GIVE Energy Advisor in China

Jim Hurd, GIVE Energy Advisor, just returned from meetings in Beijing and Shanghai and had this to say: "China's government has been starting, over the last year and a half, to make bold moves on cleantech scale-up, starting with large amounts of Chinese stimulus monies that went to cleantech."

He added, "Seeing the reduction of the Himalayan snow melt may have driven home to the Chinese leadership that the problem of carbon emissions could be hurting the country's long-term water supply, in addition to health problems caused for a population whose health care system is overtaxed to begin with. China has 20 percent of the world's people and three percent of the world's water -- and if that three percent is rapidly shrinking, it threatens water supply and the viability of their massive Three Gorges Dam over the long haul."