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China Ministry of Ecology and Environment and Beijing Development and Reform Commission Co-Host National Low Carbon Day Event Series

Last week was an eventful week on China’s environmental front. On Wednesday, China celebrated its sixth annual National Low Carbon Day, a campaign created to boost awareness of energy efficiency and low-carbon development policies. As...

China Unveils its National ETS

With 2017 winding down, China announced the establishment of its national emissions trading scheme (ETS) on Tuesday, December 19th, in Beijing. China committed in 2015 to establishing a nationwide carbon trading system before the end...

Building the Capacity to Finance Green in China

Issue #3 — December 2017

Carbon Market Launch: Get It Right, Not Get It Fast

By Kate Li Since China announced that 2017 would be its launch year for the national carbon market, there has been mounting expectation for this ambitious plan of establishing potentially the world’s largest carbon market....

Issue #2 — October 2017

China’s New Carbon Market: A Spot But No Trades

By Deborah Lehr China’s ambitious plan to develop a nationwide carbon market is moving forward – but with a whimper, not a bang. The launch, now expected in late November, will cover just a small...

Paulson Institute Hosts China Carbon Market Roundtable

China's plans to launch a unified carbon market later this year will create the largest experiment to date in carbon trading. While the market will start on a small scale, with possibly as few as...

Issue #1 — August 2017