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.
Bottom line? “China’s environment is in bad shape,” he says. On Friday, Brookings will publish Lieberthal’s most [...]

Call for papers: China and global climate change

A notice via the University of California, Los Angeles CHINAPOL listerv:
Call for conference papers (Deadline February 8th, 2009)
CHINA AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE:
Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

Conference Dates: 18-19 June 2009
Location: Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
Website: http://www.ln.edu.hk/caps/conference.php
The Centre for Asian Pacific Studies (CAPS) and the Environmental Studies Programme (ESP) at Lingnan University, [...]

The ABCs of pollution: Atmospheric brown clouds threaten environment, quality of life in China

This was originally posted on December 11 at  TheCityFix.com:
By Erica Schlaikjer
Man-made clouds of pollution, stretching from Beijing to New Delhi, are threatening the water and food security in Asia, according to a recent report from the United Nations Environment Programme.
These massive brown plumes of smog - known as atmospheric brown clouds or “ABCs” - consist [...]

What Obama’s win means for China

YES, WE DID! And I was there! Here’s a shot of the rally at Grant Park in Chicago, where an estimated 125,000 people showed up to support the Obama-Biden ticket:
Obama’s decisive and historic victory in the U.S. presidential election brings many hopes and promises.
What could his tenure in the White House mean for China’s environment?
Bloomberg.com [...]

Green Olympic sponsor: ExxonMobil

I’ve been watching Olympics coverage on NBC like a fiend. It’s an addiction. Those dramatic intros, that heart-pulsing music, those bite-size pieces of sports footage and that occasionally dorky commentary by Bob Costas–it’s pure entertainment. And let’s face it, I have Phelps Phever. I even friended him on Facebook.
And those commercials! I practically shed a [...]