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Obama in China: What Should be Done to Build Confidence on US-China Climate Action

November 16, 2009

Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
china, climatechange, climatenegotiations, obama

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

Environmental Transparency in China: the First Annual Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI) and Implications for Climate Change

July 30, 2009

Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China

Tags:
climatechange, openinformation

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

Secretary Chu speaks at Tsinghua: long on technological solutions, short on policy

July 23, 2009

Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China

Tags:
china, chu, climatechange

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

Will China Put Carbon Dioxide Levels in Its 12th Five-Year National Development Plan?

June 10, 2009

Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China

Tags:
china, climatechange

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

China-US Collaboration - Environmental Enforcement Ideas from Sunny California

February 23, 2009

Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China

Tags:
airpollution, centrallocalrelations, china, citizensuits, climatechange, environmentalgovernance, hillaryclinton, hujintao, law

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

The Bali Conference - a view from the floor

December 7, 2007

Posted by Alex Wang in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bali, climatechange, climatenegotiations, globalwarmingdeniers, globalwarmingsolutions, UNFCCC

Today was my first day at the “united nations climate change conference” in Nusa Dua, Bali.  In the U.S., we still have to deal with Fox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and a NASA head who claims...continued

Alex Wang
Alex Wang
Senior Attorney; Director, China Environmental Law Project
Beijing, China
I am based in NRDC's Beijing office, working with China's policy-makers, fledgling environmental groups, and...
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