The Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog takes an optimistic look at China’s use of renewable energy:
Lisa Stiffler of the P-I writes in her Environment blog about a Worldwatch Institute study on energy development in China.
* China will likely achieve — and may even exceed — its target to obtain 15 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020.
* More than $50 billion was invested in renewable energy worldwide in 2006, and China is expected to invest over $10 billion in new renewables capacity in 2007, second only to Germany. [Full text]