Part 147 (1/2)
352 it will invest almost $500 billion in clean energy
Esther Tanquintic-Misa, ”China Leads Global Investments in Renewable Energy,” IB Times, December 5, 2011, au.ibtimes.com/articles/261083/20111205/china-leads-global-investments-renewable-energy.htm#.UFJWkhg-KP0.
353 Chinese make use of ”feed-in tariffs”
Coco Liu, ”China Uses Feed-in Tariff to Build Domestic Solar Market,” ClimateWire, September 14, 2011.
354 subsidy plan that worked extremely well in Germany
Cristoph Stefes, ”Room for Debate-The German Solution: Feed in Tariffs,” New York Times, September 21, 2011.
355 renewable energy percentage targets on utilities
Pew Charitable Trusts, ”Global Clean Power: A $2.3 Trillion Opportunity-Appendix: China,” December 8, 2010, p. 48.
356 targets for the reduction of CO2 emissions per unit of economic growth
Bill McKibben, ”Can China Go Green?,” National Geographic, June 2011.
357 ”miracle will end soon, because the environment can no longer keep pace”
”The Chinese Miracle Will End Soon,” Der Spiegel, March 7, 2005.
358 factories and even blackouts in order to ensure that the goals were met
Jonathan Watts, ”China Resorts to Blackouts in Pursuit of Energy Efficiency,” Guardian, September 19, 2010.
359 central government has linked promotions
Alexandre Kossoy and Pierre Gioan, World Bank, ”State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2012,” May 2012, pp. 9699, siteresources.worldbank.org/INTCARBONFINANCE/Resources/State_and_Trends_2012_Web_Optimized_19035_Cvr&Txt_LR.pdf.
360 exports 95 percent of the solar panels it produces