
Financial Times: China is Building Faster Than it Can Teach its People to Go Green
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of the Financial Times quotes JUCCCE Chairperson Peggy Liu in his article on air pollution in Wuhan.
I was prepared for smog when I landed in Wuhan, the industrial heartland city dubbed the Detroit of China, but I hadn’t expected it inside the airport terminal. Of the 199 cities tracked by my iPad’s air-quality app, Wuhan ranks as the most polluted by some way. On a day when the readings for Beijing and Shanghai are 112 (“lightly polluted”) and 152

Ensia: A Path Forward for International Climate Talks
Peggy Liu writes for independent magazine Ensia in the lead up to the Paris climate talks on the drastic changes needed for the talks to result in a breakthrough. “Time and again the scientific urgency for global action on climate change is stifled by chaotic U.N. climate talks as politics and process prevents the world’s policy makers from coming up with a clear plan for 2020 to divide up the global effort of reducing greenhouse emissions. Looking ahead to the 2015 talks in

Die Welt: China's Struggle for More Green Electricity
Nina Trentmann from Germany’s national newspaper Die Welt consults JUCCCE Chairperson Peggy Liu on China’s struggle to move away from coal. German „Es gibt im Moment viel Unsicherheit“, sagt Peggy Liu, die Vorsitzende der Joint US China Collaboration on Clean Energy, einer Nichtregierungsorganisation mit Sitz in Shanghai, die sich für mehr Erneuerbare Energien in China einsetzt. „China ist wie ein Teenager: Man braucht viel Energie, um zu wachsen und weiß nicht, wann man ausg

Slate: Can China be Green?
Slate’s Daniel Gross talks to Peggy Liu about whether China can develop a low-carbon economy. Here’s an idea. What if China could evolve quickly from the world’s environmental problem to the world’s provider of environmental solutions? This isn’t a Slate pitch. (Actually, it is, since I’m doing a column about it.) But it’s also a reasoned, slickly argued narrative I heard from Peggy Liu, a Silicon Valley veteran turned social entrepreneur, in her apartment/office in Shanghai

Smartplanet: Can the World’s Most Polluting Country be an Ecotourism Pioneer?
Smartplanet’s Gabrielle Jaffe consults Peggy Liu on the prospects of ecotourism in China. Try to picture an eco-paradise. As the world's biggest polluter, China probably isn't the first destination that springs to mind. And yet in recent years this famously gray, smog-cloaked country has become a laboratory for green travel. While the number of such operators is small, both businesses and the government have begun making a concerted effort to power lodges with solar panels, i

JUCCCE’s Peggy Liu Talks to This Week in Energy About China’s Clean Green Revolution Dream
This Week in Energy podcast has a fascinating discussion with Peggy Liu of JUCCCE on sustainability in China, story telling as an organization tool and Obama's carbon rule. Listen at: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-energy-twie/e/twie-144-jucccen-chinas-clean-green-revolution-dream-34369213 #Press #ThisWeekinEnergy #Sustainability #ChinaDream #CleanGreenRevolution #Podcast


L'Officiel Magazine: Woman Who Can Change the World
Peggy Liu and her work at JUCCCE are profiled in the Chinese version of major French magazine l’Officiel. #Press #LOfficiel #Magazine #ChangetheWorld #WomenEmpowerment