Monthly Archives: November 2009
China’s Carbon Intensity Target
The following is a post from my colleague and NRDC China Program Director, Barbara Finamore. We also include links to several posts on the topic from other commentators. -eds
China yesterday announced that Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the Copenhagen climate summit and that he will bring with him a target for China of reducing carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. Coming a day after the announcement across the Pacific that President Obama will attend the beginning of the summit, bringing a commitment to reduce U.S. emissions “in the range of 17%” from 2005 levels by 2020, this means that we now know what the world’s two largest emitters will be bringing to the table when the world’s countries gather in Copenhagen.
Chinese Premier to Attend Copenhagen Talks and China Announces Carbon Intensity Target
The announcements are coming fast and furious now as we approach Copenhagen. China announced that Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the Copenhagen climate summit and will set a carbon intensity reduction target of 40 to 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. This is good news, as was President Obama’s announcement earlier in the week. Both nations can and should do more, though these are very positive opening bids.
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Recent Climate Change News in the Chinese Media
Chinese scholars sign “Copenhagen Climate Summit Proposal” (Google translation)
24 Chinese scholars and activists from research institutes and NGOs throughout China wrote and signed a “Copenhagen Climate Summit Proposal” this week, making clear China’s negotiation stance, hopes and expectations for the COP 15 talks in two weeks. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
President Obama to Attend International Climate Conference in Copenhagen
We have put out the following release in response to President Obama’s announcement that he would attend the Copenhagen climate talks. This is good news. The White House also announced that a number of senior Cabinet and Administration officials, including Steven Chu, Lisa Jackson, Ken Salazar, Gary Locke, Tom Vilsack, Carol Browner and Nancy Sutley, will attend.
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NRDC Fact Sheet: Cutting Through the Fog with China’s First Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI)
We have a new fact sheet out on transparency and climate change in China. You can download it here from the NRDC website.
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Developing a coordinated international effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions requires, among other things, that countries have confidence in each others’ capacity to monitor and mitigate their GHG emissions. Reliable emissions data in turn relies on the existence of governance systems that make energy and environmental information transparent and publicly available. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Recent Environmental Law and Public Participation News
Yangtze River Delta unveils new information disclosure evaluation system (Google translation)
Last week, environmental officials from Shanghai municipality, Zhejiang Province, and Jiangsu Province revealed a new environmental information disclosure evaluation system that would hold enterprises accountable for their transparency requirements. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Draft Tort Law now available for public comment
The 11th meeting of the 11th National People’s Congress Standing Committee has finished the third review of the draft Tort Law. The full text of the draft law has been put on the official website of NPC for public comment. Members of the public are welcome to submit their comments by logging on to www.npc.gov.cn or by sending the comments in hardcopy to the following address:
Law Office of National People’s Congress Standing Committee, No. 23 Xijiao minxiang, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100805.
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Recent Environmental Law and Public Participation News
Kunming government creates an 800 thousand prize for reducing pollution incidents, still to be claimed (Google translation)
The city of Kunming in Yunnan province is working toward increasing avenues for public participation in environmental pollution incidents, including a hotline for reporting water pollution grievances. The city government has created an 800 thousand yuan prize to reward efforts to control pollution and provide comprehensive treatment to victims, improve transparency and access to information of pollution incidents; the prize has yet to be claimed. (Source: Yunnan Daily)
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Obama in China: What Should be Done to Build Confidence on US-China Climate Action
This post first appeared at switchboard.nrdc.org on Monday. [Update: Today, the US and China indeed announced a series of clean energy cooperative agreements in the areas of energy efficiency, coal, renewables, electric vehicles, among other things. See here for details and PDF fact sheets. See here for a summary.] (Official White House photo by Pete Souza) 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 extra time beyond Copenhagen. To … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(1)
Recent Climate Change News in the Chinese Media
Optimism for China’s new energy industry (Google translation) As China begins to form more partnerships with the US on energy efficiency and green technology, scholars and experts are optimistic about China’s potential to contribute to the global and domestic new energy industry. Analysts predict that a series of domestic policies will be released in the upcoming years in China, in particular focusing on revitalizing China’s renewable energy program and developing smart grid technology. (Source: China Securities Journal) Climate warming will significantly reduce production of wheat and maize (Google translation) WWF recently released a report on the “Vulnerability and Adaption to … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
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