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Mixed signals on prospects for settlement of China solar trade cases
Jonathan Moch Trade negotiations between the European Union and China regarding solar panels have hit a bump in the road, as the European trade commissioner complained about Chinese pressure on...
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New Issue Brief Explores China’s Motivation to Act on Clean Energy and...
ChinaFAQs In April, the United States and China announced a new joint partnership that recognized the danger of climate change and “inadequacy of the global response.” Next month, China is expected to...
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A Five-Part Strategy to Cap and Cut China's Coal Consumption
Barbara Finamore ChinaFAQs expert Barbara Finamore and her team at the Natural Resources Defense Council’s China Program have written a blog post entitled, “A Five-Part Strategy to Cap and Cut Coal...
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China Invests Billions in International Renewable Energy Projects
Yingzhen Zhao and Clifford Polycarp This post originally appeared on WRI Insights.It’s well-known that China ranks first in the world in attracting clean energy investment, receiving US$ 65.1 billion...
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4 Topics On Clean Energy And Climate Change Obama And Xi Should Consider
Manish Bapna This post originally appeared on Forbes.com.When President Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping meet in California this week, they will be seeking to build trust and chart a course for...
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United States and China Agree to Work Together on Phase Down of HFCs
ChinaFAQs The following is a press release from the White House:Today, President Obama and President Xi agreed on an important new step to confront global climate change. For the first time, the...
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China's 2012 Energy Report Card
Trevor Houser China’s 12th Five Year Plan includes an array of energy targets that it hopes to achieve by 2015. The targets, such as increasing the share of non-fossil energy to 11.4% of the total...
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China’s Shifting Stance on Hydrofluorocarbons
Melanie Hart This past weekend the White House announced the signing of a new agreement between the United States and China on hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are highly potent greenhouse gases...
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New ChinaFAQs Fact Sheet on Renewable Energy: A Graphical Overview of 2012
Jonathan Moch China is attempting to dramatically increase the country’s renewable energy supply by 2015. Recently released data shows that China made progress towards reaching this goal in 2012....
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Emissions Trading in China: First Steps and the Road Ahead
Ranping Song This week China launched its first pilot emission trading program. This development is potentially a major marker in China’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.The Shenzhen...
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Prologue to the 2013 U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue – ChinaFAQs...
Jonathan Moch ChinaFAQs climate and energy experts and top media representatives took part in a ChinaFAQs press call on July 8th to preview the July 10th and 11th U.S.-China Strategic and Economic...
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Reinvigorating the U.S.-China Climate Change Relationship
Deborah Seligsohn There is good news on international climate change cooperation.The United States and China are reaching out to work in new areas related to climate change while also strengthening...
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4 Promising Themes Emerge in U.S.-China Agreements at Strategic and Economic...
Jonathan Moch This has been a big week for U.S.-China collaboration on climate change. Yesterday the U.S.-China Climate Change Working Group (CCWG), which was established in April by the Joint...
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Bus Rapid Transit in China – On the Way
Heshuang Zeng This post originally appeared on TheCityFix.com.The rapid growth of bus rapid transit (BRT) in China is leading to future opportunities to improve the overall quality of sustainable...
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Majority of China’s Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plants Located in...
Tianyi Luo, Betsy Otto and Andrew Maddocks ChinaFAQs experts from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have projected that China’s coal use will peak in 2020 due to increasing energy efficiency...
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U.S. and China Moving Forward on Steps for HFC Phase Down
Jonathan Moch Building on the joint statement released by President Obama and President Xi in June, the two leaders have released another joint statement on the phase down of hydroflourocarbons...
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China's New Clean Air Action Plan
Jonathan Moch China has recently announced a plan to tackle air pollution across the country. The plan includes setting regional targets on coal use and taking high-polluting vehicles from the...
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Can China’s Action Plan to combat air pollution slow down new coal power...
Ailun Yang and Ryna Yiyun Cui Last month, China’s State Council announced a new action plan to combat air pollution, which included a prohibition of new coal-fired power plants in the three most...
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Recent Progress Shows China’s Leadership on Carbon Capture and Storage
Jonathan Moch and Sarah Forbes It is common knowledge that China burns a large amount of coal, with the fuel accounting for nearly 70% of China’s primary energy consumption in recent years. What is...
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China’s New Regional Air Quality Regulations: A Win-Win for local air quality...
Deborah Seligsohn When I went back to China this summer after my first year living outside of China in a decade I was not sure what I would find. The US press reporting on Chinese pollution had been...
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