China’s Grey Revolution

China Environment ForumConvener, Information Clearinghouse, Matchmaker

Cooperative Competitors: Building New US-China Clean Energy Networks

Choke Point: China

Exploring the Water-Energy Nexus

Environmental & Energy Governance

Exploring China’s Grey Revolution (a.k.a the Environmental Movement)

Failure of Top-Down Pollution Control Policies: Sparks Laws and Other Efforts to Create Political Space for Citizens and NGOs

Expansion of Bottom-Up Eco-Warriors: Chinese NGOs, International NGOs, Journalists, Laobaixing, & Students (& GONGOs?)

Challenges Facing Chinese NGOs

Xiaoxing textile millSource: Edward Burtynsky

Source: china-sourcing-agent.com

Source: chesamelnewsblog.com

Source: pictobank.com

Source: businessinsider.com

Source: indiatransportportal.com

Source: cargocycling.com

Beijing’s Airpocalypse

Gansu Source: Associated Press

Rivers Run Red, Green, Denim Blue....

~35% Rivers GradeIV, V & V+

300+ Million Lack Access to Clean Water

Guanqiao LakeSource: themysteryworld.com

Jiangxi provinceSource: Associated Press

Guiyu E-wasteSource: thetechnologicalcitizen.com

Unseen Groundwater Contamination

Reuters/China Daiily.. (March 31, 2013) : If you Think China’s Air is Bad you Should see the Water, Business Insider.http://www.businessinsider.com/china-water-pollution-2013-3?op=1

Threats to Food Security

China’s Watergy Hunger

Greenpeace:http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5660-China-s-street-protests-won-t-change-failing-system

The True Cost of Coal

Mind the Gap Left By Weak Institutions

Top-Down Green Revolution

Ma Jun

IPE

Bottom-Up Pressures for Change

Promoting Transparency & Empowering the Public

•Two investigative reports •Nanjing-based Green Stone conducted investigation of nearby supplier •Apple met with groups in 2011 •Apple now conducting audits

IPE & Other NGOs Go After Apple

Liang CongjieSource: The Guardian

NGO CoalitionsUndercover Investigations/Tapping News Media

Empowering CommunitiesInformation Politics

Naming and ShamingSupply-Chain Analysis

Symbolic PoliticsPartnering with Businesses

“Taking a Walk” Public Interest Lawsuits

Harder Hitting Bottom-Up Strategies

Story of Two Rivers & Two Journalists

Dai Qing Photo Credit: http://www.ires.ubc.ca/2010/11/02/dai-qing/ Wang Yongchen Photo Credit: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841778_1841781_1841806,00.html

Shi Lihong and Xi ZhinongSource: www.facetofacemedia.ca

Yunnan Snub-nosed MonkeyBy Xi Zhinong

Liu JianqiangSource: cawa.fr

"As a journalist, my job should be focused on writing a good report. But half of my effort is spent on considering how to get a story past the censors and the likelihood of punishment.”

Tiger Leaping GorgeSource: international rivers

Information politicsSource: chinadigitaltimes.net

Symbolic politicsSource: Greenpeace

Phosphate mining in panda habitat, SichuanSource: Greenpeace

Industrial Water Pollution CampaignSource: Greenpeace

Greenpeace Detox campaignSource: vimeo.com

Greenpeace Detox campaignSource: Greenpeace

Greenpeace Detox campaignSource: cdn.greenprophet.com

Image from Greenpeace’s Poisoning the Pearl Report: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2009/12/poisoning-the-pearl.pdf

NRDC’s Clean By Design Initiative

Greenpeace China’sPoisoning the Pearl Report

Engaging Business

NGOs, INGOs, & GONGOs Trying Out Public Interest Law Angle

Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims

Wang Canfa, CLAPV

www.circlofblue.org/reignofsand

Reporting on Illegal Gold Mining in Liaoning Province

Mind the Gaps Most Chinese NGOs Small & Unregistered Competition from GONGOs (Some Help!) Government Pressure Funding Dependent on International Orgs

(BUT Domestic Funding Increasing) Many NGOs Led By Charismatic Leader—

Questions of Institutionalization Capacity Challenges

Source: New York Times/Associated Press

“Taking a Walk” Chengdu, 2008

“Taking a walk” Protest in Dalian, 2012

Source: BBC

Dalian PX protests Source: Reuters

Dalian PXSource: Associated Press

Source: globalvoicesonline.com

Incinerator Protest in Guangzhou, 2009

Source: Associated Press

Haining solar panel factor protests, 2011

Citizens Filling Waste Recycling Gap