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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)
Recent Climate Change News in the Chinese Media
Zhang Shan: economic significance of climate negotiations has already surpassed World Trade negotiations (Google translation)
On January 31, the UNFCCC requested national governments announce whether or not they will associate with the Copenhagen Accord. Zhang Shan, an NGO observer to the COP15 talks in December of last year, offers a detailed analysis regarding the Copenhagen Accord in this opinion piece. Zhang asserts that signing the Accord will force the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) countries to accept unilateral concessions from developed countries; will perpetuate global criticism of China in the media; Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
China and Copenhagen: Resolutions for 2010
We’ve posted a blog discussing our view on China and the Copenhagen Accord. Here’s a small excerpt. Click on the link to NRDC’s Switchboard blog for the entire post.
The proof of how constructive each of the countries has been will be in whether we have an effective, binding climate agreement before 2010 is through… The hard work has really just begun and every country will have the opportunity in the coming year to rise to the occasion. So we should put aside the recriminations and get on to the business of forging a new climate agreement in 2010.
Recent Climate Change News in the Chinese Media
Renewable Energy Law Revision Passed, new energy industry will be shuffled (Google translation)
The National People’s Congress Standing Committee approved an amendment to the national Renewable Energy Law to be implemented by April of this year. The revision will bring about two major changes in the new energy industry: first, all energy produced from renewable or new energy sources will be permitted to be sold, under the condition that the industry meets national standards regarding energy stability and safety standards; industries that do not meet these standards will continue to be held accountable to a minimum energy production requirement before energy can be sold. Secondly, the revision establishes a state financed renewable energy development fund to compensate for the cost difference between conventional energy sources and renewable power. Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Copenhagen in Pictures – Time to Step Up to an Agreement (Updated)
[Update (Beijing 1/10/2010): The rest of the Copenhagen meeting is history now. It was an exhausting two weeks that did not do as much as we'd hoped, but pushed forward in a number of important ways. We have posted our take on China and the Copenhagen Accord here. Our staff's complete series of blogs on the Copenhagen meeting can be found here. Onward to a final agreement in 2010!] [Update (3:25pm local time): Wen and Obama both spoke this morning and we are clearly not yet at an agreement. Wen’s talk contained important language about transparency, international dialogue and cooperative … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Copenhagen Media Report – Day 9
Today, access to Bella Center is even stricter. Heads of states are arriving starting from today, including Gordon Brown. Right now, some of our luckier NRDC colleagues are inside the Bella Center attending conferences, while the others are standing in a desperately long queue, blogging with freezing fingers. Highlights of yesterday： Africa staged a virtual walkout, putting things on hold for about 6 hours and forcing the negotiations to regroup and restructure. Fortunately, COP President Connie Hedegaard was able to broker an end to the walkout, and negotiations resumed at 8pm. A few new texts came out last night focusing … Continue reading 阅读全文 Add comment 发表评论(0)
Copenhagen in Pictures – One Week Down, an Agreement to Go
Here are some photos from the first week in Copenhagen. Enjoy!
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC
From Gray to Green: GHG Emissions Reduction Potential in China’s Building Sector
After more than 16-hours of air travel I finally landed at midnight in Hopenhagen, the new eponym given to Copenhagen, where UN Climate Change Conference/COP 15 is now underway; some two hundred national leaders have gathered in the hope of reaching an agreement on climate change. Unfortunately my suitcase didn’t arrive with me and I was concerned about showing up to NRDC’s side event in my red sweater. Luckily, the airline delivered my suitcase to the hotel three hours before our side event. I showed up ready to speak to a large and rapt audience crammed tightly into a room at the Bella Center, where the COP 15 Climate Conference has been taking place since yesterday to the end of next week.
Engaging the Business World: Side Events by Indian and Chinese Institutions
In Copenhagen this week and next, hundreds of side events – if not thousands – are taking place. Some of them are “official” COP15 side events meaning they are registered and provided with conference rooms, such as our NRDC’s held yesterday (scroll down to the 4th meeting entitled China and the World: Solving Climate Change Through Practical, On-the-Ground Collaboration); and many others are organized outside the main conference facility. Still some are presented outdoor in more eye-catching forms, e.g. dancing and chanting.
I went to two interesting side events this week that were not held in the Bella Center where the COP15 is taking place.
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Meeting China’s Climate Targets
The level of interest in what China will do in these Copenhagen negotiations is intense. On Tuesday afternoon we went to the first public Chinese press event of the negotiations at the China delegation office. We arrived to find people overflowing out of the door. Three times as many people as could fit in the briefing room had arrived.
Afterwards, we went straight from the press event to our NRDC-organized side event on “China and the World: Solving climate change through practical, on-the-ground collaboration.” Standing room only again (see here for an overview of the event).
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