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Nine Ministries Put Forth Dioxin Control Timetable, and Other China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate Change News
Nine ministries put forward dioxin control timetable, pilot reduction to be performed in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Google translate)
China will begin total emission control for dioxin in several pilot locations, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Dealty, and other key regions.
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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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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 In August, China released a list of over 2,000 factories with outdated equipment that had to be shut … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Five Major Power Groups to Develop Mercury Elimination Pilots and Other Recent China Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Climate News
Five Major Power Groups to Develop Mercury Elimination Pilots (Google Translate)
MEP vice minister Zhang Lijun presided over a symposium in Beijing to discuss the development of mercury elimination pilots in coal-fired power plants. The power sector is required to pay high attention to controlling mercury emissions, and pilot mercury emissions control projects were planned for coal-fired power plants. (Source: China Environment News)
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The American Power Act: “First Read” of the Kerry-Lieberman Climate and Energy Legislation
Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) unveiled today the long-awaited draft of their American Power Act. The launch of their bill kicks off an intensive effort to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation in the Senate this summer, reconcile it with the bill passed by the House, and put a final bill on the president’s desk to sign into law this year.
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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)
Recent Climate Change News in the Chinese Media
Low-carbon economy “ripens” new energy industry (Google translation)
Building upon three years of policies and laws promoting the development and expansion of renewable energy programs, wind power has finally entered a commercial operation stage, according to He Dexin, president of the Chinese Wind Energy Association. While wind power clearly stands out as China’s most mature new energy industry, the industry continues to suffer from lack of highly trained human resources; Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(1)
Recent Climate Change News in the Chinese Media
Search for climate change future funding (Google translation)
After the first UN climate change negotiations in Bonn, Germany, last week, it remains evident that financing climate aid continues to be the most difficult question. China’s chief climate change negotiator, Su Wei, stated that the promised annual 10 billion USD in funding to developed countries from wealthy nations for the next three years, as written in the Copenhagen Accord, is really just a “drop in the bucket,” especially in light of the 200 years of uncontrolled emissions from developed nations—but, he added, it is still better than nothing. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Recent Climate Change News in the Chinese Media
Chinese official calls upon Asian countries to strengthen cooperation, address climate change (Google translation)
At the 2010 Asia News Coalition forum last week, director of the China Meteorological Administration, Zheng Guoguang, emphasized common needs and concerns of Asian countries in addressing climate change, and the importance to strengthen future collaboration among nations. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Recent Climate Change News in the Chinese Media
Ministry of Finance shows strong support for new energy (Google translation)
At the National People’s Congress meetings last week, the Ministry of Finance announced that it spent 102 billion RMB to push forward “new energy” from 2007 to 2009, and tens of billions of RMB have been spent to promote research and development of nuclear and biomass technology. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
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