Reports from U.S. Embassy Beijing ESTH Section
Environment
General
·
Update on
China’s South-North Water Transfer Project June
2003
·
Environmental
Protection Along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway April
2003
·
Managing The Upper Reaches Of The
Yellow River April 2003
·
Defending
China's "Water Tower:" Environmental Protection in Qinghai Province
April 2003
·
Chinese NGO’s—Carving
a Niche Within Constraints January 2003
·
China
Pursues Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism January
2003
·
China
Tackles Rural Electrification December 2002
·
China's Immense
Fisheries December 2002
·
China’s Ocean
Ecology Gets Mixed Report Card
December 2002
·
Lake Tai: China's
3rd Largest Lake Fights to Survive September 2002
·
Western China
Grasslands in Trouble July 2002
·
Clearing
Muddy Waters: China Centralizing Water Management Authority July 2002
·
Environmental
Conditions in Tibet March 2002
·
China
and its Donors Prepare for Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism January 2002
·
New Railway
to Lhasa Raises Environmental Concerns December 2001
·
Embassy
Presentation at Symposium on Environmental Protection and International
Cooperation in China (MS PowerPoint in English and Chinese) October 2001
·
China’s
Year 2000 "State Of The Environment" Report June 2001
·
9th Five-Year
Plan Environmental Report Card March 2001
·
The
Cost of Environmental Degradation in China December 2000
·
Environmental
Objectives and Investment Requirements for China's 10th Five-Year Plan November
2000
·
Hebei: China's
Environment In A Nutshell November 2000
·
Curbing
Chinese Pollution: A Tale Of Two Cities June 2000
·
Benxi To
Experiment With Emissions Trading June 2000
·
China's Top
Worries: Lagging Political Reform, Corruption, Environment May 2000
·
The Environment
at the 2000 NPC Plenary March 2000
·
China, Japan and
Korea Hold Second Tripartite Environmental Ministerial March 2000
·
PRC Planners'
New Energy Strategy: Oil Not Coal February 2000
·
China State EPA
Head Discusses Environmental Challenges and Priorities October 1999
·
U.S. EPA
Administrator Carol Browner Meets Chinese NGOs April 1999
·
China GLOBE
Environmental Education Program January 1999
·
China's Electric
Vehicle Test Facility January 1999
·
China's
Electric/Hybrid Vehicle and Alternative Fuel Vehicle Programs July
1998
·
The Fading of
Chinese Environmental Secrecy March 1998
·
The Environment
Enters the Chinese Criminal Code May 1997
·
Environmental NGOs in
China: Green is Good But Don't Openly Oppose the Party December 1997
·
PRC State Council
Calls for Environmental Education and Activism December 1996
Water
Quality
·
Update on
China’s South-North Water Transfer Project June
2003
·
Managing The Upper Reaches Of The Yellow River April
2003
·
China Dams the Yangtze
November 2002
·
Lake Tai: China's
3rd Largest Lake Fights to Survive September 2002
·
Clearing
Muddy Waters: China Centralizing Water Management Authority July 2002
·
Soil and Water
Center is Latest Milestone in U.S.-China Agro-Environment Cooperation
June 2002
·
Environmental
Protection in an Average Chinese Province -- Controlling Water Pollution in
Anhui June 2002
·
Environmental
Protection in China's Wealthiest City: Shanghai Water Quality July 2001
·
Issues
Surrounding China's South-North Water Transfer Project April 2001
·
Embassy
Presentation at South -to-North Water Transfer Workshop April 2001
·
Dianchi:
Anatomy of a Polluted Chinese Lake April 2000
·
After
the Floods: Water Control: Water Control on the Yangtze November 1999
·
Competition
on the Pacific Ocean: Problems in Maritime Strategy for Modern China: PRC
Environmental, Maritime Security Examined in New BookJanuary 1999
·
Yangtze
Floods and the Environment Aujust 1998
·
PRC
Water: Waste A Lot, Have Not -- The Problem Is Policy, Not TechnologyNovember 1997
Air Quality
Converting the PRC
Air Pollution Index to Micrograms/cu-m
Beijing Environmental
Protection Bureau Beijing air quality reports. The Chinese version plots
the location of air quality monitoring stations.
·
China's
Emissions Trading Pilot Projects
May 2003
· Light at the
End of the Smokestake? China’s SO2 Emissions Reduction Policies May 2003
· The Controversy
Over China’s Reported Falling Energy Use August 2001
· Beijing
Clean Air Campaign Enters Third Year November 2000
· Beijing Air
Quality Improves October 2000
· Going After the
Big Polluters: The Shenyang Smelter August 2000
· Curbing
Chinese Pollution: A Tale Of Two Cities June 2000
· Benxi To
Experiment With Emissions Trading June 2000
· China Revises
Its Air Pollution Law June 2000
· China's
Clean Air Price Tag: USD 40 Billion May 2000
· Beijing Gets
Serious About Air Quality October 1999
· PRC Air Pollution:
How Bad is It? June 1998
· The Fading of Chinese
Environmental Secrecy March 1998
· Severe Beijing Air
Pollution Information Emerges February 1998
Energy
· China
Tackles Rural Electrification December 2002
· The
Controversy Over China’s Reported Falling Energy Use August 2001
· PRC Planners'
New Energy Strategy: Oil Not Coal February 2000
· Nan'ao Island
Revisited: South China Wind Power Success Story January 1999
· Hot Water For
China: A PRC Solar Water Heater Company January 1998
· Renewable Energy
in China: Snapshots of Three Projects Already Underway December 1997
· Climate Change:
PRC, Japan, U.S. Tech Transfer and GHG Mitigation NGO Seminar November 1997
· PRC Rural Energy
Conservation, Supply and Demand 1996 - 2000 July 1997
· U.S. - China
Energy Efficiency Progress June 1997
· Wind Farms and
Rural Electrification in Inner Mongolia May 1996
· Solar Energy in
Western China: Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet May 1996
Wildlife and Natural
Resources Conservation
·
China
Combats Overfishing and Illegal Fishing February
2003
· China's Immense
Fisheries December 2002
· China’s
Ocean Ecology Gets Mixed Report Card December 2002
· Laotian
Elephants Come into Chinese Reserves March 2002
· Bear Bile
Farming February 2002
· Panda Primer:
The Facts in Black And White December 2001
· Cooperation
Important to Protecting Pandas(from U.S. Consulate General Chengdu) February 2001
· Microcredit
Transformed Farmers and Conservation Park in China's Guizhou Province November 2000
· Forests
Vs. People? PRC Natural Forest Protection August 2000
· PRC Farmers as
Stakeholders in Conservation: Conservation and Development at the Cao Hai
Nature Preserve
· Saving the Snub
Nosed Monkey: Student Environmental Action in China November 1996
· Gold Mining in
China: Taming the Wild West May 1996
China's
Environmental NGOs
China Development Brief on private and official development projects in China
·
Chinese Red
Cross Growing in Strength and Sophistication April
2003
· Chinese
NGO’s—Carving a Niche Within Constraints January
2003
· ABA-CEEC
Environmental Governance Project Has Successful First Year October
2002
· Information
on Chinese Environmental NGO’s Participating in Embassy-Sponsored
Environmental NGO Fair on September 19, 2001 (in Chinese and English)
· Embassy Sponsors
Environmental NGO Fair and Capacity Building Workshop October 2001
· Sichuan Students
Organize to Protect the Environment (from U.S. Consulate General Chengdu)October 2001
· Birth of an
NGO? Development of Grassroots Organizations in the Land of Big Brother March 2000
· Chinese
Environmentalist Liang Congjie On NGO Life March 2000
· Environmental NGOs
in China Part I: Green China Foundation Summer 1999 series
· PRC Environmental
NGOs II: The China Population And Environmental Society
· PRC NGOs III: China
Association for Chemical Pollution Prevention and Control
· PRC NGOs IV: China
Association of Urban Environmental Sanitation
· PRC Environmental
NGOs Part V: China Energy Research Society
· PRC Environmental
NGOs Part VI: The Green Earth Volunteers
· PRC Environmental
NGOs Part VII: College Environmental Groups
· Environmental NGOs in
China: Green is Good But Don't Openly Oppose the Party
The Environment in China's Provinces
·
Defending
China's "Water Tower:" Environmental Protection in Qinghai ProvinceApril 2003
·
U.S.
Relief Funds Assist Xinjiang Earthquake Victims April
2003
·
Xinjiang
Flood Victims Receive U.S. Relief Funds June 2002
· Environmental
Protection in an Average Chinese Province -- Controlling Water Pollution in
Anhui June 2002
· Environmental
Conditions in Tibet March 2002
· Tianjin Gunning
For Olympics "Green" December 2001
· Yunnan
Parks Have Trouble Balancing Priorities July 2001
· Environmental
Protection in China's Wealthiest City: Shanghai Water Quality July 2001
· If Shanxi Can Do It
(Clean Up), Anybody Can June 2001
· Grapes of
Wrath in Inner Mongolia May 2001
· Yunnan
Strives to Protect China’s Headwaters(from U.S. Consulate General Chengdu)January 2001
· Guangdong
Environment: Some Progress, But Many Problems Remain (from U.S. Consulate
General Guangzhou) December 2000
· Fighting
Pollution in Sichuan: Mixed Results (from U.S. Consulate General Chengdu) December 2000
· Hebei: China's
Environment In A Nutshell November 2000
· Environmental
Protection Efforts in Wuhan November 1999
· Greener Than
Green: Xiamen, A Model of Environmental Achievement January 1999
· Xiamen - PRC
Showcase City January 1999
· Quanzhou, Fujian
-- A Traveler's Tale January 1999
· Pollution Comes to
Paradise: Environmental Protection in Hainan August 1998
· Shandong Province
Environmental Protection Briefing July 1998
Climate Change
· China Pursues Kyoto
Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism January
2003
· China and its
Donors Prepare for Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism January 2002
· Climate Change:
PRC, Japan, U.S. Tech Transfer and GHG Mitigation NGO SeminarNovember 1997
· Climate Change:
PRC Officials Comment at GHG Mitigation and Tech Transfer NGO SeminarDecember 1997
· Global Warming
Pluses and Minuses: A Chinese Perspective October 1997
Desertification
· China
Adopts Law to Control Desertification November 2001
· Highlights
of PRC Desertification Law November 2001
· PRC Desertification:
Inner Mongolian Range Wars and the Ningxia Population Boom April 1998
· PRC
Desertification: Mud Rain Rarer Now May 1998 | 
