The Lighter Side of Climate

Posted by Deborah Seligsohn on Jan 20, 2010

China’s Biggest Earth Day Ever

On a lighter note, news is out that China’s enormous Bird Cage Olympic Stadium will host a free concert for peace and green right before Earth Day on April 17 this year. Organizers have not explained how they are financing a free concert or how the tickets will be distributed. As others have noted, big concert events like this have run aground in the past in China. Earth Day has been increasingly popular in China in recent years, with numerous conferences as well as public awareness events. Global Village Beijing launched its anti-plastic bag campaign on Earth Day a few years ago, and ultimately that effort resulted in Beijing’s ban on free shopping bags.

Even Lighter: Bare-legged Protesters

In Guangzhou a group of Climate Protesters stripped to their underwear on the subway to make the statement that the world is getting warmer and raise public awareness for global warming. They said they’d been inspired by an improv group in the U.S., which apparently does something similar on the subway, but without the link to global warming.

Photo by Wang Qian, courtesy of an Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic License.

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Experts In the News

February 02, 2012

Mikkal Herberg analyzes China’s energy security in “China’s resources policy attracts attention of Congress”, Asia Times

January 27, 2012

Deborah Seligsohn on Beijing city’s implementation of new air quality measures in “Beijing’s New Year surprise: PM 2.5 readings”, CNN

January 25, 2012

Trevor Houser discusses China and India in the European Union’s oil embargo in “Iran’s Oil Pipedream”, The Wall Street Journal

January 23, 2012

Kenneth Lieberthal comments on Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House next month, Reuters

January 23, 2012

Angel Hsu comments on China’s position among emerging economies in new environmental performance index, Financial Times

Experts

Experts

Name: Nathaniel Aden , World Resources Institute
Name: Edward Cunningham , Boston University
Name: Erica Downs , The Brookings Institution
Name: Meredydd Evans , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Name: Barbara Finamore , Natural Resources Defense Council
Name: Sarah Forbes , World Resources Institute
Name: David Fridley , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Name: Kelly Sims Gallagher , Tufts University
Name: Banning Garrett , Atlantic Council
Name: Stephen Hammer , Columbia University / MIT
Name: Mikkal Herberg , Pacific Council on International Policy
Name: Isabel Hilton , Chinadialogue
Name: Trevor Houser , Peterson Institute for International Economics
Name: S.T. Hsieh , Tulane University
Name: Angel Hsu , Yale University
Name: Robert Kapp , Robert A. Kapp and Associates
Name: Albert Keidel , Atlantic Council
Name: David Kline , National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Name: Bo Kong , Johns Hopkins University
Name: Michael Levi , Council on Foreign Relations
Name: Mark Levine , Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Name: Joanna Lewis , Georgetown University
Name: Kenneth Lieberthal , The Brookings Institution
Name: Denise Mauzerall , Princeton University
Name: Irving Mintzer , Potomac Energy Fund
Name: Kevin Mo , Natural Resources Defense Council
Name: Chris Nielsen , Harvard University
Name: Rose Niu , World Wildlife Fund
Name: Stephanie Ohshita , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Name: Lynn Price , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Name: David Pumphrey , Center for Strategic and International Studies
Name: JingJing Qian , Natural Resources Defense Council
Name: Rod Quinn , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Name: Deborah Seligsohn , World Resources Institute
Name: Monisha Shah , National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Name: Bo Shen , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Name: Edward Steinfeld , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Name: Kevin Tu , Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Name: Jennifer Turner , Woodrow Wilson Center
Name: Alex Wang , UC Berkeley Boalt Law School
Name: Elizabeth Wilson , University of Minnesota
Name: Zhang Xiaoquan , The Nature Conservancy
Name: Nan Zhou , Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Data Sources

BP Statistical Review of World Energy
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (ORNL)
China Energy Databook (LBNL)
Climate Analysis Indicator Tool (CAIT)
Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR)
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
International Energy Agency (IEA)
The World Bank
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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