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Topic:Climate Change and Energy
Unrestrained development and industrialization throughout the country makes China particularly vulnerable to growing changes of climate. Extreme ecological events are now common news headlines in China—such as snowstorms, floods and drought. Estimates for the disappearance of China’s glaciers are as immanent as 2035 to 2050. Forty percent of the world's population lives depend on rivers originating in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau, rivers that depend heavily on the glaciers. China, with its economy based mainly on heavy industry and coal for cheap energy, emits high levels of greenhouse gases—recently overtaking the United States as the global emitter of carbon dioxide—ultimately accelerating global warming and climate change. China is building a new 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power plant every week, consumes half the world’s cement, a quarter of all steel, and two-fifths of all copper. The Chinese government has begun to adopt stricter energy conservation legislation and increase and international cooperation, but with only 7% of energy coming from renewable energy and another 2% from hydropower, coal accounts for 70% of energy and 80% of electricity. Growing demand and slowing supply of energy—due in part to China’s efforts to close small-scale coal mines—led the National Development and Reform Commission to predict an energy supply shortfall as high as 10 gigawatts for summer 2008.
China National Climate Change Program
China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change
Reports:
Scorecards on Best and Worst Policies for a Green New Deal (2009)
A Roadmap for U.S.–China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration(2009)
U.S.-China Clean Energy Cooperation: The Road Ahead(2009)
Technology Transfer to China to Address Climate Change Mitigation (2009)
China's Energy Transition: Pathways to Low Carbon Development (2009)
Smart Power in US-China Relations(2009)
China’s Green Revolution(2009)
Strengthening US-China Climate Change and Energy Engagement(2009)
Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change(2009)
Common Challenge, Collaborative Response: A Roadmap for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate Change(2009)
Thirsty Chinese Cities Getting Drier As Skyscrapers Rise(2008)
Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas(2008)
True Cost of Coal in China (2008)
Food for thought: Climate change threatens China's food security (2008)
Greener Plants, Greyer Skies? A Report from the Front Lines of China's Energy Sector (2008)
Carbon Emissions Scenarios for China to 2100 (2008)
Who Owns China's Carbon Emissions? (2008)
Fact Sheets:
CEF ENERGY FACT SHEET (2005)
CEF RENEWABLE ENERGY FACT SHEET (2001)
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Temperatures Rising: Climate Change, Water and the Himalayas
Thursday, February 12 2009, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Isabel Hilton, chinadialogue; Kenneth Hewitt, Wilfrid Laurier University, Cold Regions Research Centre; Katherine Morton, The Australian National University
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Yours, Mine, Ours—China’s Carbon Emissions in an Interdependent World
Thursday, July 17 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Jim Watson, Sussex Energy Group;
Trevor Houser, Rhodium Group, LLC
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Coal City
Thursday, May 22 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Mingxu Zhang, Deputy Mayor, Huainan Municipal Government; Wei-Ping Pan, Western Kentucky University; Derek Vollmer, National Academy of Sciences
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Local-to-Local Energy Linkages: California and Alberta in China
Tuesday, May 20 2008, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Gary Mar, Embassy of Canada; Bo Shen, Natural Resources Defense Council; Dian M. Grueneich, California Public Utilities Commission
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Efforts in Moving Towards a Low Carbon Future: China's Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Laws
Wednesday, February 13 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Wang Mingyuan, Center for Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Law, Tsinghua University
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China Environment Forum
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: cef@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4233
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