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That's a Mighty Full Circular File Faced with rampant pollution, China reports increase in citizen protests		05 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
That's a Mighty Full Circular File Faced with rampant pollution, China reports increase in citizen protests The sorry state of air and water quality in China has led to rising public protests, says a top environment agent there -- and citizens and officials alike are urging the country to crack down on polluters. In the first five months of 2007, the State Environmental Protecti ...
Topics: air pollution, business, China, grassroots activism, news, water pollution (all these topics)

China to West: You must be kidding Accuses us of 'green imperialism'	David Roberts	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
More or less echoing what I said here, China is telling the West to shove its climate hectoring where the sun don't shine: Asian business and government leaders have accused rich countries of hypocrisy, saying they run polluting industries with cheap labour in China and then blame the country for worsening climate change. 'This is green imperialism,' Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Malaysia's deputy finance minister, told a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum on eas ...
Topics: China, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics (all these topics)

One more truth about China and climate change It's about more than money	Christina Larson	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
It's official. China is now the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases. Having spent much of this spring reporting in China, I'd like to second just about everything David said yesterday on the topic. But I have one ginormous point to add. It's not just money that's needed. Yes, it'd be a good thing if Hill folks stopped bashing technology-exchange programs as lending an 'unfair competitive advantage.' And yes, let's stop painting China as the international ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, United States (all these topics)

Scent From Above Professional noses sniff out pollutants in China		21 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Scent From Above Professional noses sniff out pollutants in China Got a sensitive schnoz? Your services may be needed in southern China, where air-pollution experts at an environmental monitoring station are training the sharp-nosed to sniff out chemicals in the air. "We have honed our smelling skills from various sources of pollution. It will help in the detection efforts of our bureau, and, hopefully, b ...
Topics: air pollution, China, funnies, news, toxics (all these topics)

Seven truths about China and climate change That you won't hear in the mainstream media	David Roberts	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
China has officially passed the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. This is likely to prompt a lot of misinformation and obfuscation from the usual quarters. So here are some simple truths about China and global warming that everyone should remember as the debate proceeds. 1. The U.S. still vastly outpaces China in terms of per-capita GHG emissions, and will for the foreseeable future. That's because the U.S. is a much more industrializ ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

And They're Off China overtakes United States as world's biggest polluter, agency says		20 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
And They're Off China overtakes United States as world's biggest polluter, agency says The United States is no longer the world's biggest polluter. That honor goes to China, which emitted some 8 percent more carbon dioxide in 2006 than Bushland, according to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. But on a per-person basis, Americans pollute roughly four to five times more than folks in China. And while the emissions ...
Topics: China, climate, energy, news (all these topics)

China's unveils new climate change plan Still a Great Wall to progress	Maywa Montenegro	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
On the heels of Bush's bluster of the week, China today released its first comprehensive plan for climate change. But as the NY Times reports, it too isn't much to sing about. Said Ma Kai, head of China's National Development and Reform Commission: Our general stance is that China will not commit to any quantified emissions reduction targets, but that does not mean we will not assume responsibilities in responding to climate change. Thus, the plan calls for i ...
Topics: China, climate, energy, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Sounds Familiar China releases first climate plan, says economic concerns are key		04 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Sounds Familiar China releases first climate plan, says economic concerns are key China has released its first-ever national climate-change plan, a 62-page document that pledges to improve energy efficiency, increase the use of renewables, develop drought-resistant crops, and expand emissions-absorbing forests. But the country's leaders emphasized that they don't want to sacrifice economic growth. "We ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

A Kodak moment indeed Satellite images reveal scale of destruction	Andrew Sharpless	10 May 2007	Gristmill
To you, this picture may look like ants marching in a desert, but among ocean experts, it has gone as viral as Britney's shaved head. What you're seeing is an image of shrimp trawlers off the coast of China, taken from space. Those teeny tiny specs are responsible for destroying huge swaths of seafloor, and thanks to these images, which appeared in the prestigious journal Nature yesterday, scientists now have irrefutable visual evidence to prove what they could ...
Topics: China, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

One Bad Scrapple Spoils the Bunch Regulators reveal new information on China-U.S. food links		09 May 2007	Daily Grist
One Bad Scrapple Spoils the Bunch Regulators reveal new information on China-U.S. food links The tangled food relationship between China and the U.S. keeps getting tangledier. As new details emerge in the wake of the March wave of pet deaths, concerns about the possibility of tainted food reaching U.S. dinner tables are growing. U.S. regulators said yesterday that cyanuric acid, a chemical used as a ...
Topics: agriculture, China, industrial ag, news, United States (all these topics)

Battle of the developed vs. the developing Climate change justice is contentious	Joseph Romm	04 May 2007	Gristmill
As this round of the IPCC unfolds, developing countries are scurrying to relieve themselves of any major responsibility for historic emissions and, consequently, aggressive mitigation policies. For example, China has requested inserting language that formally recognizes the percentage of emissions for which developed countries are responsible -- 95 percent from the pre-industrial era until 1950, and 77 percent from 1950 to the start of the millennium. China is als ...
Topics: air pollution, China, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC, United States (all these topics)

Power, program, and practical considerations: Objectives How to build a real climate movement	Ken Ward	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
((brightlines_include)) Campaigns and programs crafted to advance the Bright Lines strategy must also fit real world constraints and political realities on the ground, and take account of external roadblocks to effective action. The following objectives address these issues. 1. Tangible risk. Climate change is like world hunger: it's an issue of concern when media attention is high, just as coverage of periodic famines raises concern about world hunger. Most American ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, India, politics (all these topics)

Integrated urbanism in Dongtan Building the world's largest eco-city	Chris Schults	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The May 2007 issue of Wired Magazine has a piece about the development of the world's largest eco-city, Dongtan, underway on the outskirts of Shanghai (as we reported in May of last year). The article focuses on Alejandro Gutierrez and his team from Arup (project info here). Recommended reading.
Topics: China, urban planning, placemaking (all these topics)

America is Dragon China's carbon-cutting more ambitious than many assume		27 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
America is Dragon China's carbon-cutting more ambitious than many assume Used to be, the U.S. couldn't do anything about climate change because climate change wasn't real. Now the U.S. can't do anything about climate change because ... China's not doing anything about climate change. But surprise! Turns out China, despite being the huge energy-sucker that slipped through the Kyoto Protocol's developing-country loophole, is working on ...
Topics: China, climate, news (all these topics)

But By All Means, Keep Filling Your Tank Gunmen attack Ethiopian oil field run by Chinese company		24 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
But By All Means, Keep Filling Your Tank Gunmen attack Ethiopian oil field run by Chinese company A story unfolding at press time gives a taste of that global energy-security issue everyone's worried about: according to news reports, gunmen attacked an oil field in eastern Ethiopia run by a Chinese company, killing 65 local workers and nine Chinese workers, and taking seven Chinese hostages. Xu Shuang, acting manager o ...
Topics: China, energy, Ethiopia, news, oil (all these topics)

Oh, China, China, China	David Roberts	23 Apr 2007	Gristmill
First, I see this: China warned on global warming effects And then this: China detains environmental activist Guess he shouldn't have warned them!
Topics: China, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

On the Ball: Dare to dream Wouldn't it be great if Beijing did pull off a green Olympics?	Sarah K. Burkhalter	21 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Along with some guy named Al Gore, Olympics chief Jacques Rogge has been honored with an award by the United Nations for being an environmental enforcer. Good on ya, Jacques! (Perhaps he was behind the fancy sewer heating system in Vancouver?) The next Olympics hurtling our way is Beijing 2008, and apparently the International Olympic Committee is concerned about sooty air and traffic congestion. You know what I'd like to see? After all this bad press, it'd b ...
Topics: celebrity, China, green living, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

The responsibility era	David Roberts	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The editors of The New Republic make a simple point that can't be made often enough: The conservative notion that reducing GHG emissions in the U.S. is pointless unless China and India do the same is a moral grotesquery. We created the problem. Ethically and geopolitically, we are responsible for leading the way to a solution. Call it "the responsibility era."
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, India, politics, United States (all these topics)

Wen, the Time Is Right China agrees to participate in post-Kyoto negotiations		13 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Wen, the Time Is Right China agrees to participate in post-Kyoto negotiations China has agreed to participate in talks about a framework to fight global warming after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Enviros danced a joyful jig, as the decision puts pressure on other, non-communicative nations (we're not naming names). China is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol as a developing country, so its emissions a ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

The Route of the Problem Following U.S. consumerism through the fields of China and Brazil	Tom Philpott	12 Apr 2007	Victual Reality
In what surely counts as one of the greatest feats in the history of global trade, the United States has essentially outsourced its manufacturing base to China in little more than a decade. It all starts with shuttered factories. Photo: iStockphoto But in doing so, the U.S. has helped unleash new trends in global agriculture that threaten global climate stability and biodiversit ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Brazil, China, industrial ag, United States, Victual Reality, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Show me the money How to save the last carbon sinks	biodiversivist	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Marcel Silvius recently declared in the Herald Tribune that palm oil is a failure as a biofuel. Rhett Butler over at Mongabay thinks otherwise, as he argues in an article titled, um, 'Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel.' His main point is that even if America and Europe were to reject palm oil biodiesel as inherently unsustainable, the forests would still be converted to palm oil by China. We can't stop its development by refusing to use it, so we (by 'we' he mean ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, China, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

The most polluted city on earth	David Roberts	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Linfen, China. Yuck.
Topics: air pollution, China, water pollution (all these topics)

Olympic-sized task Endangered species and Beijing	Erik Hoffner	19 Mar 2007	Gristmill
China is currently the world's largest consumer of illegal 'wildlife products' -- 40 percent of the global market. And that number's only going to grow as its economy strengthens. WildAid has gone to the battlements with its Conservation Awareness program, using the '08 Olympics in Beijing as an opportunity to highlight the need for conservation. They'll be enlisting athletes to educate folks about this issue during the games, and have developed a number of PSAs featuri ...
Topics: China, endangered species, green living, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

On Track Betting A journey on China's controversial new train to Tibet	Erica Gies	23 Feb 2007	Main Dish
Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. A mere 48 hours later, it rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. Waiting to depart from Beijing. Photos: Erica Gies Shortly after 9 p.m. one warm night last fall, my travel companion and I raced through the sprawling West Beijing train station, weaving our way through a crush of humanity sitting on newspapers and bits of cardboard, eating cups ...
Topics: China, placemaking, public transportation, Tibet (all these topics)

Now That's a Bald Spot Demand for air conditioning in developing countries hurts ozone		23 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Now That's a Bald Spot Demand for air conditioning in developing countries hurts ozone Remember when Britney had just broken up with K-Fed, and she seemed happy and healthy and getting her life back on track, and then things ... took a turn for the worse? Let us draw a slightly strained analogy to the ozone layer. As ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons were banned in Europe and began to be phased out in the U.S., the y ...
Topics: China, climate, India, news, ozone (all these topics)

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