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Circle of Blue and the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will give an absorbing presentation on the energy-water choke points that are tightening around the world’s two largest economies. Please RSVP for May 6, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Though coal-to-liquids has been suspended due to water scarcity, the process uses 50 percent less water per unit of end product compared with coal-to-chemicals processes which have been given the go-ahead in hopes of slowing petroleum imports.
Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum present at 17 events in 4 cities over 16 days.
Ma Jun tells Circle of Blue that China is still on the track of a highly energy- and resource-intensive model, with the need to de-couple economic growth from the expansion of resource consumption
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A look at China’s coal-rich, yet water-scarce northern region.
Images from northern China, where a proposed pipeline could be the answer to a resource mismatch of coal wealth and water poverty.
Disputed project seen as a must for modernization.
Water-rich region, though, is getting dryer.
Will momentum for runaway development be too powerful to restrain?
A breakdown of previous plans gives context to the newly released 12th Five-Year Plan.
Clearly wary about the consequences of its rapid economic development on the environment, China has set a path over the next five years to reduce consumption of the two most important resources that power its economy— coal and water. The country plans to rein in water use and introduces new energy intensity reduction targets in pursuit of more sustainable economic growth, according to the draft proposal of the 12th Five-Year Plan, the master economic blueprint that will chart China’s development through 2015.
