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Green Hops: New Renewable Energy Targets, More Carbon Tax Chatter,...
China’s energy intensity was down 2.9% in the first quarter of this year, reports the National Bureau of Statistics. The decrease is based on a 6.1% growth in GDP measured against a 3.04% increase in...
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Much Ado About Solar II
…and we’re back! Apologies of the prolonged dormancy, but yours truly has been busy lately transitioning to his new day job. But no time to waste! Let’s pick things up really quickly with some...
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Wall Street Journal blows story on China solar feed-in tariffs
It seemed too good to be true. I had barely completed my own “3 trillion reasons” dance when I receive an email with a link to this Wall Street Journal report which suggested to me that the Chinese...
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China’s Climate Progress by the Numbers
“This is the most comprehensive discussion I’ve seen of everything China is doing to green itself.” – Joe Romm, editor of Climate Progress. “THIS IS A MUST READ.” – Peggy Liu, chairperson of Joint...
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Moon Landing, Solar Eclipse, and now…Solar Takeoff! China launches “Golden...
This post is dedicated to my “golden son/sun”, Keane, who just turned one yesterday. It is with interesting irony that China has launched its much anticipated Golden Sun program of incentives for the...
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China in Copenhagen Day 2: Danish Distraction; Su Wei Gets Tough on the...
This guest post is by Angel Hsu and Christopher Kieran, both graduate students at Yale University reporting live from Copenhagen exclusively for The Green Leap Forward. The China Information and...
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Radio Interview on China balancing both shades of Green
I was on Worldfocus radio last night with Rashid Kang of Greenpeace China for a general discussion moderated by Martin Savidge on China’s ambitions to green its economy (the other shade of green)....
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Let’s take a break from the heavy reading and enjoy some great video clips. The first two are first and third place winners of the UNFCCC/CDM International Video Contest 2009 (the theme was “How the...
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Good Cop, Bad Cop – Analyzing The Copenhagen Accord
What a dramatic sprint to the finish lime of COP15! When all was said and done, what resulted in the form of the Copenhagen Accord (available here) was a non-binding three-page agreement which the...
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Solar Hops: US-China Cooperation; Provinces Get Going; Suntech Shining Strong
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...
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