “peaceful rise” of SEPA to a ministry-level administrative organ. Here’s a brief summary of the green credit, green insurance, green securities [...]
