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Secretaries of Commerce and Energy to Lead Clean Energy Trade Mission to China

Geoffrey Henderson U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz recently announced plans for a Business Development Mission to China in April, intended to promote U.S....

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Daniel Kammen on Implementing the U.S.-China Climate Accord

Geoffrey Henderson ChinaFAQs expert Dan Kammen describes the implications of the U.S.-China climate accord for the international climate negotiations and for each country. Kammen emphasizes the...

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Making Plans: Steps in Development of China's Crucial 13th Five Year Plan

Geoffrey Henderson ChinaFAQs expert Angel Hsu and her team at Yale’s Environmental Performance Measurement program have developed an interactive timeline that lays out the steps China is expected to...

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U.S.-China Accord Includes Important Steps on Non-Fossil Energy

Lin Jiang The U.S.-China joint announcement on climate change is an historic milestone to limit carbon pollution. This agreement between the world’s two top economies, which together emit nearly 45...

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Coal Limits and Possible Early Carbon Peak Previewed by China Climate and...

Geoffrey Henderson Professor Qi Ye, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, commented at London-based think tank IPPR on his expectations for China’s upcoming 13th Five Year Plan,...

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Reports from China Suggest Low-Carbon Shift in 2014

Geoffrey Henderson Drawing on preliminary energy demand data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics, Bloomberg New Energy Finance has estimated that China’s carbon dioxide emissions fell by 2...

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Looking Toward Nuclear Expansion, China Works with U.S. on Safety*

Jane Nakano For many years, Chinese regulators have learned about nuclear safety from working with the United States, but nuclear safety cooperation is becoming increasingly a two-way street. Nuclear...

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US-China climate cooperation could be model for more bilateral deals

Sarah Forbes and Joanna Lewis This op-ed originally appeared on The Hill’s Congress Blog:When U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping jointly announced major targets to combat...

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The G-2, The Paris Climate Deal, and the Need for Additional Cycles of Action

Angel Hsu and Andrew Moffat Given last November’s historic joint climate announcement, much anticipation has been focused on the contributions of the United States and China towards December’s Paris...

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Momentum For Paris Agreement Builds from U.S.-China Climate Change Pledges

Paul Joffe and Geoffrey Henderson With the U.S. release of its proposal for the international climate negotiations and proposals expected soon from other countries, the negotiations are intensifying....

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Strategic and Economic Dialogue announces climate progress, ChinaFAQs and...

Geoffrey Henderson At this week’s U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington, D.C., the two countries built on their robust cooperation on climate change and clean energy. The U.S. and...

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China Announces Next Steps in Shift to Low-Carbon Path

Paul Joffe and Geoffrey Henderson As China unveiled its contribution (“INDC”) to the international climate negotiations, affirming the pledges it made in its joint announcement with the U.S. in...

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Stronger Commitments from China and US Are Breakthrough for International...

Paul Joffe and Geoffrey Henderson With the current climate negotiations reaching a conclusion in Paris this coming December, we are at a pivotal moment in the global effort to address climate change...

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China Is Raising Its Climate Ambition, Experts Say

Geoffrey Henderson This post originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog:China is increasing its ambition in addressing climate change, and it has a strong national interest in sustaining its actions....

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Steel production, air pollution, and electricity prices

Geoffrey Henderson China’s top steel-producing city—Tangshan, Hebei province—is undergoing campaigns to reduce smog through stringent pollution standards and to tackle overcapacity, which entail...

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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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