The cost of controlling air pollution in China?

A question from the PACE listserv:

“We see a lot of attention is on urban air pollution in China these days with Beijing Olympics around the corner. Do you know, officially or unofficially in the papers, roughly how much they are spending on air pollution control per year in China (in some of the cities like [...]

Welcome to contributing blogger Sophia Mendelsohn!

We’ve added another person to our team!

My name is Sophia Mendelsohn, which the Chinese translate into “Su Fei.”
I am living in Shanghai and have been for three years. Each year we watch as the city grows increasingly international, but becomes a little grayer up above our heads. It is no doubt that you can [...]

New to the China blogosphere: The Green Leap Forward

Welcome Julian Wong of The Green Leap Forward, a new blog focused on “understanding the green revolution that is gradually sweeping over China’s red-hot economy.”
Wong, a self-described “ecopreneur,” is a Fulbright Fellow at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. He earned a master’s degree in environmental and energy policy from , and he also holds a law [...]

WWF China and the Olympics

I received a message from Xiaowei Su, the Project Coordinator for WWF China’s Go for Gold campaign, an initiative targeted at encouraging Olympic athletes, National Olympic committees (NOC), and individual tourists to offset the carbon emission from their Olympic air travel before the Beijing Games.
Please be sure to check out these Web sites, according to [...]

A message from Peter Bosshard

Got this email from Peter Bosshard, who I interviewed about China’s relationship with Africa (read my previous post here):
Dear Supporter,
My name is Peter Bosshard and I’m the Policy Director at International Rivers. I wanted to invite you to a presentation that I will be giving at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Wednesday, [...]