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Data Transparency: New Dynamic at COP-21 in Paris
Angel Hsu, Andrew Moffat and Kaiyang Xu From the Paris Climate NegotiationsCOP-21 provided key insights into China’s evolving view on emissions MRV as national leaders committed to continue building...
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Press Call on China's Climate Action and the 13th Five Year Plan
Geoffrey Henderson China’s 13th Five Year Plan, to be released in the coming days, will provide a blueprint for the country’s economic, social, and environmental development through 2020. More...
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In China and Beyond, Action Plans Provide a Path for Improving Building...
Sifan Liu This post originally appeared on TheCityFix.Unique to China, Five-Year Plans (FYPs) are blueprints that central, state and local governments draft and implement to guide social and economic...
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5 Questions: What Does China’s New Five-Year Plan Mean for Climate Action?
Geoffrey Henderson, Ranping Song and Paul Joffe This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:China has officially unveiled its 13th Five-Year Plan, which will guide the country’s economic and...
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China’s Low-Carbon Strategy: Could a Carbon Tax Play a Role?
Carla Freeman and Bo Li As reflected in the emphasis on “green development” of the recently-released 13th Five Year Plan, China’s leaders recognize the need to shift to a more sustainable,...
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China’s Thirteenth Five-Year Plan Paves the Way for a CO2 Emissions Peak
Valerie J. Karplus Based on recent economic developments and the newly-released Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, China is well on its way to reaching its climate goal of peak CO2 emissions by 2030.The Plan...
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Press Call Analyzing China's 13th Five Year Plan
Geoffrey Henderson China recently released its 13th Five Year Plan, which will guide China’s economic, social, and environmental policy through 2020. The plan makes clear that China is integrating...
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How China's 13th Five-Year Plan Addresses Energy and the Environment
Deborah Seligsohn and Angel Hsu This post originally appeared on ChinaFile.For the first time ever, a senior Chinese leader announced in his work report to the National People’s Congress—his most...
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U.S. and China To Sign, Join Paris Agreement This Year, Deepen Cooperation on...
Geoffrey Henderson The United States and China have issued a joint presidential statement confirming that they will each sign the Paris Agreement on April 22nd and take steps to join the agreement as...
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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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