Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing • Stimson Center
Program Director Sally Yozell was called to testify before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
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Program Director Sally Yozell was called to testify before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
Renewables are booming in China - but so is coal. The CCP must invest in transmission and distribution if it is to meet its climate goals.
It is still possible to limit average global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius (2˚C) and avoid catastrophic climate change, but the remaining global carbon budget—the amount of carbon that can be safely released into the atmosphere if this limit is to be met—is rapidly diminishing.This was the verdict of the world’s top scientists who gathered in Paris last week to urge
Following China's pledge to end global coal financing there has been a collapse in energy funding, but no surge in support for renewables.
[Updated: March 6, 2015] Our friends at Foreign Policy hit the nail on the head by headlining writer Yiqin Fu's Monday story "China's National Conversation about Pollution Has Finally Begun." What happened? Well, in the last weekend of February, the feature-length Chinese documentary "Under the Dome" was released, first on the website of the state-run People's Daily newspaper,