Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
As I’ve blogged about before, one of the keys to fighting China’s pollution problem is strengthening China’s environmental governance system. This is a view not just held by environmentalists, but one that is also held by a growing number of...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
This blog was co-authored with Barbara Finamore and Alvin Lin. The thrust and parry of the post-Copenhagen blame game reached a fever pitch just before the holidays with a number of media articles suggesting that China was responsible for an...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
[Update (3:25pm local time): Wen and Obama both spoke this morning and we are clearly not yet at an agreement. Wen's talk contained important language about transparency, international dialogue and cooperative exchange. Obama emphasized that "We are ready to get this...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
One week down, an agreement to go. The first week at Copenhagen was intense in and out of the Bella Center. Inside, thousands of government bureaucrats and staffers mixed with thousands of environmental advocates, researchers, students, journalists, bloggers and a...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Here are some photos from the first week in Copenhagen. Enjoy! Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC Rajendra Pauchari, Chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change China press event with Su Wei, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Todd Stern press...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
The level of interest in what China will do in these Copenhagen negotiations is intense. On Tuesday afternoon we went to the first public Chinese press event of the negotiations at the China delegation office. We arrived to find people...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
We are hosting an official COP15 side event tomorrow in Copenhagen. China and the U.S. are moving forward aggressively to combat climate change. More needs to be done for sure, but the foundation for the types of on-the-ground collaboration needed...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
We registered at the Bella Center yesterday morning and witnessed the calm before the storm. The momentum is palpable as an estimated 25,000 begin to check-in to decide how the world tackles the greatest environmental challenge of our time. Jake...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
The video of our recent Monday morning panel at the Asia Society in NY is available online. Professor Jerome Cohen presided over the event. NRDC China Program Director Barbara Finamore discussed China's progress on climate and the opportunities for international collaboration. Orville Schell talked about the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
