Cleaner Greener China

Steve Papermaster - Powershift Ventures - President Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
US Energy issues 2008/ 2009
- volatility in oil markets has highlighted the concept of “global markets”
- investment oil exploration and production resumed, but many projects have been delayed
- ethanol drove food prices up
Trends that are historically not predictable on the short term, [...]

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For the next 2 days, I will be at the JUCCCE 2008 Beijing conference covering the action.  With handy cam in tow, I will be live blogging the events and interviewing panelists/ participants.
Check back soon, and if there is a topic that you would like for me to attend on your behalf let me know.

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WWF, Greenpeace, and The Energy Foundation have just released the 74 page report The True Cost of Coal (PDF Here) that looks at the role of coal in China’s society.. and its toll on the society.
To introduce the topics of the report, Greenpeace has loaded the video below that runs through a number of the [...]

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A topic I have covered before, this Erenlai clip covers a lot of ground on the history of China’s forestry practices, the problems the deforestation of China has created, and a few solutions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKCOHnmtghA

Opening up with a lot of statistics on China’s wood usage/ forestry coverage, and its three periods of major deforestation that left only [...]

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The Future Leaders Team at the World Business Council for Social Development have put together this 2 minute clip to show how we need to work together as one:
Three protagonists work together to balance the world, and discover that this balance can only be achieved with all three business, governments and NGOs working together.
All [...]

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Last week while writing up a review of Sinopec’s Sustainability report (PDF Download here), I was caught off guard by the approach they took in constructing the report.
It read more like a CSR report, its focus was not on raw material usage, carbon footprint, and solar panelse, and even their order of priorities when they [...]

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As China has developed, its need to scoop up the world’s natural resources to fuel its needs has affected nearly every market in the world.
China’s appetitite for wood is something that has been nearly as contriversial as its appetite for oil as large areas of Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Burma, and South American countries have [...]

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The WWF in China has been in China longer than any other environmental NGOs.  Originally invited by the Ministry of Forestry to assist on Pandas, they have grown across China and now manage a wide variety of programs related to the environmental conditions.
In their recent report, Ecological Footprint in China, WWF worked with the International [...]

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After 2 weeks of walking past and admiring a new WWF campaign, I finally remembered to bring my camera.
What I like about it is that it takes three of the biggest energy wasting habits and has developed a simple campaign around this issues (air conditioning, lighting, and water).

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