Cleaner Greener China

Last week in Washington, DC, the folks who created the famous carbon abatement cost curve for the U.S. were on Capitol Hill to talk about China’s potential for greening its economy.
Jonathan Woetzel, director of McKinsey & Company’s Shanghai Office presented highlights from their recent report, “China’s Green Revolution,” and offered suggestions about where US [...]

What Can We Learn from Urbanization Policy: Evidence from County-to-City Upgrading in China is a recently published paper that looks at the lessons learned from China’s urbanization policy – how it has worked and how it has failed.
Based on county-level data collected from a series of local public finance
statistics and the China 1990 and 2000 [...]

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 Central [...]

For me, there are few issues more important than water in China.  It is a resource that is becoming scarce in the North, and for many, its contamination is an issue that threatens economic security and health.
to that end, I want to highlight the recently released World Bank report Water Pollution Emergencies In China, prevention [...]

In what may be the most ambitious and amusing statement to date, China has called on rich nations to slash emissions by 95%.
More specifically:
The Chinese government said in a statement that in a preliminary step to tackle global warming emissions, the proposal seeks cuts of 25% to 40% by 2020 from 1990’s level
Surely, this is [...]