Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Greening China , Solving Global Warming
There has been a lot of talk these days about the prospect of China outpacing America in the clean energy race. From a recent Los Angeles Times article reporting that China surpassed the United States in private clean-energy investment last year...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Earlier this week, NRDC's China program director Barbara Finamore was at China's official state guesthouse--the same spot President Nixon stayed when he opened U.S.-China relations in 1972--when U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the United States and China...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
As President Obama heads to China, it is important to recognize just how much has changed in the past year. For the first time ever, an American president is traveling to Beijing with the issue of climate change at the...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
This week, as people from all over the world assemble at the United Nations for Climate Week, I am reminded of another international gathering spot I went to just 10 days ago--Beijing's Olympic Village. What do these two places have...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Climate Week has begun, and as foreign dignitaries descend on the United Nations and the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, I think most of the world's nations will be singing a shared refrain: it is time for the United States...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Greening China
I was in Beijing last week for a series of meetings with our China team. Fifteen years ago, NRDC was the first international environmental NGO to establish a program on clean energy issues in China. Today, we have an office...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday marked the long-awaited release of the Waxman-Markey "discussion draft" of a clean energy and climate bill. I welcomed this development. After all, I have worked for more than a decade to prepare for the moment we find ourselves in:...
