Monthly Archives: October 2010
Zhejiang Explores Establishing an EPIL System and Other Recent China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate Change News
Zhejiang explores establishing an environment public interest litigation system (Google translate)
Zhejiang province people’s procuratorate and the provincial environmental protection department recently issued “Opinions on Actively Making Use of Civil and Administrative Procuratorial Functions to Strengthen Environmental Protection,” which require procuratorates and environmental protection bureaus of varying levels within the province to use judicial tools to advance environmental enforcement and management. This includes exploring the establishment of a public interest litigation system. (Source: China Chemical Industry News)
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What to make of China’s efforts to meet its energy intensity targets
Adam Moser at Vermont Law School’s China Environmental Governance blog drew a contrast between a blog post of mine discussing China’s efforts to meet its energy targets, and a post by Michael Levi at the Council on Foreign Relations positing the view that China’s energy statistics “have become pretty meaningless.” Mr. Moser frames our posts as being on opposite sides of the argument (“circus or savior”), but it is perhaps more accurate to say that we are looking at different aspects of the same picture.
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12th FYP Energy Saving Target to be Released Soon and Other Recent China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate Change News
12th FYP energy saving target to be released soon, reduction in energy intensity per unit GDP will not exceed 20% (Google translate)
At a recent conference about technology exchange and investment in the petrol and chemical industry, Dai Yande, Vice Director of Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said that the 12th five-year plan energy saving target would be released in the next one to two months, and further that the target for energy intensity reduction per unit GDP would be in the range of 15-20%. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
China Looks to the U.S. to Learn From the Clean Air Act, Even as Some in the U.S. Seek to Dismantle It.
It is remarkable that the U.S. Clean Air Act is under attack these days. Have we come to take the blue skies in the U.S. so for granted that magazines are running columns with titles like “Clean Air Act: Defend or Dismantle?” I have worked for NRDC in Beijing for the last five years, and no one in this great city takes a blue sky day for granted. They are too precious and rare a commodity. Let us not forget, as Peter Lehner recently pointed out, that the Clean Air Act is what prevents the air in the U.S. from … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
A Force for Nature: My Journeys with John Adams and NRDC
I am in Tianjin, China with NRDC’s delegation at the latest round of climate change negotiations. After a long day at a cavernous conference center, the conversation at dinner turned to the new book A Force for Nature. There was a lot of interest in this history of NRDC written by our founding director John Adams and his wife Patricia.
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Slow Progress for Climate Talks
By He Ying
China Energy News
Published at China Energy News Oct.18, 2010, Page 9 http://paper.people.com.cn/zgnyb/html/2010-10/18/content_646742.htm
There has been a couple of working group meetings of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since the Copenhagen conference last year. Have global climate talks made any progress during the past year? The international community surely has certain expectations for the Tianjin meeting, which is the last meeting before the next Conference of Parties （COP）in Cancun. What are the results of this meeting? How should we address the climate change?
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Central Government Has Invested Over 200 Billion in Energy Conservation and Other Recent China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate News
Central Government Has Invested Over 200 Billion RMB in Energy Consumption and Environmental Protection During 11th FYP Period (Google Translate)
Earlier this week Xie Zhenhua, Vice Minister of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), stated that the central government has invested over 200 billion RMB on energy efficiency and environmental protection during the 11th five-year plan period. This amount accounts for only 10%-15% of total investment in this area across the nation. (Source: CHINANEWS)
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Announcing the Release of the Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI) in English
We are pleased to release the English version of our 2008-09 Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI), a collaboration between the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). As you may recall, PITI is an evaluation and ranking of environmental transparency in 113 Chinese cities. We released these results (in Chinese) last summer and the response has been very positive.
At the end of last year, we learned that China Economic Times, an influential national Chinese newspaper, selected PITI as one of the top ten environmental events of 2009, saying:
[PITI] can be called a model of non-governmental organizations playing their role of supervising government. Here, NGOs have not simply relied on passion and a spirit of protecting environmental interests, but have drawn from the power of expertise, and used legal channels and dialogue with the government. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
China: Racing Toward the Finish Line on its Energy and Environmental Targets
I am in Tianjin this week for the climate talks, and the mood, compared to Copenhagen, has been subdued. In contrast, all around China government officials and factory owners are working themselves into a frenzy to meet their share of China’s 20 percent energy intensity reduction target. The headlines have been stunning. Across the country, a massive effort has been mobilized to eliminate backwards production capacity, control growth in energy intensive industries (like steel and cement), and a variety of other efforts. In August, China released a list of over 2,000 factories with outdated equipment that had to be shut … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
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