I was very happy to see Calvin Quek letter on the apparent contradiction between China's carbon neutrality goal and tidal wave of new coal power construction published on the Financial Times. As I only managed to comment on it after he sent it in, I thought I'd share my additional comments

Letter: China’s net zero strategy has conflicting goals ft.com/content/4bd7af… via @ft
Thanks to Huw Slater Max Dupuy Li Shuo_ASPI and Lauri Myllyvirta for their comments

Happy Earth Day from the Emmett Institute!

Here's some quick facts provided by Emmett faculty and staff to inform you this earth day.
#EarthDay2024 #environment

foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/11/ame…

'But most importantly, perhaps, China’s example shows the importance of assuring that industrial policy encourages competition.'

No biggie. Just Hillary Clinton tweeting our 'Trump vs Biden' analysis to her....

31m followers.

Carbon Brief

A terrific round-up of thoughts from Evan George and the rest of our Emmett colleagues

China power generating capacity additions in Jan-Mar 2024:
solar 45.7 GW (vs 33.7 GW in 2023)
wind 15.5 GW (10.4)
thermal 6.4 GW (8.1)
hydro 1.8 GW (2.7)
nuclear 0 GW (1.2)

Last year, almost 300 GW wind&solar was added and now the first months are up 40%!

What a great day at UCLA Law!

We learned a lot from several of China’s most prominent environmental advocates at our UCLA symposium yesterday. Thanks to all who joined especially MA Jun, ZHANG Jingjing, REN Peng, and ZHAO Zhong, who is an Emmett Institute Distinguished Fellow, and our Alex Wang

Great talk about progress on China’s environmental and supply chain data disclosure by Ma Jun. wwwen.ipe.org.cn/@UCLALawEmmett workshop on China’s environmental law and governance.

Yep

“It’s ironic, really,” Ilaria Mazzocco tells the The Atlantic. “Our efforts to cut China out from every part of the supply chain might actually be what prevents us from competing with their EVs.”

Some hope for LAX yet washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/04…

China responsible for 95% of new coal power construction in 2023, report says | Molly Lempriere Global Energy Monitor

Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3JgakQq

Join us for this on Friday, 4/19 at UCLA Law for a talk with Ma Jun, Zhang Jingjing and other leading Chinese environmentalists. I'll be moderating. At 12:15pm. Will be a terrific conversation.

Oh no, there's gonna be a bunch of dirt-cheap clean-energy technology! businessinsider.com/china-economy-…

Troubling nytimes.com/2024/04/01/bus…