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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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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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)
Major Clothing Retailers Join NRDC in Cleaning Up Chinese Textile Mills
Walmart, H&M Launch Efforts to Implement NRDC’s ‘Clean by Design’ Pollution-Reducing Practices at Select Mills
NEW YORK (September 22, 2010)— Working with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Walmart and H&M, two of the world’s largest clothing retailers, have committed to working with their Chinese textile suppliers to reduce water, energy, and chemical use in their supply chains. Walmart announced its work with NRDC’s Clean by Design project at the Clinton Global Initiative today, helping strategically selected mills adopt Clean by Design practices. H&M initiated a similar agreement with NRDC in mid-September.
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Chinese and U.S. Experts Work Together to Draw a Low-Carbon Development Blueprint
A promising low-carbon demonstration project will begin at the Suzhou Industrial Park Eco Science Hub in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Suzhou, China－Sep. 10, 2010- The Suzhou Industrial Park Administrative Committee (SIPAC), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Nanjing University (NJU) have signed a three-party agreement to launch the Suzhou Industrial Park Eco Science Hub Low-Carbon Development Project. This is China’s first systematic low-carbon zone demonstration project with a focus on low-carbon community, green buildings and greenhouse gas accounting system.
Women’s Wear Daily: NRDC Expands Environmental Factory Program
The textile industry shares the mantle of being the worst water polluter in China with the chemical industry, according to the NRDC, while the steel, cement and petroleum sectors have a bigger impact on the environment through air pollution.
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Women’s Wear Daily: NRDC Tackles China’s Textile Pollution
Posted below is an article about NRDC’s Responsible Sourcing Initiatives (RSI) which was first published in Women’s Wear Daily on June 29, 2010, written by Ross Tucker. The Natural Resources Defense Council believes the apparel industry’s efforts to lower its environmental impact will require brands and retailers to look further down their supply chains to become more familiar with, and ultimately take more responsibility for, their suppliers at the fabric level. The NRDC’s interest in the textile sector came about in 2007 after it opened an office in Beijing tasked with tackling pollution issues in the country. Linda Greer, director … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Recent Climate Change News in the Chinese Media
China proposes carbon tax after 2012 (Google translation) China is considering the creation of a climate tax as early as 2012, according to a recent study completed the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance. The tax would be devised by changing the current resource tax of 2% into a carbon tax to be levied on enterprises; the tax would charge 10 RMB per ton of carbon dioxide starting in 2012 and will then be increased to 40 RMB by 2020. Though much still needs to be completed before implementation, receiving the … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(1)
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