There was a time where China could legitimately stand up and say that they were “cleaner” than everyone else, and use a per capita statistic to back that information up. Over the years though, it has grown tougher because the audience (1) began adjusting for the fact that China had hundreds of millions of farmers [...]

1) Chengdu eventually achieved 315 days of fine air quality in 2009 On December 16th, 2009, the number of days with fair air quality in the downtown Chengdu achieved 15 days earlier the livelihood project goal put forward by the Municipal Government at the beginning of last year to “reach 311 days of fine air [...]

Typically I would not report the work of someone else in full, but in this case I think an exception should be made: Prime Minister Rasmussen, Dear Colleagues, At this very moment, billions of people across the world are following closely what is happening here in Copenhagen. The will that we express and the commitments [...]

With less than a month to go to COP 15, Alex Pasternack at Treehugger has loaded a very interesting dialogue he recently had with Yang Fuqiang of WWF. See Part 1 and Part 2 Perhaps one of the most experienced persons on the issues, in China, his background lends his thoughts significant weight: For more [...]

In his report Can China’s coal industry be reconciled with the environment? (PDF Download Available Here), Xunpeng Shi takes a closer look at how energy intensity is measure, the level of emissions in China, and what that means. To draw conclusions, he leverages two models: 1) is a fixed effects panel (WGE denotes pollutant emissions) [...]

Given China’s building boom, and China’s reliance on bricks and concrete to build walls and foundations, the applications for this product could be huge if the product was proven and brought into China. A product of Carbon Sense Solutions, it CO2 eating concrete process is one that is still under review (according to their website), [...]