US agrees climate deal with Asia – BBC
From the BBC: The US and five Asia-Pacific states have announced a surprise pact to cut greenhouse gases which falls outside the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. China, India, South Korea, Japan and...
View ArticleChina ‘exploiting Kyoto loophole’– Fiona Harvey
Adding a new dimension to the story of China’s for-profit participation in carbon credit trading, the Financial Times reports that Chinese factories and carbon traders are raking in tidy revenues by...
View ArticleChina’s Signals on Warming – New York Times
New York Times has an editorial today: Two factors are crucial to the success of any global system to reduce greenhouse gases. One is American leadership; the other is China’s full participation....
View ArticleChina’s Ability to Tackle Greenhouse Gas Caps – Toni Johnson and Elizabeth C....
Elizabeth C. Economy, CV Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations, was interviewed by Toni Johnson. From Council of Foreign Relations website: China is one...
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Bali Needs to Know – Can China Go Green? – Robert Collier
From SF Chronicle: As international diplomats gather in Bali to try to begin negotiating a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, their toughest challenge is how to deal with China’s fast rise as the...
View ArticleGovernment Adviser Breaks with Beijing, Promotes Greenhouse Gas Reductions
Reuters reports that influential government adviser Hu Angang is breaking with Beijing to promote the economic and diplomatic benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Hu is proposing a plan to...
View ArticleOpinion: Clearing the Air with China
A Los Angeles Times editorial argues that President Barack Obama’s plans to fight climate change with new green infrastructure projects at home will do little good unless China is willing to...
View ArticleHow America Can Turn China Green
Newsweek reports on why relations between the U.S. and China can have an impact on the environment: Gao Guangsheng has an odd sense of timing. In late October, as the global financial system was...
View ArticleRich Nations Trying to Kill Kyoto Pact, says China
From Reuters.com: China and a top G77 official accused rich nations on Monday of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N.’s main weapon in the fight against global warming, as nations try to...
View ArticleChina Combats Climate Change
China began hosting the current round of UN sponsored climate talks in Beijing last Sunday. China Daily reports on the opening of the talks: The 2011 China International Forum on Climate Change opened...
View ArticleChina White Paper Boasts Progress on Carbon Emissions
China issued a white paper on Tuesday outlining its successes in reducing carbon emissions and setting new targets, while calling out the developed world to pull its weight, in a preemptive move to...
View ArticleUS and China Continue to Play Climate "Ping-Pong"
At the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, the primary goal of reaching a global agreement on emissions before the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 appears to be reaching a...
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