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  • Breaking Out of the Dome: Can Energy Efficiency Help Chinese Cities Conquer Air Pollution?

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    China Environment Forum  //  February 2, 2016  //  By Qinnan Zhou
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    In December 2015, Beijing issued its first-ever “red alert” for smog, its highest air pollution warning, which closed schools and restricted the number of cars on the road. Less than two weeks later, it issued its second.

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  • Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue

    Drought Pushes South Africa to Water, Energy, Food Reckoning

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    Choke Point  //  January 28, 2016  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Keith Schneider, appeared on Circle of Blue.

    January 7, 2016 could hardly have been worse in this thunderously beautiful, water-parched, and economically reeling nation of 55 million residents at the bottom of Africa.

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  • The Climate Community Turns to Pragmatism, Mostly

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    Wilson on COP-21  //  January 14, 2016  //  By Ruth Greenspan Bell
    COP-21-celebration

    “Wilson Perspectives: The Paris Climate Agreement” is a series of short essays exploring the key issues that emerged during the 21st Conference of Parties that originally appeared on WilsonCenter.org.

    The good news out of Paris is that the world is finally getting serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here are a few reasons to cheer and one quibble.

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  • Can the “World’s Largest Urban Area” Clean Up Its Act? Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  December 8, 2015  //  By Keith Schneider
    Streets of Shenzhen

    SHENZHEN, China – In 1980, the year Deng Xiaoping established Shenzhen as China’s first special economic zone, opening its mercantile sectors to market capitalism and free trade principles, an attractive, tree-shaded commercial district known as Dongmen was home to 30,000 residents near the center of a metropolitan region of 300,000.

    Thirty-five years later, Dongmen is a crowded commercial neighborhood of 300,000 residents at the edge of a metropolitan region of 18 million, China’s fourth largest.

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  • Will China’s New Air Law Solve its Pollution Crisis?

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    China Environment Forum  //  November 25, 2015  //  By Cai Jingjing & Joyce Tang
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    The recent news that China has been underreporting its already globe-leading coal consumption by nearly 20 percent for the last decade underscores the scale of its air pollution crisis.

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  • In Shenzhen, Tracking the Early Steps of China’s Carbon Pivot

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  November 18, 2015  //  By Keith Schneider
    Shenzhen

    SHENZHEN, China – To some extent, the contemporary industrial age is a global narrative of substance abuse and recovery.

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  • Zero-Emission Energy for 1.3 Billion People? Scaling Up Renewable Energy in the Developing World [Part One]

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 12, 2015  //  By Graham Norwood
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    The renewable energy sector has reached a critical inflection point where costs are competitive with fossil fuels and investment is ramping up in a big way, said more than a dozen experts at a day-long conference co-hosted by ECSP and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Global Climate Change on October 27.

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  • The Renewable Energy Era Has Already Started

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 5, 2015  //  By Mohamed T. El-Ashry
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    The world has entered a new energy era. Last year, for the first time in four decades, the global economy grew without an increase in CO2 emissions, according to the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century.

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