Monthly Archives: January 2011
Documentary on China’s environment nominated for an Oscar
Warriors of Qiugang, the excellent short documentary on China’s environment that I blogged about earlier this month, has been nominated for an Oscar. As I mentioned in my previous post, this film is required viewing if you want to understand at a visceral level how local citizens are fighting to save the environment in China. If you have not seen it yet, the 39-minute film is available in full at the Yale e360 site. Sam Geall at China Dialogue has a nice article about the film as well. Congratulations to Ruby Yang and Tom Lennon!
President Hu and President Obama in Washington: Advancing the clean energy partnership between the United States and China
President Hu Jintao concluded his visit to the United States Friday, after meeting with President Obama and other top government and business leaders in Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Among the many issues on the agenda for these two leaders, strengthening cooperation on climate change and clean energy is an area where real progress is being made. As NRDC, Brookings and the Asia Society argued in 2009, both the United States and China are indispensible in the effort to address climate change given their positions as the two largest greenhouse gas emitting countries, their common interests in improving their energy security, … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Energizing efficiency in the U.S.-China relationship
Yesterday, before Chinese President Hu Jintao’s plane even hit the tarmac, senior energy experts from both countries gathered to inaugurate the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC), the latest in a series of initiatives building on the historic November 2009 summit between Presidents Hu and Obama. NRDC is a proud member of the building energy efficiency consortium. Together with the national demand-side management (DSM) regulations that came into effect on January 1st, these programs in energy efficiency hold some of the greatest promise for reducing the burden on China’s growing energy demand while promoting goodwill and broad cooperation in the … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
China’s announcements on energy and climate in advance of Presidential summit
Today, Chinese President Hu Jintao will be arriving in Washington, D.C., for a three-day U.S. visit. This is the second state-level visit between him and President Obama, including Obama’s visit to Beijing in November 2009, which set forth an ambitious energy and climate cooperation agenda between the two countries. These cooperative initiatives have steadily moved forward in the past year, including finalization of the funding, research consortia members and work plans for the three US-China Clean Energy Research Centers on building efficiency, carbon capture and storage, and electric vehicles; continued meetings on improving cooperation on efficiency and renewables; and the … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
The Warriors of Qiugang – A New Documentary on the Struggle to Save China’s Environment
A great deal has been written about the struggles to resolve China’s overwhelming environmental problems, but I have seen no better or more visceral portrayal of these issues than The Warriors of Qiugang, a short documentary film by Academy Award-winners Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon that is being broadcast in full at the Yale e360 website beginning today. The film, shot over four years mostly in a village near the Huai River in eastern Anhui Province, captures a series of indelible scenes of the efforts of one village to stop pollution from local chemical factories that blackened rivers, killed fish, … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
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