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Building Your Dreams on the Pacific Coast Highway
03 Jun 2010
by Binu Parthan (REEEP Deputy Director General) - Category: REEEP
I had the chance to visit two interesting companies last week in Shenzhen, a new metropolis in the Pearl River delta region of China which is a hub of economic activity in China. Shenzhen used to be a fishing village in the 70s, before it was turned into a Special Economic Zone and is located [...]
Talking about the Pew study about “who’s winning the race” it appears China really has taken the lead now, even by global perception. G-20 states have more than doubled their investment in the past 5 years, 90% of clean energy finance came from G-20 members. In China, such investments totaled $34.6 billion, while in the [...]
For the past 20 years, the clean energy sector has continuously grown. Due to the worldwide recession investments have declined about 6.6% in 2009 (163 billion $). The Pew Charitable Trusts has released its report “WHO’S WINNING THE CLEAN ENERGY RACE? Growth, Competition and Opportunity in the World’s Largest Economies” on Thursday, and it predicts [...]
The place to spot the trends that will shape the future: world fairs. The next major event will be held in China, is themed “Better City, Better Life” – The Shanghai World Expo 2010 – and will run from May till October.
Launch of the China Low Carbon Platform
05 Feb 2010
by Frauke Urban, Climate Change and Development Centre, IDS - Category: Contributed News
The China Low Carbon Platform (CLCP) has been launched this week. CLCP is a new knowledge-sharing platform for low carbon energy and low carbon development for China. The aim of CLCP is to disseminate and share information in Chinese and English on low carbon energy systems and low carbon development strategies that reduce poverty and [...]
A positive aspect of the Copenhagen summit was the general agreement on the necessity of fighting united against climate change. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria called the Copenhagen Accord a hard-fought political agreement, even if it was far from perfect. Most countries are expected to sign it, and the focus is on Mexico to establish a [...]
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