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A Green Leap Forward
China’s explosive 9.5 percent annual growth since the market reforms of 1978 has transformed the society by squeezing an entire industrial revolution into one tumultuous generation. It has also brutalized China’s environment and placed enormous strain on its natural resources, necessitating the development of cleaner alternative energies to offset the costs of China’s dramatic rise.
The 'Queen of Green' sets eyes on China
In 1995, Morgan Stanley published "The Internet Report," a groundbreaking study that became known as a Bible for investors during the dot-com revolution in the United States.
The Prospect of Cleantech in China
China Entrepreneurs, China Cleantech Focus, Camco, Cleantech Thursdays, and China Greentech Initiative hosted an event yesterday evening at the Kerry Centre hotel in Beijing – “The “3rd Annual Cleantech Investor Panel”.
2009 Pacific Energy Summit Report now available for download
NBR’s inaugural Pacific Energy Summit convened in Tokyo, Japan on November 3-5, 2009 with the theme “Energy Security and Economic Growth in the Asia Pacific: Innovations, markets, and smart policies for a low-carbon future.” The Summit Report outlines the key findings that emerged over two days of discussion.
Clean energy's a jobs powerhouse
People across the country are struggling to find and keep jobs because of what many have deemed the worst economy since the Great Depression. A recent report indicates that we now have the chance to create a new clean energy economy -- one that can provide job opportunities and a bright future for people across the ``Sunshine State.''
Green Notes
The ClimateWorks foundation in San Francisco has produced some valuable primer-videos on China’s wind power industry and its foray into solar manufacturing.
The power game
In the face-off for sustainable power and responsible strategies, China is beating America hands down. As widely predicted, there was to be no fairytale ending from the land of Hans Christian Andersen following the climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, last month. But the world’s prospects of finding a meaningful solution to the problem of global warming were at least given an 11th-hour boost when China and the US, the planet’s two biggest polluters, made energy use and emissions’ commitments – for the very first time – just before the summit began.
China Greentech Initiative Releases Sector Studies
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 14 January 2010 - China is forecasted to become a US$ 500 million to US$ 1 billion a year market in green technologies. In a follow-up to its 2009 China Greentech Report, the China Greentech Initiative recently released its sector studies, with more in-depth data and analysis on: Cleaner Conventional Energy, Renewable Energy, Electric Power Infrastructure, Cleaner Transportation, Green Building, Cleaner Industry and Clean water.
There Goes China and Here We Sit Bickering
It is clear the present Chinese leaders intend to solve their nation's energy and pollution problems while at the same time strengthening its economy by developing their nation's abundant New Energy assets.
Growing new jobs in a greener world
People across the country are struggling to find and keep jobs because of what many have deemed the worst economy since the Great Depression. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the statewide unemployment rate for October in Oregon was 11.2 percent. And while that's a slight improvement over September, more than 218,000 Oregonians were still unemployed in October -- roughly 75,000 more than a year ago.
China Greentech industry potentially worth USD 1 trillion
China's green energy market will be worth over US$1 trillion annually according to a report by the China Greentech Initiative.
China marks its presence at World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi
UAE. More than 40 world leading renewable energy companies from China have confirmed their participation in the World Future Energy Summit which is now in its third year and will be held from 18-21 January 2010, in Abu Dhabi, with a particularly strong level of participation from the solar energy sector. The Chinese pavilion has already grown to more than 1,000 square meters.
China becomes world number three in wind-power capacity
China is now the world’s number three in wind-power production, according to official press agency Xinhua. China’s installed wind capacity reached 20 gigawatts this year, Shi Lishan, vice director of the National Energy Administration's New Energy Department, said, Xinhua announced today. This compared with 12 gigawatts at the end of 2008, and only 764,000 kilowatts in 2004.
China plays Pipelineistan
BEIJING - For all the rhapsodies on the advent of the New Silk Road, it may have come into effect for good last week, when China and Central Asia got together to open a crucial Pipelineistan node linking Turkmenistan to China's Xinjiang.
China getting set in Central Asia
For all the rhapsodies on the advent of the New Silk Road, it may have come into effect for good last week, when China and Central Asia got together to open a crucial Pipelineistan node linking Turkmenistan to China's Xinjiang.
Earth to Thomas Friedman: Winning the “Earth Race” Requires Federal Investment
In a major departure from conventional climate wisdom, Thomas Friedman argues in today’s New York Times that the UNFCCC framework is broken and should be replaced by a global competition in the clean-tech industry, which he says the United States can and should lead. “Let the Earth Race begin,” he declares, contrasting this with the long-dominant “Earth Day” strategy.
China Moves Up in Renewable Energy
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (UPI) — China is the second most attractive place in the world to invest in renewable energy, says an Ernst & Young report released Wednesday.
Myth vs. Reality on the Copenhagen Climate Summit
The meeting in Copenhagen was always intended to be part of a process for structuring an international agreement, not the end of it. The same was true of the Kyoto Protocol—now currently the only international agreement on climate change— which took four years to negotiate and seven years to enter into force.
3BL Media’s Posterous
Behind the notorious clouds of filth and greenhouse gases that China’s industrial behemoth spews into the atmosphere every day, a little-noticed revolution is under way. China is going green.
AmCham Shanghai: Leadership in Greentech
AmCham Shanghai’s Leadership in Greentech video provides an overview of the tremendously successful conference Greentech: A Call to Action and AmCham Shanghai’s China Greentech Report, released at the World Economic Forum in Dalian in September.
China pushes solar, wind power development
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The world's solar companies gathered here recently amid the nation's largest solar market under a brilliant sun – and the looming shadow of China.
Clean energy comes, green market follows
Clean energy may be the most talked about phrase at the third International CEO Roundtable of Chinese and Foreign Multinational Corporations. The roundtable is an annual event for business leaders to sit down and come up with solutions to economic issues.
Obama's China trip is high-stakes mission for environment
(CNN) -- When President Obama visits China next week, global climate change will top the agenda. The stakes could hardly be higher -- for the two Pacific powers and for the world.
Regime Change Short-Circuited: Carbon Emissions and Japan’s Feed-in Tariff System
One of Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio’s first public acts, in September, was to propose a 25% cut in the country’s carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, relative to 1990 levels.
Tower of Power
In China, one doesn't have to look far to see the country's commitment to renewable energy.
Can China Grow Green?
Exclusive Interview with Ellen G. Carberry of The China Greentech Initiative by Marisha Wojciechowska-Shibuya: (MaximsNewsNetwork)
UK companies must sharpen their focus to make China pay, CBI warns
Britain needs to ‘sharpen its focus’ and ‘think local’ if it wants to capitalise on the business opportunities presented by China’s transition to a low-carbon economy, the Confederation of British Industry’s leading green business expert has warned.
Sweltering in carbon-intensive Beijing
The China Greentech Initiative – a group of 80 companies, NGOs, policy wonks and other interested parties – estimated in a report earlier this year that ‘greening’ China’s relentless expansion would be worth £600bn a year.
Commerce Secretary Locke Announces Support for U.S.-China Energy Cooperation Program
Innovative Public-Private Partnership to Promote U.S. Clean Energy Business in China
Riding China’s Green Wave
The China Greentech Initiative is an open source, commercial collaboration among 80 leading technology and service companies, entrepreneurs, investors, nongovernmental organizations and policy advisers.
Axial Vector Announces Penetration Into China
Axial Vector Energy Corporation ("AVEC") (PINKSHEETS: AXVC) (FRANKFURT: BAE1) announced today its plan to expand aggressively into China.
Green China & the Clean-Tech Race
On Capitol Hill today, the Senate introduces a bill meant to slow global warming. Meanwhile, back on the windfarm, American entrepreneurs are taking the problem seriously — as an environmental threat but also as the next great economic prize.
China's Wind Farms Come With a Catch: Coal Plants
China's ambition to create "green cities" powered by huge wind farms comes with a dirty little secret: Dozens of new coal-fired power plants need to be installed as well.
China's Big Green Push Means More Coal
China expands its renewable energy production, it also pushes further into dirty energy, like coal.
China leads way for solar energy
In as little as two years, analysts predict, China will be the world's biggest consumer of solar energy.
China’s Green-Tech Market: $1 Trillion By 2013
A new report says China’s green-tech market could reach $1 trillion by 2013.
China speeds up along the path of green tech
It would be easy to view the electric vehicles used to take delegates to the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China earlier this month as a gimmick.
US and China announce US$1tr for low-carbon technologies by 2013
The Chinese low-carbon technologies market could reach $1 Trillion and 15% of its GDP in 2013, reports Envido. The China Greentech Initiative, a group of more than 80 private and public stakeholders from the US and China, released a report outlining opportunities to grow China’s low-carbon technologies market.
Solar Energy’s Future Shines Brightest in China
With the announcement that it intends to build the world’s largest solar power plant, China is rapidly evolving into the world’s largest market for solar energy. And with heavy government backing, Chinese solar companies are quickly becoming global leaders.
The China Greentech Report 2009 launch at Dalian
The China Greentech Initiative launched its first analysis on the green technology market in China, The China Greentech Report 2009, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2009 in Dalian.
Greentech: Call to Action conference
Greentech: A Call to Action is based on market-defining analysis and unprecedented US-China collaborative programs. The conference provides a roadmap to move from agreements and discussions to actionable greentech solutions.
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