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China’s Grey Revolution

China’s Grey Revolution. China Environment Forum Convener, Information Clearinghouse, Matchmaker Cooperative Competitors: Building New US-China Clean Energy Networks Choke Point: China Exploring the Water-Energy Nexus Environmental & Energy Governance.

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China’s Grey Revolution

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  1. China’s Grey Revolution

  2. China Environment ForumConvener, Information Clearinghouse, MatchmakerCooperative Competitors: Building New US-China Clean Energy Networks Choke Point: ChinaExploring the Water-Energy Nexus Environmental & Energy Governance

  3. 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

  4. Xiaoxing textile millSource: Edward Burtynsky

  5. Source: china-sourcing-agent.com

  6. Source: chesamelnewsblog.com

  7. Source: pictobank.com

  8. Source: businessinsider.com

  9. Source: indiatransportportal.com

  10. Beijing’s Airpocalypse Source: cargocycling.com

  11. Gansu Source: Associated Press

  12. Rivers Run Red, Green, Denim Blue.... ~35% Rivers Grade IV, V & V+ 300+ Million Lack Access to Clean Water

  13. Guanqiao LakeSource: themysteryworld.com

  14. Jiangxi provinceSource: Associated Press

  15. Unseen Groundwater Contamination Guiyu E-wasteSource: thetechnologicalcitizen.com

  16. Threats to Food Security 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

  17. China’s Watergy Hunger

  18. The True Cost of Coal Greenpeace:http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5660-China-s-street-protests-won-t-change-failing-system

  19. Mind the Gap Left By Weak Institutions

  20. Top-Down Green Revolution

  21. Bottom-Up Pressures for Change Ma Jun IPE

  22. Promoting Transparency & Empowering the Public

  23. IPE & Other NGOs Go After Apple • Two investigative reports • Nanjing-based Green Stone conducted investigation of nearby supplier • Apple met with groups in 2011 • Apple now conducting audits

  24. Liang CongjieSource: The Guardian

  25. Harder Hitting Bottom-Up Strategies NGO Coalitions Undercover Investigations/Tapping News Media Empowering Communities Information Politics Naming and Shaming Supply-Chain Analysis Symbolic Politics Partnering with Businesses “Taking a Walk” Public Interest Lawsuits

  26. 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

  27. Shi Lihong and Xi ZhinongSource: www.facetofacemedia.ca

  28. Yunnan Snub-nosed MonkeyBy Xi Zhinong

  29. 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.”

  30. Tiger Leaping GorgeSource: international rivers

  31. Information politicsSource: chinadigitaltimes.net

  32. Symbolic politicsSource: Greenpeace

  33. Phosphate mining in panda habitat, SichuanSource: Greenpeace

  34. Industrial Water Pollution CampaignSource: Greenpeace

  35. Greenpeace Detox campaignSource: vimeo.com

  36. Greenpeace Detox campaignSource: Greenpeace

  37. Greenpeace Detox campaignSource: cdn.greenprophet.com

  38. Engaging Business Greenpeace China’s Poisoning the Pearl Report NRDC’s Clean By Design Initiative Image from Greenpeace’s Poisoning the Pearl Report: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2009/12/poisoning-the-pearl.pdf

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

  40. Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims Wang Canfa, CLAPV www.circlofblue.org/reignofsand

  41. Reporting on Illegal Gold Mining in Liaoning Province

  42. 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

  43. “Taking a Walk” Chengdu, 2008 Source: New York Times/Associated Press

  44. “Taking a walk” Protest in Dalian, 2012 Source: BBC

  45. Dalian PX protests Source: Reuters

  46. Dalian PXSource: Associated Press

  47. Incinerator Protest in Guangzhou, 2009 Source: globalvoicesonline.com

  48. Haining solar panel factor protests, 2011 Source: Associated Press

  49. Citizens Filling Waste Recycling Gap

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