{"id":68421,"date":"2010-05-07T18:49:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T01:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=68421"},"modified":"2010-05-07T18:49:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T01:49:25","slug":"bruce-usher-red-china-green-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/05\/bruce-usher-red-china-green-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Usher: Red China, Green China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/07\/opinion\/07Usher.html\">op-ed in the New York Times <\/a>looks at the clean energy market in China:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>True, China has a long way to go before it can claim the  mantle of global market leadership in clean technology. Unlike the  United States, however, it has spent the last few years shaping its  industrial policy to achieve precisely that goal.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s  determination to become the global leader in clean tech has little to do  with concerns for the environment and everything to do with jobs. For  the foreseeable future, the greatest challenge for Beijing is to ensure  full employment and rising income levels. The rapidly growing  clean-technology sector is one of the few that can provide a sufficient  number of new jobs. (Disclosure: I invest in clean energy in America and  abroad.)<\/p>\n<p>This wouldn\u2019t be the first time China has taken economic  advantage of opportunities resulting from climate change. The Kyoto  Protocol, which caps greenhouse-gas emissions in Europe and Japan up to  2012, includes market-based mechanisms to promote the reduction of  emissions at the lowest cost. The largest of these is the <a title=\"Description of the  Clean Development Mechanism\" href=\"http:\/\/cdm.unfccc.int\/about\/index.html\">Clean Development Mechanism,<\/a> which  allows developing countries like China to generate credits from cuts in  their greenhouse-gas emissions that are then sold to developed  countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An op-ed in the New York Times looks at the clean energy market in China: True, China has a long way to go before it can claim the mantle of global market leadership in clean technology. 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