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China's immoral energy policy: Part II The efficient alternative to coal power in China	Joseph Romm	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
China's rapacious coal plant building is neither moral nor sustainable, as discussed in Part I. Yet many supply-side alternatives, like nuclear and hydro, are problematic for the country. What should China do to satisfy its insatiable thirst for energy? Go back to their amazing energy efficiency policies of the 1980s and early 1990s. China's energy history can be divided into several phases, as we learn from Dr. Mark Levine, cofounder of the Beijing Energy Effici ...
Topics: energy efficiency, politics, energy, China (all these topics)

China's immoral energy policy: Part I China's coal policy is breathtaking (literally)	Joseph Romm	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Yes, America's climate policy is immoral. But that doesn't make China's rapacious coal-plant building moral. The N.Y. Times has published the sobering numbers, which bear repeating: The country built 114,000 megawatts of fossil-fuel-based generating capacity last year alone, almost all coal-fired, and is on course to complete 95,000 megawatts more this year. For comparison, Britain has 75,000 megawatts in operation, built over a span of decades. China is now t ...
Topics: renewable energy, nuclear power, coal, politics, energy, China (all these topics)

The other black gold U.S. investors make a killing off of Chinese coal	Tom Philpott	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
China's vast coal industry: Where would we be without it? Cheap Chinese coal keeps consumer-goods prices low, allowing us to consume like mad even as crude-oil prices skyrocket. It's also returning handsome profits to U.S. investors. Take it away, Associated Press: As China's appetite for coal is booming, American investors and businesses are cashing in. American pension and mutual fund money is being invested in the Chinese coal industry, which is lucrative but i ...
Topics: business, China, coal, energy (all these topics)

On climate, Hu's leading whom? Snappy comebacks for the climate do-nothing set who's using China as an excuse	Anna Fahey	28 Oct 2007	Gristmill
On a hot day this summer, Chinese President Hu Jintao and a group of state leaders appeared at a public function wearing short-sleeved shirts, rather than their normal business suits. According to the state press, the casual attire wasn't just a new fashion statement: China's top brass were leading by example, encouraging Chinese workers to dress in light clothing in order to reduce the use of air conditioners in office buildings. Fashions do change. Outright denial of ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

An artifact of prior decisions otherwise concealed, part deux Why coal is cheaper in China	David Roberts	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Alternatives to coal are at a severe disadvantage in China: These are the realities faced by companies seeking to make themselves more environmentally friendly in China, where coal is king. Coal-fired plants are quick and cheap to build and easy to run. While the Chinese government has set goals for increasing the use of a long list of alternative energies -- including wind, biomass, hydroelectric, solar and nuclear they all face obstacles, from bureaucracy to ...
Topics: China, coal, energy, wind power (all these topics)

Slow down China has not officially endorsed a carbon price	David Roberts	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
As I mentioned yesterday, a new report from the InterAcademy Council advocates for a price on carbon (among many other things). I started reading it last night, and it's fantastic -- more on it later. The report was commissioned by China and Brazil. The foreword is by Lu Yongxiang, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Somehow, our own Charles Komanoff extracts from this slender evidence that "China has put its weight behind a carbon tax -- or a carb ...
Topics: China, carbon tax, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Look, Hu's Talking Chinese prez Hu Jintao promises eco-reforms in big speech		16 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:17 AM on 16 Oct 2007 Chinese President Hu Jintao, in a speech to the country's Communist Party Congress yesterday, promised environmental as well as economic reforms in the next five years. Shying away from specifics in his 2.5-hour speech, Hu said that China's "ecological and environmental quality will improve notably." He acknowledged that "[China's] economic growth is realized at an excess ...
Topics: China, news, politics (all these topics)

Move, Ditch! Get Out the Way China will relocate millions more people for Three Gorges Dam project		15 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:04 PM on 15 Oct 2007 China may force another 2 million to 4 million people out of their homes over the next 10 to 15 years to make room for the reservoir building up behind the Three Gorges Dam -- and that's in addition to the 1.4 million citizens who have already been relocated. The "world's biggest hydropower project" is quickly becoming a big pain in the neck, and not just ...
Topics: China, dams, hydropower, news (all these topics)

The elephant in the environmental room How do you solve a problem like <del	David Roberts	04 Oct 2007	Gristmill
It occurs to me that my response to Shellenberger & Nordhaus failed to address what they call the "elephant in the environmental room": China. They say that environmentalists ignore the subject and corporatists obsess over it for the same reason -- it illustrates the futility of domestic carbon regulations (in isolation). China, they say, is not going to impose regulatory restrictions that will slow its economic growth. It will not shift from coal to cl ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Have You Herd? China relocates Tibetan herders in interest of environment		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:48 PM on 03 Oct 2007 Ugh: China is ordering 100,000 ethnic Tibetans to give up their traditional nomadic habits and settle in towns because their way of life is threatening the environment, state press reported Tuesday. Glaciers in the province where the herders live are an initial source for both the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers; somehow we imagine that the impact on the rivers from overgrazing and erosion pales ...
Topics: China, insanity, news, Tibet, water pollution (all these topics)

Incandescent Descent China joins campaign to phase out incandescent bulbs		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:36 PM on 03 Oct 2007 China makes 70 percent of the world's light bulbs, and has just agreed to participate in a campaign to globally phase out inefficient bulbs over the next decade. But you didn't hear it from us: China's participation in the incandescent-hatin' campaign, which is being spearheaded by green funder Global Environment Facility, will be formally announced at the United Nations climate meeting in ...
Topics: China, energy, energy at home, green living, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Yang Jiechi on China's response to global warming Bush-like doubletalk from Chinese foreign minister	Joseph Romm	01 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The Foreign Minister of China, Yang Jiechi, gave a talk at CGI that would have made President Bush -- or Frank Luntz -- proud. Brian may have liked the rhetoric, but I (and a number of others I spoke to in NY) thought the comments were divorced from reality, pure spin. You can judge for yourself from the entire transcript, which I will excerpt and comment on here because I think the speech is much more important and ominous than Bush's recent climate speech. After al ...
Topics: China, climate, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: The view from China China's foreign minister talks climate and development	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi focused on climate change during his moment in the CGI spotlight yesterday: For developing countries like China, whose level of economic development is still low and whose people are yet to live a better life, the most depressing issue for them is to grow the economy and raise people's living standards. Efforts to tackle climate change should promote economic development and not be pursued at the expense of the economic dev ...
Topics: China, climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton on efficiency Bill Clinton calls for countries to follow Japan's lead	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton introduced the morning plenary today by, once again, honoring the companies and people who've committed to the Clinton Global Initiative to take steps to increase energy efficiency and decrease greenhouse-gas emissions. But he touted one dubious statistic: If China, India, and the United States were to become as efficient as Japan, that would decrease global greenhouse-gas output by 20 percent. That statistic is based on this study by the McKinsey Inst ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, China, climate, India, international politics, Japan, politics, United States (all these topics)

Tom Friedman is back -- and he's pessimistic Urban growth rates in Qatar and China leave Friedman skeptical about climate change mitigation	Joseph Romm	20 Sep 2007	Gristmill
First the good news from The New York Times: We have ended TimesSelect. All of our Op-Ed and news columns are now available free of charge. Additionally, The New York Times Archive is available free back to 1987. Good for them. Interestingly, even though I had paid my money to get TimesSelect, I pretty much stopped reading the stuff behind the barrier because I couldn't connect readers (i.e., you) to the material. The NYT had basically taken some of their best ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, Qatar (all these topics)

Smithfield hogs the China market Looking at an industrial-meat giant's China deal	Tom Philpott	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill
While PETA roils Gristmill and other greenie sites by brandishing climate change to promote vegetarianism, Smithfield Foods just keeps cranking out industrial meat. As I noted in last week's Victual Reality, the company recently announced a deal to sell 60 million pounds of pork to China. Since then, Smithfield has revealed details about how it will fill that order: by ramping up production at a slaughter facility in Sioux City, Iowa, hometown of one of the nation's ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, business, China, food (all these topics)

China to hold no-car day Residents in over 100 Chinese cities urged to walk, bike, or use public transit this Saturday	Adam Browning	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
China, once famed as a bicycling nation, tries to put the genie back in the bottle.
Topics: bikes, cars, China, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Oh, Brother China's one-child policy reduces population, helps climate		30 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 3:36 PM on 30 Aug 2007 Perhaps a wee bit sensitive about being vilified for its excessive impact on climate change, China has pointed out that its one-child policy, instituted in the late 1970s, has kept 300 million consumers off of the planet. From the Archives Agribusiness As Usual. Huge organic dairy farm skirted organic rules, agrees to behave. So Long, and Thanks for All the Yu. Maybe ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, news, population (all these topics)

So Long, and Thanks for All the Yu Maybe-extinct Chinese river dolphin maybe spotted		30 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 11:44 AM on 30 Aug 2007 Competing with the maybe-alive maybe-not ivory-billed woodpecker in the United States for Most Ethereal Species, a rare Chinese river dolphin thought to be extinct as of last December may have been spotted recently. "I never saw such a big thing in the water before, so I filmed it," said amateur creature-spotter Zeng Yujiang. Unfortunately, the footage was shot from ov ...
Topics: China, endangered species, news (all these topics)

Do as we say ... Developed world scolds China for doing what it does	David Roberts	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
For 200 years the Western world has plundered the world's oil and fouled its atmosphere, and despite a recent flurry of happy talk to the contrary, it is still doing so. So it's rich indeed for Merkel to go to China and ask them to please stop. If I were Premier Wen Jiabao, my response would be nothing but a raised middle finger. He's somewhat more polite about it.
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Gorges Ain't Gorgeous China's Three Gorges Dam plagued by environmental problems		30 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Gorges Ain't Gorgeous China's Three Gorges Dam plagued by environmental problems China's Three Gorges Dam got a lot of flak during construction for its environmental impact and for uprooting over 1 million people. A year after its completion, critics' concern about the world's largest hydroelectric project has only increased. The weight of the water behind the dam, along with frequent water-level changes, has begun to e ...
Topics: China, dams, news, water pollution (all these topics)

'Eco cities' easier said than done in today's China	David Roberts	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Remember architect Bill McDonough's much-ballyhooed "eco-cities" in China? Mara Hvistendahl points to troubling signs that the projects are falling apart.
Topics: Bill McDonough, China, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Green movements or green paint China's central government faces a choice between democracy and eco-collapse	Jon Rynn	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
'Choking on Growth' is the apt title of the new New York Times series on the 'human toll, global impact and political challenge of China's epic pollution crisis.' Epic, indeed. The first installment shows how 'As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes.' The statistics are daunting: Public health is reeling. Pollution has made cancer China's leading cause of death... Nearly 500 million people lack access to safe drinking water. Chinese cities often seem wrapped in a ...
Topics: air pollution, China, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, international politics, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Familiar China's environment still terribly polluted, getting worse		27 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
And Now for Something Completely Familiar China's environment still terribly polluted, getting worse Almost nowhere else on earth today is a source for so much environmental gloom and doom as China. To sum up: It's bad. In fact, for those prone to hopelessness ... read on, there's plenty to get depressed about. Nearly 500 million people in China lack access to safe drinking water. About 750,000 people die every ...
Topics: air pollution, China, news, water pollution (all these topics)

China and the long-distance runner Will bikes or cars win?	Jon Rynn	22 Aug 2007	Gristmill
China has an environmental problem. No, I'm not talking about weathering huge dust storms, opening one coal power plant a week, surpassing the U.S. as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, or flooding ecosystems with huge dam projects. I'm talking about something serious: If pollution does not get better in Beijing in time for the 2008 Olympics, the long-distance track events may be canceled. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, 'China's new middle cl ...
Topics: bikes, cars, China, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

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