Cleaner Greener China: Clean Technology, Green Products, New Ideas, Clean China

Even with the recent rise in awareness, and seemingly endless announcements that things were changing at the highest levels, there is yet another sobering reminder of the costs of economic development. The pollution on China’s Yellow River, mother river, is worsening… the organization monitored 12,510.8 km of the Yellow River system, of which, 31.1 percent [...]

The Reuters report China cuts key water, air pollutants in early 2008 offers readers some hope that some of the recent actions taken to curb pollution may be working. Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), a measure of water pollution, dropped by 2.5 percent from the same period last year as new sewage plants came online, while [...]

China’s Energy – Challenges and Strategies by Professor Ni Weidou Academician, Chinese Academy of Science “We are running out of the atmosphere faster than we’re running out of fossil fuels” 5 Challenges in China: 1) Huge pressure for energy by 2020. From 2010 to 2020 energy demand will double according to estimates that are under-calculating; [...]

In the Business Green coverage of Climate Change Capital’s plan to enter into China, the China MD Ka Keung Chan made the statement: “There are a lot of cheap assets lying out there,” he told Reuters. “If you see the right company, this is the best time to negotiate.” followed by founder James Cameron “Out [...]

During last week’s JUCCCE Conference, we were introduced to the new TV Series Red Hot Green China.

WWF recently released their 2008 Living Planet Report that lays out a compelling case for how interconnected our activities are with the rest of the earth, and the impact we in our process of extracting and consuming the earth’s resources are having. The Living Planet Report is WWF’s periodic update on the state of the [...]

Written by Joanna  Lewis, China’s Strategic Priorities in International Climate Change Negotiations, is a very interesting report on the drivers behind China’s energy consumption, the areas that they are looking to reduce energy intensity, and what this means for the rest of us. The paper does a nice job of presenting the history of the [...]

Close on the heels of the recent Wal-Mart supplier conference where new supply chain management measures were announced, the article Eco-shopping helps Beijing improve its environment take a look at Wal-Mart’s efforts to green its boxes. the article opens with a valid question: Do consumers ever think about how much energy they consume as they [...]

In his report Can China’s coal industry be reconciled with the environment? (PDF Download Available Here), Xunpeng Shi takes a closer look at how energy intensity is measure, the level of emissions in China, and what that means. To draw conclusions, he leverages two models: 1) is a fixed effects panel (WGE denotes pollutant emissions) [...]

the last session I was able to stay for was from Dow, and after seeing it, I have come to once again question the use of statistics – and just how easy it is to play with the denominator of an equation to make one”s self look better… that somehow going through 800,000 barrels a [...]