Coal, Nuclear Capacity to Rise as Solar, Wind Goals Fall
In response to mounting public anger over China’s infamous urban air pollution, authorities...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 8, 2016
In response to mounting public anger over China’s infamous urban air pollution, authorities...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 2, 2014
China today accounts for more than half of the world’s photovoltaic (PV) production, and the...
by Josh Rudolph | May 26, 2013
One of China’s ongoing food safety scandals involves the illegal recycling, repackaging, and reuse of cooking oil — which after crude processing is known as “gutter oil” (地沟油). In the midst of an ongoing food...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 21, 2011
Reuters reports confirmation of plans to inject $1.7 trillion dollars into key strategic sectors of China’s economy over the next five years. The confirmation of the huge sum of money showed Beijing’s ambition to...
by Sophie Beach | May 2, 2011
Reuters reports on the development of China’s nuclear industry, which doesn’t seem to be fazed by the recent disaster in Japan: Many of the nuclear research institutes across the country are working on advanced...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 11, 2009
The Christian Science Monitor reports on China’s efforts to become a world leader in green technologies: Chinese factories already make a third of the world’s solar cells – six times more than America. Next year, China...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 21, 2009
The sun is big news in China today. From the Los Angeles Times: China’s government says it will pay up to 70 percent of the price of new solar power systems in an effort to speed development of clean energy industries. The...
by Sophie Beach | May 10, 2009
Despite China’s abundant use of coal which worries environmentalists around the world, the country is also at the forefront of developing cleaner coal power plants, the New York Times reports: While the United States is...
by Xiao Niu | Dec 5, 2008
This next article in the CDT series on important issues facing China in 2008 focuses on the Environment. See also previous posts on Nationalism, the Developing World, and the Global Financial Crisis. China’s environmental...
by Xiao Niu | Nov 13, 2008
Professor Jiang Gaoming discusses how farmers in rural China could use straw to reduce China’s carbon footprint in his China Dialogue article: China’s population is mainly rural, and if that population realises its full...
by Kiran Goldman | Mar 18, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reports on China’s growing interest in wind energy: China’s NRDC, the top economic planning agency, said renewable energy will provide 10% of the country’s energy use by 2010. As part of the...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 3, 2008
China Dialogue looks at two companies in Beijing that are promoting energy conservation: Xiongcai aims to solve some very real problems: how can China make use of its current stock of 4.8 million coal-burning boilers? How can...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 10, 2007
by Sophie Beach | May 4, 2007
Following the media’s current “greening of China” trend, Seed Magazine has a lengthy and interesting report about a growing environmental consciousness: What Linxia has in abundance, however, is...
by Sophie Beach | May 3, 2007
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