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Category Archives: Policies and Issues
Chinese Management Rare Earth Metals
6 months ago when it became clear that China was going to act in a manner that defended its reserves or rare metals, it provided an opportunity perhaps the first public discussion on the fact that our reliance on these … Continue reading
Study of Environmental Health in China.
In this month’s Lancelot, a group of 6 authors have published the 10 page article Environmental health in China: progress towards clean air and safe water, and I would highly recommend readers take the time to download the paper (right … Continue reading
Drought in SouthWest China Drains Lakes and Rivers
For those readers who think that climate change is about “carbon”, or that it is something that will be faced in the future, I highly recommend spending 3 minutes to watch the above clip.. because for China, water is THE … Continue reading
US Vs. China Energy Intensity Chart.
Once you start looking at charts, you just cannot stop, and following my post last week of , I cam across this interesting chart in the post China Adapts to the Climate Change Fashion Show which plots energy intensities for … Continue reading
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Tagged cleantech, energy efficiency, investment, regulation
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Chengdu Environmental News for February 2009
1. Chengdu promised: to give “one hour to the world” On February 1st, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced that the Municipal Government of Chengdu had promised on January 29th that it participate in the activity of the … Continue reading
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Tagged chengdu, investment, Transportation, urban planning
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Cigar Smoking in Shanghai’s Restaurants
A bit of a rant here, but why is it that within many of Shanghai’s restaurants it is still considered acceptable to smoke a cigar? Over the weekend, while enjoying my lunch with a friend in a cafe where the … Continue reading
Chengdu Environmental News for January 2009
1) Chengdu eventually achieved 315 days of fine air quality in 2009 On December 16th, 2009, the number of days with fair air quality in the downtown Chengdu achieved 15 days earlier the livelihood project goal put forward by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, carbon, chengdu, Energy, LED
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Does Your Firm Understand its Climate Change Risk?
Earlier this week at an event, I was speaking with the Sustainability Director of a large FMCG firm discussing what the outcome of the Copenhagen negotiations meant for business like the one he represented (his firm is a bit of … Continue reading
Why Copenhagen Failed. Getting Beyond Who is a Fault
View more presentations from Cleaner Greener China. It has been nearly a month since the 15000 (or so) people descended upon Copenhagen to hammer through what was to be “the biggest moment” of our lives, to address the BIGGEST ISSUE … Continue reading
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Haibao’s Fuxing Christmas Tree
Following the recent holiday, I found the above tree that mixed the new (haibao) with the old (a packet of Double Happiness) as a strange reminder of just how far we have yet to go.