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China benefits from rise in carbon-credit trading – MarketWatch
With its successful pursuit of carbon emissions trading, China proves environmentalism need not be a non-profit venture, but the approach isn’t all blue skies. From Dow Jones: Chinese corporations 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 ArticleCleaning up China: Opportunities Beckon for U.S. Businesses – CAP
Denis McDonough and Peter Ogden at the Center for American Progress write an op-ed on CAP’s website calling on the US government and companies to jump on China’s booming clean energy market: China’s...
View ArticleChina To Set Up UN Emissions-trading Hub – Shanghai Daily
Add pollution to the long list of advantages China enjoys in the new global economy. State-run press just announced that China and the UN have agreed to set up a carbon trading exchange in Beijing”the...
View ArticleChina Tilts Green – Shai Oster
From the Wall Street Journal: Ningxia has cooperated with scientists from Britain and Canada on clean-energy programs and climate-change modeling. An official at the province’s meteorological...
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Europe Pays for China to Cut Gases – Michael Bristow
A BBC News article attributes the rising cost of electricity in the UK, a burden for the poor, in part to carbon trading and questions whether the system induces actual reductions in greenhouse gas...
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...
View ArticleChina-India Deal to Resist Carbon Caps
Despite recent cross-border tensions, India and China are teaming up on climate change ahead of the UN Conference in Copenhagen in December. From the Financial Times: India and China struck an...
View ArticleUN Halts Funds to China Wind Farms
While China’s advances in wind power have received much attention recently, the UN is now concerned over China’s use of a carbon trading policy. The Financial Times (via CNN) explains: China has been...
View ArticleChina’s Green Progress Leaves US Red-Faced
The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts contrasts the momentum of Chinese and American emissions trading schemes, and suggests that the United States’ lack of leadership could be a strategic error: China is both...
View ArticleEU Climate Chief: China’s Middle Class Will Drive Environmental Progress
The European Union’s climate action commissioner expressed optimism for environmental progress in China, suggesting that pragmatism and middle-class pressure would drive policy. From the AFP: [Connie]...
View ArticleCarbon Cap Proposed, Trading Pilot Unveiled
China, whose 2011 per capita carbon emissions rose to match those of the EU, has proposed to enact a nationwide cap on carbon emissions by 2016. The Independent reports: The battle against global...
View ArticleChina’s Environment in 2013
For Shanghaiist, chinadialogue editor Sam Geall reviews ten major environmental stories from China in 2013, from the persistent pall of air pollution to the armada of dead pigs that descended on...
View ArticleChina Urged To Limit Carbon Emissions For First Time
Adam Vaughan and Tania Branigan at The Guardian report the claim, later withdrawn, by a high-level advisor representing China’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change that by the end of the decade,...
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