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Welcome NEEDigest and Elizabeth Balkan!
Congratulations to Elizabeth Balkan for launching her new blog, New Energy and Environment Digest ????????, covering energy and environmental policy and regulatory standards in China. “NEEDigest” (the branding of which is slightly reminiscent of GOOD or SEED magazine) has already published eight posts, covering a variety of topics from toxic dumping to clean tech business [...]
Is the global economic meltdown good for the environment?
A recent article from GlobalPost suggests that the one “upside” to the economic crisis is a cleaner environment: Bad economy, better air? By Kathleen McLaughlin February 26, 2009 If there is a bright spot amid the global economic slump for China, it may be in the air — and in the water and soil. Dramatically slowed production [...]
TheCityFix: Beijing Offers Subsidy to Discourage Dirty Cars
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.) [...]
Brookings: “Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change”
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 [...]
PART TWO: “…and Prospects for the Future,” by Kenneth Lieberthal
***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 [...]
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