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What can we do to nudge China towards renewables?

What can an American consumer do to encourage the development of wind and solar in China, and discourage coal?

What are the organizations doing good work on this that we could donate to, or good projects that American consumers could support (possibly as offsets)?

I'm one US enviro who knows that China and India's coal power plants are a huge threat to the climate, but am not clear what I personally could do about it.
On China's coal policy is breathtaking (literally) posted 2 years ago 3 Responses

One more: building infrastructure

Co-op America also takes the "no trees" approach to offsets (http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/carbon ...),
for these reasons and one other:
Building new wind power capacity builds infrastructure that will make a low-carbon future possible. This is a side-benefit of the CO2 reduction purchased as an offset. It's important to stop deforestation, but planting trees doesn't build the infrastructure that will make it possible for our society to live in a way that curbs the climate crisis.On Trees are good for a lot of things; carbon offsetting isn't one of them posted 2 years, 4 months ago 27 Responses

See hybrid bikes in Co-op America's Real Money:

"The Case for Electric Bicycles" is a friendly and comprehensive introduction to the world of human-electric hybrid cycles:
www.coopamerica.org/go/ebikesOn Dumb and not so dumb questions answered posted 2 years, 5 months ago 51 Responses

Yes, but ...

Agreed that thumbs-up for first steps, and the message that climate action is doable, will both be the most effective marketing message from climate activists.

But why declare premature defeat in the goal of changing American consumers' behavior?  Fur used to be in; now it's out. Drunk driving is decidedly uncool, but it wasn't always. A growing proportion of individual American consumers choosing organic food are responsible for the current boom. Public education campaigns have changed American culture before, and can again -- let's not give up on the possibility that at least some Americans can be enticed to evaluate and change their unsustainable lifestyles.On Why are environmental activists so clueless at marketing climate change solutions? posted 2 years, 8 months ago 36 Responses