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Q and A on China's Carbon Intensity Target with Zou Ji, WRI's China Director

Posted by Zou Ji on Mar 5, 2010

China recently confirmed an ambitious goal to reduce its economy’s carbon intensity by 40-45% from 2005 levels by 2020. WRI’s China Director Zou Ji, a former Chinese climate negotiator, discusses the significance of this step by the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, and what it means for China’s relations with the United States and the world.

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ChinaFAQs: An Emerging Revolution: Clean Technology Research, Development and Innovation in China

Posted by ChinaFAQs on Mar 1, 2010

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ChinaFAQs_Clean_Technology_in_China.pdf

China’s policies to prioritize, fund and deploy clean technology R&D and innovation over the short and medium term stem from an ambition to emerge as a global power in science and technology through clean technology R&D and innovation.

Solar Hops: US-China Cooperation; Provinces Get Going; Suntech Shining Strong

Posted by Julian Wong on Feb 23, 2010

Its been a while since we've had an extensive discussion of China's solar market. Here, we catch up with some of the major the developments in this space over the past half year or so -- A new US-China dynamic highlighted by two-large scale projects, policy action by provincial-level governments, and lots of activity by Chinese solar poster child Suntech, and more!

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What Does China Think About Climate Change and Copenhagen?

Posted by Deborah Seligsohn on Feb 22, 2010

China’s Climate Change Minister Xie Zhenhua gave a speech January 9 at Beijing University’s Guanghua School of Management’s annual New Year’s Symposium (see the original Chinese text on the Sina website, but to assist our non-Chinese speaking readership we also provide our own informal translation in the ChinaFAQs library).

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Xie Zhenhua’s Speech at Peking University, Guanghua College of Management, January 2010

Posted by ChinaFAQs on Feb 22, 2010

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Xie_Zhenhua_translated_speech.pdf

See original Chinese text at: http://finance.sina.com.cn/hy/20100109/11137218805.shtml

(Unofficial, Informal Translation)

Distinguished guests, ladies, gentlemen, and Guanghua School professors and students, hello everyone!

I am very honored to participate in the famous Guanghua New Year Forum at Peking University. I was tasked by Professor Zhang Weiying to brief you about the Copenhagen Conference and the issues regarding low-carbon development. Climate change is a global issue, affecting the long-term development of each country, and requires strengthening international cooperation and adopting a fair and reasonable approach to solve. In 1990 the United Nations General Assembly established the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee. In 1994 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took effect. In 2005 the Kyoto Protocol took effect. In 2007 the Bali Road Map came into being, and last year the Copenhagen meeting took place. All these events witnessed the historical process of forming and coalescing international consensus on climate change issues. In the recently-concluded Copenhagen meeting, Premier Wen Jiabao comprehensively expounded China’s policies, measures, achievements and initiatives to address climate change issues. He reached out to leaders from relevant countries, and played a critical role in breaking the deadlocks of the negotiations.

Experts In the News

Deborah Seligsohn comments on former Chinese climate negotiator’s blunt challenge to industrialized nations in “China Sustains Blunt ‘You First’ Message on CO2”, New York Times Dot Earth blog, September 2, 2010

Alex Wang on why China and the U.S. should take lessons from and make investments in each other in “Why Greening China is a National Priority”, Earth911.com, August 30, 2010

Kenneth Lieberthal on Chinese investment in the U.S. in “American job creation 101: stop fretting over Chinese investment”, August 26, 2010, CNNmoney.com

Mark Levine on the trend of China’s energy use in “Will China Overwhelm Us With Greenhouse-Gas Emissions?”, Bay Citizen, August 18, 2010

Ed Steinfeld on China’s Technological Development and the West in “‘Playing Our Game’: Ed Steinfeld on China”, Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2010

Experts

Experts

Name: Nathaniel Aden , Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Name: Rob Bradley
Name: Edward Cunningham , Harvard 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
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: Daniel Kammen , University of California, Berkeley
Name: Robert Kapp , Robert A. Kapp and Associates
Name: Albert Keidel , Atlantic Council of the United States
Name: Mark Levine , Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Name: Joanna Lewis , Georgetown School of Foreign Service
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: Taiya Smith , Carnegie Endowment
Name: Edward Steinfeld , MIT
Name: Jennifer Turner , Woodrow Wilson Center
Name: Alex Wang , Natural Resources Defense Council
Name: Julian Wong , Center for American Progress
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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