clean energy race
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Are we in a solar trade war with China?
Concerns about China's support of domestic solar companies have been brewing for years. But they have finally come to a boiling point -- and it's causing some in the solar industry to feel burned.
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Industrialized countries are now losing the clean energy race
Developing countries now lead investment in clean energy -- representing about $72 billion in spending in 2010, versus $70 billion in rich countries.
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Congress Passes a Budget That Doesn't Invest Enought in International Efforts to Curb Global Warming
The long drama of whether or not the US Congress would invest in international efforts to curb global warming pollution or gut these investments is finally over – at least for the rest of this fiscal year. Last week President Obama signed into law a budget for the rest of this fiscal year (fiscal year […]
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Why climate change is now irrelevant to clean energy
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Arial} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline ; color: #1f0199} Clean energy isn’t about climate change any more, it’s about China. So says cleantech investor Alex Taussig. That’s his takeaway from last week’s summit of ARPA-E, the government agency tasked with funding energy innovations so crazy or with such far-off payouts […]
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Will US international climate funding be cut?
The Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee Hal Rogers (R-KY) just proposed significant cuts to US international funding. While the proposal he just released doesn’t spell out the exact cuts for different programs and categories of funding, we expect that the Majority Members of the committee will recommend cuts to US international climate funding. Such […]
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Sputnik moment: Historic meeting between U.S. and China may spur a clean energy race
In China, a race toward self-reliance and clean energy is certainly on, but the U.S. still needs to make some key changes if it wants to compete.
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Turning old industrial plants into clean energy economic zones in Shanghai, China
A group from the NRDC just visited Shanghai, China to discuss helping turn an old iron and steel alloy plant into a new clean energy development zone.
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China Clean Energy Development in Action: Seeing the Coda-Lishen Battery Plant in Person
While I was at the climate negotiations in Tianjin, China I had the chance to take a side trip to see clean energy development in action. A group of us went to the Coda-Lishen battery plant. After days of climate negotiations where countries talked about efforts to deploy clean energy and reduce global warming pollution, […]
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Stimulus driving clean energy innovation, manufacturing, markets — But what comes next?
With global competition mounting and Recovery Act momentum poised to fade, can the Obama Administration secure a lasting clean energy legacy?