Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
“China is emerging as the world’s clean energy powerhouse…there are reasons to be concerned about the U.S. competitive position in the clean energy marketplace”. Those are findings from a new report compiled using data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Both China and India have now reaffirmed that they will report their global warming emissions every 2 years. The framework of this was agreed in the Copenhagen Accord which outlined that every two years developing countries will report their national...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
As I mentioned here by the end of January countries were to register their actions to reduce global warming pollution as agreed under the Copenhagen Accord. And by deadline countries accounting for over 80% of the world’s global warming pollution...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
In December 2009, more than 120 Heads of Government attended the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, the largest meeting of world leaders in history (the previous largest one was the funeral of the Pope according to Wikipedia). Many of the leaders...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
"If only developing countries would take action to reduce their global warming pollution". That is the refrain that was heard in capitals around the world for years. This was driven partly by a concern over competitiveness in some places (e.g., the...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
China and the U.S. just announced a Joint Statement (available here) and a package of agreed actions on clean energy. This meeting between these two countries that account for around 40% of the world's CO2 emissions from fossil fuels couldn't...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
President Obama is on a swing through Asia and is now in China for high-level meetings on a range of issues. At the top of his agenda with China is how these two key players can individually and jointly move...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
I just participated in a briefing that the International Energy Agency (IEA) provided to climate negotiators in Bangkok. It was an excerpt from their soon to be released World Energy Outlook which is the IEA's regular projection of global energy...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Climate week began with world leaders participating in a full day of discussions on global warming. Over 100 world leaders were in attendance -- the largest gathering of world leaders on global warming and the first in many respects. The...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
President Hu Jintao of China has just unveiled before the world a new set of actions that China will undertake to curb their global warming pollution. The remarks were made today as a part of the UN Secretary General's...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Today begins a week dubbed "climate week" because of all the high-level climate discussions that are occurring. And they just all happen to be occurring in the US at an important time for the US domestic debate to pass...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
News coming out of China provides some hints that they might adopt a domestic limit to reduce their global warming. As China Daily is reporting: " China will put in place carbon dioxide emissions targets for its economic and social...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Secretary Clinton announced in Beijing that the US and China have agreed in principle to undertake a periodic high-level strategic and economic dialogue. She and Treasury Secretary Geithner will undertake the dialogue with their Chinese counterparts. The dialogue will be...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
If you've picked up a paper, listened to a radio program, watched a TV program, or read a policy paper on global warming recently you would surely have heard that China and the US are the two biggest sources of...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Andy Revkin has a DotEarth post on: Can U.S., China Team Up on Climate, Energy? Well he didn't exactly ask it directly of me, but I'll take the liberty of responding. The answer is YES and also that THEY MUST....
