Fiscal implications of global decarbonization
Internationally coordinated climate mitigation policies can effectively put the world on a path toward achieving the agreed Paris temperature goals. Such coordination could be initiated by large players,
China
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Need for consensus on reforms
In an interview to a foreign financial daily, Finance Minister P Chidambaram recently observed that India needs to "catch up with China" in terms of economic growth to remain at the high growth trajectory. However, this requires greater political consensus, which unfortunately is lacking, but vital to realize our full economic potential. Unfortunately, after a decade-and-a-half of economic reforms, political consensus on these has been elusive, unlike China, which had consensus from day one.
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Virus alert in China
Five years after battling an epidemic of the deadly SARS virus, China's Health Ministry issued a nationwide alert on Saturday following the outbreak of another virus that has already killed 22 children in one city and is showing signs of spreading. The virus in question is a form of foot and mouth disease called Enterovirus 71, or EV-71. More than 3,300 cases were reported by Thursday night, the most recent numbers available. Apart from the 22 deaths among children in Fuyang in Anhui province, 978 people are currently hospitalised with it, according to the Health Ministry.
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China warms to emissions goals
China is expected to express support for Japan's sector-by-sector approach to setting goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Friday. The announcement, to be made in a joint statement on environmental issues Tokyo and Beijing are working on, is likely to follow the bilateral summit Wednesday between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in Tokyo.
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Virus Kills 22 Children in Eastern China
A fast-spreading viral outbreak in China has killed 22 children, sickened nearly 3,600 others and caused panic among parents in an impoverished corner of Anhui Province, government health officials said Friday. All of the fatalities, from lung problems and other complications, have been in children younger than 6, with a majority of them under 2.
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The energy to be serious
It is great to see that we Americans finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead the United States, it takes your breath away.
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A lot to be angry about
Polluted, poisonous and immune to popular efforts to enforce a clean-up: Tai Lake is a metaphor for the state of China's politics The plain-clothes police are always there, watching Xu Jiehua. When she goes out, two of them follow by motorcycle. Sometimes an unmarked car joins them, tailing her closely on the narrow road winding past the factories and wheat fields around her village.
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China investigates forced child labor
China said Wednesday that it had broken up a child labor ring that provided children from poor, inland areas with work in booming coastal cities, acknowledging that severe labor abuses extended into the heart of its export economy.
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Sino-Indian trade at Nathu La postponed
The annual Sino-India border trade at Nathu La, which was to be reopened today, has been postponed following the Commerce Ministry's communique to the Sikkim government, official sources said here. "We have received a fax message from the Union Commerce Ministry late last evening informing about the postponement of the reopening of the border trade at Nathu La,' the District Collector (East) Vishal Chauhan told PTI here. The reopening of annual trade at Nathu La may take place on May 19, he said.
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China wary of importing food inflation
Beijing, Apr 30 A Chinese saying sums up Beijing's efforts to immunise itself from global price shocks: a half-closed door will not shut out everything.
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China's sloping land conversion program: Institutional innovation or business as usual?
China's Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) is the largest land retirement/reforestation program in the developing world, having the goal of converting 14.67 million hectares of cropland to forests by 2010 (4.4 million of which is on land with slopes greater than 25