If you like me you are wondering sometimes what it would cost China to clean its air, here is the answer, and it is quite astounding. To a Chinese official, it would cost a mere 5 trillion yuan, or around $820 billion ( around 600 billion euros). For the capital city of Beijing alone, it …
The People’s Republic of China is in the middle of a very serious situation as it is struggling with horrendous air pollution which in the Northern provinces cut life expectancy by over five years. To avoid this from worsening even more, the local government has been investing heavily in the past and will invest more …
I originally wanted to write a post only on how the People’s Republic of China is willing to quadruple its solar PV capacity by 2015. But given other news from there got my attention, I thought it would be better to present them all. First thing first : the Chinese government is not messing around …
According to the White House website : “ the United States and China will work together and with other countries to use the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons “ Now that’s some good news are HFCs are very potent greenhouse gases. As Bloomberg noted …
We have seen time and again that the People’s Republic is doing a lot to fight against climate change. Energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear, even a carbon tax, no option is left unused and this is good news. Meanwhile, we have seen that the country is more than plagued by pollutions and environmental problems of all …
I have already noted quite a few times in the past month that grid parity is slowly but surely approaching. What if it were already the case ? To the Applied Materials blog and REneweconomy it is already here in over a hundred countries. Yes, solar photovoltaic installed on rooftops is now cheaper than electricity …
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I wrote a few months ago that vehicles are getting more and more efficient as efforts are being made in the USA, China and Europe. In the conclusion I was noting that it was good news but that more had to be done in biking among others. It seems to be the case as Courrier …
Over the past few days and weeks, so many horrifying news have been making the headlines on China that I thought a recap would be needed. As an introduction you might read my post on the airpocalypse in Beijing. All the news I will develop today clearly allow us to understand why the country is …
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A year ago I was relating how China, the largest greenhouse gases emitter, was willing to tax carbon by 2015. It seems the local government is pretty serious about it as last week’s news show. To the Clean Revolution : ” China’s Finance Ministry has announced a new set of green taxation policies, including a …
A look at the increase of global wind energy capacity in 2012
