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China Signs Paris Agreement, Will Encourage Others to Join
World Resources Institute This post originally appeared on the World Resources Institute’s live blog covering the Signing Ceremony of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. To follow the signing ceremony...
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China's 1-2-3 Punch to Tackle Wasted Renewable Energy
Ranping Song and Miao Hong This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:China has emerged as a leader in renewable energy. Investment soared from $39 billion to $111 billion in just five...
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Carbon Capture and Storage: Prospects after Paris
Katie Lebling and Xiaoliang Yang This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:Momentum for climate action has surged since the Paris Agreement in December, with increased investment in clean,...
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U.S.-China S&ED Outcomes Show Continued Progress on Climate Change Cooperation
Chris Henderson The eighth round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue concluded today, June 7th, in Beijing. The Dialogue produced numerous outcomes for U.S.-China cooperation on climate...
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23 Chinese Cities Commit to Peak Carbon Emissions by 2030
Wee Kean Fong This post originally appeared on WRI’s insights blog.More than half the world’s people live in cities, and cities are responsible for more than 70 percent of all energy-related carbon...
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4 Lessons on Scaling Up Sustainable Transport in US and Chinese Cities
Lulu Xue This post originally appeared on WRI’s insights blog.Transportation is already a major source of CO2 emissions in both China and the United States—at 20 percent and 30 percent, respectively....
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Decline in China's Coal Consumption Explained
Chris Henderson In a post discussing the decline in China’s coal consumption, Fergus Green, London School of Economics, highlights the connection between the slowdown in energy demand growth and the...
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Making China's Economic Transition Work for Global Climate and the Local...
Valerie Karplus and Michael Davidson When it was first announced in late 2014, China’s climate pledge was a bold and unprecedented step that gave new confidence to global efforts to mitigate climate...
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China's Climate Leadership and the G20 Summit
Joanna Lewis Climate change is the area in which China has shown perhaps the strongest international leadership. As China hosts the G20, we can expect energy and climate to be front and center.read more
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Ahead of G20 in Hangzhou, U.S. and China Join Paris Agreement
Chris Henderson On September 3rd, 2016, the United States and China formally joined the Paris Agreement on climate change. The announcement came at a bilateral meeting between President Barack Obama...
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China’s Air Pollution Standards Will Drive Technology Innovation
Deborah Seligsohn While Chinese air pollution has become world famous, over the last couple of years there has been a slowly growing awareness that the Chinese government is working hard to reduce it,...
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Clean Air, Cool Climate: Solving these problems together
Jonathan Moch Given the health risks posed by air pollution, it is easy to understand why the Chinese government wants to address this problem. However, the dilemma is that some steps to clean up air...
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Continuing cooperation with China on clean energy and climate change in US...
Joanna Lewis The United States and China, the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, have been cooperating on climate change and clean energy for several decades. Since 2009, this...
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China is Leaving the U.S. Behind on Clean Energy Investment
Joel Jaeger, Paul Joffe, and Ranping Song This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog.As 2017 begins, China is poised to leap ahead of the United States on clean energy to become the most...
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China’s Decline in Coal Consumption Drives Global Slowdown in Emissions
Chris Henderson, Ranping Song, and Paul Joffe This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog.In his address to the World Economic Forum today, Chinese President Xi showed China’s willingness to...
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