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The Paulson Institute Newsletter – April 2015

How A Carbon Tax Can Be Good For the Economy

The prevailing view on carbon taxes is that they are damaging to economic growth. But in Can Carbon Taxes be Good for China and the United States?, the latest Paulson Paper on Energy and Environment,...

Climate Change and Air Quality News: April 20, 2015

Our Beijing-based Climate Change & Air Quality Program team share what they are reading and talking about China's new Environmental Protection Law took effect on January 1, and we can already see results of China’s...

Climate Change and Air Quality News: April 10, 2015

Our Beijing-based Climate Change & Air Quality Program team share what they are reading and talking about China’s central government is moving quickly to introduce market principles into the power sector and maximize the amount...

Four must-reads on China’s power sector reform

By Anders Hove Embed from Getty Images Earlier this week, China released a long-anticipated draft of power sector reform plans (“Deepening Reform of the Power Sector”). Though the plan is not finalized, it will likely...

Fixing China’s Air from the Heart of Hebei

By Elle Carberry The Paulson Institute recently visited Hebei Province to learn first-hand about the region’s challenges and possible solutions to China’s severe pollution problems. The Institute’s Climate Change and Air Pollution Program is researching policies...

China’s New Great Wall

Is China’s rapidly expanding “new Great Wall”—a string of seawalls built to enable development—threatening the economic and environmental prosperity of the country’s coastal region? Yes, to the tune of $31 billion in losses each year,...

5 Things to Know: China’s Elusive Shale Gas Boom

China is home to the largest technically recoverable shale gas reserves in the world. But bringing that gas to market will not be easy, according to a new Paulson Institute publication by Zhongmin Wang, a...

5 Things to Know: Inclusionary Housing in China

China’s home ownership jumped to 70 percent in 2010 from just 20 percent in 1980, thanks to rapid urban growth. But China’s lower class has been largely excluded from this housing boom, forced out by...

The Paulson Institute Newsletter – March 2015