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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Breaking the U.S.-China suicide pact William Chandler's recommendations on how we can cooperate to lower emissions	Joseph Romm	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
William Chandler, director of the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program, has borrowed my phrase for the title of his new study: 'Breaking the Suicide Pact: U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change.' It begins: Together, China and the United States produce 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Their actions to curb or expand energy consumption will determine whether efforts to stop global climate change succeed or fail. If these two nations act to curb emissions, ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, United States (all these topics)

Gnashing my teeth over globalization Can economic democracy make the global economy more sustainable?	Jon Rynn	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Worried about more coal plants, carbon emissions from transportation, and a crumbling infrastructure? Evidence provided by several recent reports point to one of the least explored causes of these problems: globalization, that is, the transfer of manufacturing capacity from developed to developing countries, particularly China. The mechanisms differ. The U.S. and Europe, which could manufacture using environmentally benign techniques, instead use old, polluting techn ...
Topics: economy, United States, China, business, climate, energy, air pollution, coal, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Made for the USA? On who is accountable for Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions	Kit Stolz	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Yesterday a D.C. nonprofit, the Center for Global Development, released an inventory of the world's power plants. Its nifty database shows that on a national level, China trails only the the U.S. in total emissions of greenhouse gases, and not by much. This will disappoint the global warming proponents at the National Review, who have been predicting for months that China will surpass the traditional emissions champ -- the United States -- this year. But both the s ...
Topics: China, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, United States (all these topics)

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