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Migratory Labor for Extractive Industries Creating “Sons of Soil” Conflict in China
›In May 2011, two weeks before I was scheduled to start research in the region, a Mongol herder named Mergen was hit by a mining truck while protecting his pastureland in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia. He was dragged 140 feet and killed. His death sparked a month of protests.
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China’s Cap-and-Trade System a Crucial Weapon in “War on Pollution,” Says Jennifer Turner
›The announcement in Washington on September 24 that President Xi Jinping is committing China to a national carbon trading system is the latest step in an important partnership between the two biggest carbon emitters in the world.
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Tracking the Energy Titans: Hidden Trends in the United States, China, and Canada [Infographic]
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Despite Massive Conservation, Recycling, Imports, Shenzhen Faces Water Shortages
›Shenzhen sits in subtropical south China, where four-fifths of the country’s water resources flow. The monsoon brings heavy rains from April to September; at its peak, Shenzhen’s more than 7 million residents see pouring rain almost every day. So why is this city facing a serious water shortage?
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Obama’s Clean Power Plan Sets Up States to Become Energy Innovators
›August 5, 2015 // By Ruth Greenspan BellPresident Obama’s recently announced Clean Power Plan – potentially a major turning point in the fight to contain greenhouse gas emissions and stop the slide toward an ever-warming Earth – is oddly both a courageous step in the right direction and codification of a process already underway.
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In Search of Higher Returns: Can Extractive Industries Help Build Peace?
›August 3, 2015 // By Carley ChavaraIf you’re a government pondering the development of newly discovered natural resources, how do you avoid the so-called “resource curse” – the tendency of high value extractive resources, like oil, gas, or minerals, to, instead of prosperity, bring corruption, entrenched poverty, and even violence?
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Eric Larson and Sarthak Gupta, Climate Central
Shift from Coal to Gas Means Power Plants Are Using Less Water [Infographic]
›As the U.S. has undergone a rapid and massive shift to natural gas from coal, one benefit has gone almost entirely overlooked: the amount of water needed to cool the nation’s power plants has dropped substantially.
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A State Divided: A Snapshot of India’s Water-Energy Choke Point
›The landscape of the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya is rapidly changing. What was once a predominately agricultural economy has shifted to coal mining with significant consequences for people and the environment. “Once you extract coal from the land, it’s really hard to go back to an agricultural economy,” says ECSP’s Sean Peoples in an interview with Wilson Center NOW, about the Global Choke Point film, Broken Landscape.
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