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China prepares sweeping energy legislation

JUN 18, 2010
Physics Today
New York Times : As Keith Bradsher of the the New York Times reports, Chinese officials are close to finishing a three-year effort to draft a comprehensive new energy law. China’s principal concern appears to be securing access to enough energy to maintain its economic growth. Mitigating climate change is secondary, even though East Asia is by some measures the world’s most vulnerable region to climate change.
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