Peggy Liu, chairperson of the Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE), visited New York University this week to discuss the future of green energy in China, and to recruit volunteer support for upcoming projects. JUCCCE, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and San Francisco, is one of the main accelerators of the “green” China movement. [...]
Photo by Lim CK. Originally posted on TheCityFix.com: Beijing is prepared to pay up to 1 billion yuan (about $146 million) in subsidies to get citizens to ditch their dirty cars and purchase cleaner ones. (Read Laura Root’s recent post on TheCityFix.com about the pros and cons of these types of “cash for clunkers” programs.) [...]
This post is written by Carolyn Gou, special contributor to RespChi. Carolyn is a junior at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she is majoring in English literature. She says she has a passion for NGO promotion in China and wants to further her studies in public affairs. She is currently interning at the World Resources [...]
***This post is a continuation of PART ONE: “China’s Environmental Crisis,” by Kenneth Lieberthal.*** Kenneth Lieberthal, visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution, spoke last night about “China’s Environmental Crisis and Prospects for the Future” at the The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. ACTION and [...]
Kenneth Lieberthal, visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution, spoke last night about “China’s Environmental Crisis and Prospects for the Future” at the The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. Bottom line? “China’s environment is in bad shape,” he says. On Friday, Brookings will publish Lieberthal’s [...]