China Climate Resources
 
NGO Resources

ChinaDialogue

This bilingual blog includes news and analysis on global environmental issues with a special focus on China. It is maintained by an international editorial advisory board based in London, Beijing, and San Francisco.
 
This website contains information about NRDC’s work with Chinese government agencies, research institutes, lawyers, environmental groups, energy companies and multinational corporations to help China confront environment and climate change issues.
 
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change’s webpage on Chinese climate change issues includes publications and other useful links. 
 
Government Resources
 
Links to a variety of materials on China and climate change complied by EPA Office of General Counsel.
 
This website is the official government platform for climate change information in China. It is maintained by the National Leading Committee on Climate Change, which is led by Premier Wen Jiabao and includes twenty-four members from ministries and government sectors.
This website, maintained by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, contains China's environmental policies, laws, and regulations, including activities and developments relating to climate change.
This website is maintained by the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission's Energy Bureau and contains China's energy laws and regulations. The Energy Bureau is tasked, among other things, with the administrative management of China's oil, gas, coal, and electric power industry; guidance of local energy development and construction; management of national petroleum reserves; and management of foreign energy cooperation and coordination. The site is currently Chinese language only; an English version is under construction. 
 
Publications

Steve Wolfson, Gathering Momentum for U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change, Tsinghua University Law Journal (July 2009)
 
World Resources Institute
Natural Resources Defense Council

From Crisis to Opportunity: How China is addressing climate change and positioning itself to be a leader in clean energy
Natural Resources Defense Council
 
 
 
Kenneth G. Lieberthal & David B. Sandalow, Foreign Policy Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change, Brookings Institute (January 2009).
 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, An Interdisciplinary MIT Study. The Future of Coal (2007).
 
Craig Hart et al., East Asia Clean Development Mechanism: Engaging East Asian Countries in Sustainable Development and Climate Regulation Through the CDM, 20 Geo Int’ Envtl. L. Rev. 645 (2008).
 
Tseming Yang, The Implementation Challenge of Mitigating China’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 20 Geo. Int’l Envtl. L. Rev. 681 (2008).
 
Patricia Ross McCubbin, China and Climate Change: Domestic Environmental Needs, Differentiated International Responsibilities, and Rule of Law Weaknesses, 3 Envt’l & Energy L. & Pol’y J. 200 (2008).
 
Wang, T. and J. Watson, China's Energy Transition - Pathways to Low Carbon Development, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; Sussex Energy Group, the University of Sussex (2009).
 
China’s National Climate Change Programme, Prepared under the Auspices of National Development and Reform Commission, People’s Republic of China (2007).
 
Li Junfeng et al., China Wind Power Report, China Environmental Science Press (2007).
 
Justin Blood, Energy Production Pollution in China-The Effectiveness of Two Forms of Chinese Governmental Response to the Problem, 19 Colo. J. Int’l Envtl. L. & Pol’y 155 (2008).
 
Nathan Borgford-Parnell, China’s Renewable Energy Law: Not Enough to Overcome China’s Energy and Environmental Problems, 8 Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol’y 45 (2008).
 
Wang Mingyuan, Issues Related to the Implementation of China’s Energy Law: Analysis of the Energy Conservation Law and the Renewable Energy Law as Examples, 8 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 225 (2007).
 
Roger K. Raufer, The New Power Generation: Environmental Law and Electricity Innovation: Colloquium Article: Sustainable Urban Energy Systems in China, 15 N.Y.U. Envtl. L. J. 161 (2007).
 
William L. Andreen, Institute for International Law and Public Policy: 2004 U.S.-China Environmental Law and Policy Roundtable: Commentary on Government Incentives to Promote Renewable Energy in the United States by Professor Wang Mingyuan, 24 Temp. J. Sci. Tech. & Envtl. L. 351 (2005).