Barbara Finamore
Alliance President / China Program Director, NRDC Beijing

China advanced hope for a global climate accord Thursday, saying it would enhance the information it makes available to other countries about its carbon emissions and submit that reporting to some form of international review.

This opens the door to a potential agreement that ensures transparency in a […]

Chaoyang city in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, has suffered one of the worst droughts in 60 years, hitting more than 2 million hectares of farmland and affecting 3 million people. “Because of the drought, my crop… all withered,” farmer Song Boulin says, “I have three others to feed in my family, and, except for cabbages, […]

Barbara Finamore
Alliance President / China Program Director, NRDC Beijing

Today, during President Obama’s first full day here in Beijing, he and President Hu Jintao announced a package of clean energy partnership initiatives between the United States and China that adds substance to the structure of the US-China MOU on climate, energy and environment announced last […]

U.S. experts on China, foreign policy and climate change meeting in New York on November 9, 2009 praised China’s strong effort in dealing with climate change.

“In China, we see continued effort by the government to increase the energy efficiency of its power plants, industries, buildings and equipment,” said Barbara Finamore, founder and director of the […]