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The Best Part Is What Shenzhen Didn’t Do

By Dorinda Elliott The most amazing thing about the Shenzhen International Low-Carbon City project, which won the second annual Paulson Institute and CCIEE Prize for Cities of the Future last week, is what the planners...

Hank Paulson: A Time of Leadership on Climate Change

By Henry M. Paulson, Jr. There’s an old adage that says if you’re not leading the change, you’re not actually leading. Indeed, these words rang true this week through many examples I saw where “leading...

Keeping Beijing’s skies ‘APEC blue’

By Dorinda Elliott This week’s US-China climate deal is an important step for US-China relations on a pivotal global issue. While there will be disagreements about the right targets and actions, the commitments made by...

In China, Energy Saving is All About the Buildings

By Daniel B. Poneman In matters relating to climate and energy, cooperation between the United States and China has been advancing in recent years. In many ways, our approaches and interests converge. Both countries have an...

Why Better Buildings in China Can Help Save the World

Buildings use more energy than any other sector in the world and account for nearly 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Because China are the global leaders in building construction, the country is uniquely...

Why $50 Melons Are a Big Idea in Nanhu

By Dorinda Elliott In the Chinese town of Nanhu on the outskirts of Jiaxing city, an important experiment is unfolding: the creation of a modern Chinese suburb. Until not long ago, this place was an...

Three Questions With: Nicholas Lardy

Nicholas Lardy, the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and author of the recent book "Markets Over Mao,” challenges the idea that “state capitalism” has been a successful model...

Houze Song Comments on China’s Economic Reforms

How to Fix Beijing’s Air

By CC Huang, Energy Innovation, LLC The Chinese leadership recognizes that a strong economy requires clean air: The costs of inaction are far too high. Today, more than 1.2 million Chinese die prematurely each year...

Fellow Damien Ma Comments on Planned Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank