Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
As Hillary Clinton prepared to visit China for high-level discussions on climate change and energy last week, we landed in California with a group of Chinese experts from government, academia, legal circles and media to talk about approaches to battling...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
See our bilingual (English and Chinese) blog dedicated to discussion of China's environmental law, policy and public participation at http://www.greenlaw.org.cn/enblog. Last week was Spring Festival in China. Despite the economic downturn, well-reported recent drops in energy use (see here and...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
My first post to this blog a little over a year ago was about whether Beijing would clear the air for the Olympics. The media frenzy over this topic began in earnest back then in August 2007 at the one...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
Pollution is causing rainfall to decrease in certain parts of China. A little noticed study published in Science earlier this year, somewhat opaquely entitled “Inverse Relations between Amounts of Air Pollution and Orographic Precipitation,” found that average precipitation in a...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China , Living Sustainably
It’s no secret that the products that fuel our daily consumer lives in the U.S. are now overwhelmingly produced in China. Try living a year without buying anything “Made in China” and see how you like it (one woman seems...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
The hot topic in Beijing this week is whether the murky haze of smog that usually covers the city will be lifted when the world's athletes begin to descend on Beijing in August 2008. This summer certainly hasn't been pretty...continued→
