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To Achieve its New Climate Goals, China Must Look to its Buildings
Maoqi Sun and Jennifer Layke This post is co-written with Clay Nesler, the vice president for global energy and sustainability at Johnson Controls. This post is adapted from a similar post on WRI’s...
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Chinese and U.S. Cities, States and Provinces Announce Climate Targets and...
Geoffrey Henderson At this week’s U.S.-China Climate Leaders Summit in Los Angeles, eleven cities and provinces from across China committed to reach a peak in their carbon dioxide emissions before the...
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U.S.-China Presidential Summit Offers Opportunity on Climate Change
Valerie Karplus Climate change looms large among the many issues on the table at the upcoming meeting of Presidents Xi and Obama in the U.S. next week. Any new developments at that meeting will build...
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US-China Cooperation is Good News for the Climate
Deborah Seligsohn The US-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change is a landmark for the bilateral relationship in terms of its specificity and ambition. This is especially true given that many...
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On the Path to Paris, Obama and Xi Invite Stronger Global Climate Ambition
Valerie Karplus The latest Obama-Xi announcement sends a strong message: the two nations are acting fast to enable a global low carbon transition. Friday’s joint announcement is an unprecedented step...
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US-China Climate Change Announcement Signals New Phase for Global Action
Geoffrey Henderson, Kristin Meek, David Waskow, Athena Ballesteros and Paul Joffe This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:Nearly a year ago, the United States and China laid out their...
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China, the U.S., and France: Paris and the Road Ahead
Paul Joffe and Geoffrey Henderson While the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (for short, COP21) officially begins on Monday, November 30th in Paris, the...
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China in Paris: New Responsibility, New Optimism
Deborah Seligsohn From the Paris Climate NegotiationsThere is an infectious enthusiasm among the Chinese delegation, both actual negotiators and the many academics the Chinese government brings along...
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Climate Change in Paris; Air-Pocalypse in Beijing. What’s the connection?
Deborah Seligsohn From the Paris Climate NegotiationsBy now everyone who follows environmental news or looks at the front page of major newspapers knows that in the last two weeks Beijing has suffered...
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In Paris, China Announces Promising Elements of National Emissions Trading...
Ranping Song From the Paris Climate NegotiationsNegotiators from around the world have gathered in Paris to finalize a global climate agreement, which will be supported by the commitments of over 180...
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Where Wai (outer) meets Nei (inner): How China’s international and domestic...
Michael Davidson and Valerie Karplus From the Paris Climate NegotiationsNational goal-setting—an expected key outcome from the Paris climate talks currently underway—is a common fixture of...
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Data Transparency: New Dynamic at COP-21 in Paris
Angel Hsu, Andrew Moffat and Kaiyang Xu From the Paris Climate NegotiationsCOP-21 provided key insights into China’s evolving view on emissions MRV as national leaders committed to continue building...
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China Signs Paris Agreement, Will Encourage Others to Join
World Resources Institute This post originally appeared on the World Resources Institute’s live blog covering the Signing Ceremony of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. To follow the signing ceremony...
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China's 1-2-3 Punch to Tackle Wasted Renewable Energy
Ranping Song and Miao Hong This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:China’s Renewable Energy Law prohibits curtailment, but the problem persists, partly for technical reasons. However, a...
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Carbon Capture and Storage: Prospects after Paris
Katie Lebling and Xiaoliang Yang This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:Momentum for climate action has surged since the Paris Agreement in December, with increased investment in clean,...
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U.S.-China S&ED Outcomes Show Continued Progress on Climate Change Cooperation
Chris Henderson The eighth round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue concluded today, June 7th, in Beijing. The Dialogueproduced numerous outcomes for U.S.-China cooperation on climate...
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23 Chinese Cities Commit to Peak Carbon Emissions by 2030
Wee Kean Fong This post originally appeared on WRI’s insights blog.More than half the world’s people live in cities, and cities are responsible for more than 70 percent of all energy-related carbon...
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4 Lessons on Scaling Up Sustainable Transport in US and Chinese Cities
Lulu Xue This post originally appeared on WRI’s insights blog.Transportation is already a major source of CO2 emissions in both China and the United States—at 20 percent and 30 percent, respectively....
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Decline in China's Coal Consumption Explained
Chris Henderson In a post discussing the decline in China’s coal consumption, Fergus Green, London School of Economics, highlights the connection between the slowdown in energy demand growth and the...
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Making China's Economic Transition Work for Global Climate and the Local...
Valerie Karplus and Michael Davidson When it was first announced in late 2014, China’s climate pledge was a bold and unprecedented step that gave new confidence to global efforts to mitigate climate...
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