Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
The leaders of the world asked for an extension on climate action in Singapore this past weekend. As Jake Schmidt points out, whether this is good or bad depends on how the leaders of the world's top emitters use this...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
The parade of pollution incidents in China has continued over the past few months and the Chinese (and international) media should be applauded for their continued coverage. In addition to pollution incidents in Shaanxi, Hunan, Inner Mongolia and elsewhere (see...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
Chinese photographer Lu Guang has won the 2009 W. Eugene Smith Award for his pictures of pollution in China. You can see an extensive set of photos here. If you have not seen Eugene Smith's photographs of Minimata, you should take a look. They...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
Much has been written in recent months about China's coming green-tech revolution, leading some to ask whether this is a genuine phenomenon or not (see also here). I decided to see for myself and, this past weekend, took one small...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
As we mentioned a few days ago, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) posted an article on the Ministry website making a strong case for more open information as the way to attack pollution before it leads to accidents like those we...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution
Let's say information about factory emissions of toxic metals was readily available to the public in Hunan and Shaanxi provinces. Would more than 1,600 children still have been poisoned by lead or cadmium recently? Or would local citizens instead have had the...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
In recent weeks, Chinese media has been awash in news about pollution accidents or other incidents around China. Here is an overview: Lead poisoning in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province: more than 600 children were found to have lead poisoning (see here and here also) [Update:...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
Last week, Henry Sanderson of Associated Press wrote a nice (and accurate) article about the first environmental lawsuit by an environmental group against the government to be accepted in China. But somewhere along the way a copy editor (or whoever is responsible...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
The First Annual Pollution Information Transparency Index In partnership with the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), we launched a Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI) last month on June 3rd. This is China's first index to evaluate environmental information...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
This year, the attention on China's environment has shifted largely to focus on how China is dealing with climate change. We cannot overstate just how important this has been. Just a few years ago, climate change was not a significant...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
Josh Bushinsky, who is with us at NRDC Beijing for a few months from the University of Chicago Law School, attended the talk by Secretary Chu at Tsinghua University in Beijing last week. We post his summary of the meeting...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
Last week, the China Daily led an article on climate change with this potential good news: China will put in place carbon dioxide emissions targets for its economic and social development programs, the central government has promised... It also signals that China...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
More than we think as it turns out. We noted last week that NRDC's naval sonar litigation in the US found its way into the "Annual Selected Readings for China's High School Students" and ultimately onto a final exam question...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
We have been devoting a great deal of space lately to discussion of open information and government transparency in China. As we know in the States, the right-to-know is something that you need to go to the mat for sometimes...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
The first anniversaries of the State Council Open Government Information Regulations (OGI Regulations) and the State Environmental Protection Administration Measures on Environmental Open Information were last week. We will be posting a Year in Review article by my colleague Joan...continued→
