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What Hu Jintao’s Washington Visit Can Do For Climate Change / Daniel FirgerClimate Law Blog, 14/01/2011http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2011/01/14/what-hu-jintaos-washington-visit-can-do-for-climate-change/It’s not yet February and the biggest climate change story of the   year may already be written. The story is simple enough–as the U.S.   drags its heels on clean energy, China marches ahead.China’s leaders may be concerned less by global warming itself than   by the economic consequences of suffocating air pollution in its major   cities, but they are nonetheless launching dozens of new clean energy projects this year in the electricity   generation, transportation, and manufacturing sectors. The country’s   twelfth Five Year Plan, to be formally adopted in March, sets out   ambitious benchmarks for increasing renewable energy and efficiency while reducing   greenhouse gas emissions through the mass deployment of wind turbines,   solar panels and other green technologies. Responding to these signals,   Chinese and foreign companies alike are rushing to stake their claims  in  what a recent report by Ernst &#38; Young called the world’s most attractive market for renewable energy...