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		<title>sustainable economic decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday the New York Times published a report,  China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants, which documented China&#8217;s transition to cleaner forms of energy. Although much of China&#8217;s energy needs are still met by inefficient coal-fired power stations with poor track records in terms of emissions, China has begun to invest heavily in cleaner coal technology with a view to improving efficiency and reducing emissions. The effect of this transition is already being taken into account by climate forecasters. China’s improvements are starting to have an effect on climate models. In its latest annual report last November, the I.E.A. cut its forecast of the annual increase in Chinese emissions of global warming gases, to 3 percent from 3.2 percent, in response to technological gains, particularly in the coal sector, even as the agency raised slightly its forecast for Chinese economic growth. “It’s definitely changing the baseline, and that’s being taken into account,” said Jonathan Sinton, a China specialist at the energy agency Buried innocuously in the middle of this report was the startlingly frank statement of Cao Peixi, president of the China Huaneng group, China&#8217;s largest state-owned electric company: “We shouldn’t look at this project from a purely financial perspective,” he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>is democracy good for sustainability?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m teaching a course in religion and the environment this term, and my students are preparing to debate this very question: is democracy good for sustainability? By way of background, they have been reading Judith Shapiro&#8217;s book Mao&#8217;s War Against Nature, which forcefully details the way that Maoist ideology trumped scientific reason in charting China&#8217;s development in the twentieth century, resulting in famine, population explosion, and environmental disaster. The question is, does this argument still hold today? In his recent International Herald Tribune op-ed about Pan Yue, vice-minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Daniel Gardner writes approvingly of China&#8217;s new-found faith in sustainability (props to John Liu at Yale University for sending me the link). Gardner says: &#8230; Chinese indifference to the environment is a myth. In the last few years China has begun to take aggressive action to bring its air and water pollution under control. Here are a few examples: China&#8217;s fuel-efficiency standard for cars is currently pegged at 43 miles per gallon, which means that when America&#8217;s 2020 standards of 35 mpg go into effect they&#8217;ll be lower than China&#8217;s minimum standard of today. Coal-fired plants must install or retrofit filtering devices in their smokestacks. Chief executives of companies found [...]]]></description>
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