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Environmental Film Festival: 'Beijing Besieged by Waste'

With a population of around 20 million and growing, Beijing’s residents produce unfathomable amounts of waste every day. Between 2008 and 2010, photographer and filmmaker Wang Jiuliang traveled to...

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Shale Gas Revolution in China: Game Changer for Coal?

In his opening remarks on the potential of a shale gas revolution in China, Xizhou Zhou, Director of IHS CERA (China) commented that “there is a lot of exuberance about how fast it can happen. Many...

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Balancing Act on the Mekong: Building Linkages for Sustainable Dam Development

“One of our intentions is to create new dialogues and discourse” around hydropower development in the Mekong Basin, explained Michael Victor, as he described his work with the CGIAR Challenge Program...

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The Devouring Dragon: How China’s Rise Threatens Our Natural World

While China’s rise is often viewed through its wide-ranging political and economic effects on the world, its growing impacts on the physical planet will leave a more permanent legacy. In his new book,...

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IN DENVER, COLORADO - Global Choke Point: Confronting Energy Demand and Water...

China’s soaring economy, fueled by an unyielding appetite for coal, is threatened by the country's steadily diminishing freshwater reserves. Next to agriculture, China's coal mining, processing,...

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The Green Revolution in China

In March 2006, 10,000 farmers surrounded the Deqin County government office in Sichuan Province to protest plans to build a dam on the Tiger Leaping Gorge—a dam that would inundate rich farmland and...

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The Thirsty Triangle: The Water Footprint of Energy Trade Between China,...

Every country depends on a sustainable supply of water and energy and these two resources are inextricably linked.  The production of all energy sources uses water but coal, oil sands, biofuels, and...

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Coal In China: Problems and the Future (in SAN FRANCISCO)

Coal has long been the main fuel source powering most of China. But are the health and environmental risks spinning out of control? For the past several years, Greenpeace activist Sun Qingwei has...

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Scaling Up: Chinese Renewable Energy Investments in the United States and Beyond

 Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center

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The Changing Contours of Civil Society in China: The Growth of Grassroots...

The recent Chinese leadership transition is a useful opportunity to re-evaluate the current state of Chinese civil society. Commentators have long debated whether the space for civil society is growing...

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From Sustainable Communities to Global Pollution Challenges: Twenty Years of...

Over the past two decades, Taiwan and the United States have made considerable progress on environmental protection, but both are still facing a broad spectrum of environmental challenges from...

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Cutting Edge Cases: Chinese Environmental Lawyers at the Forefront of Legal...

Chinese environmental law is a rapidly changing field as Chinese lawmakers strive to build a more effective governance institutions to address the country’s severe pollution and natural resource...

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Asia: Urban Spaces, the Local Environment and Global Sustainability

This event is co-sponsored with the USAID Alumni AssociationUrbanization and industrialization are significant trends closely associated with one another and, consequently, with the larger development...

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Growing Up and Going Out: The Development and Internationalization of Chinese...

In the last decade the number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in China has exploded, with these social organizations operating in an increasing number of areas. All the while, the political...

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IN BEIJING: Global Choke Point: Water-Energy-Food Confrontations in the...

NOTE: This meeting will be held in BeijingLOCATION: Room 127, Leo KoGuan Building, Peking University School of Government - Beijing, China

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IN BEIJING: Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable (BEER)

Co-Sponsored by: Beijing Energy NetworkTHIS EVENT IS IN BEIJING, CHINA

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How Many Light Bulbs Does it Take to Change China? — China’s Strategies for...

In 2007, the Chinese government answered the call by the Global Environment Facility to begin banning all inefficient light bulbs. According to a 2008 study by China’s Energy Research Institute, if...

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China’s Distant Water Fishing Industry

Cosponsored by China Environment Forum, Environmental Change and Security Program and Africa Program.Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center

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Moving Beyond Coal: Shifting China onto a Path Toward 100% Renewable...

2013 was a bad air year for China, bookended with “airpocalypses” that left Chinese cities blanketed in thick smog for weeks. Much of the fine particulates that created this smog came from coal plant...

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The Long Road to Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions in China: Partnerships for...

The rapid development of wind and solar energy in China has received a lot of well-deserved attention recently.  But that development has happened within the context of an even larger trend: China’s...

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