{"id":57,"date":"2012-07-16T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ugagreenway.wordpress.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2023-01-03T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:27:11","slug":"china-works-towards-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/2012\/07\/16\/china-works-towards-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"China Works Towards Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report released by the Worldwatch Institute, China is aiming to obtain 15% of its energy from renewables by 2020- And it is headed in the right direction. The financial investments are vast- &#8220;More than $50 billion was invested in renewable energy worldwide in 2006, and China is expected to invest over $10 billion in new renewables capacity in 2007.&#8221; To back this up are strong goals and policy leadership determined to make this positive change happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With its booming economy and rapidly expanding energy consumption\u2014particularly its use of coal and oil\u2014it is imperative for China to diversify its energy supplies.&#8221; National demand for electricity &#8220;doubled between 2000 and 2006&#8221; and China\u2019s economic development, environment, and public health have been severely affected: &#8220;for example, only 1 percent of urban Chinese breathe air that meets European air quality standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatch.org\/node\/5497\">Read more about China&#8217;s efforts<\/a> and share this news with your friends and\u00a0colleagues!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report released by the Worldwatch Institute, China is aiming to obtain 15% of its energy from renewables by 2020- And it is headed in the right direction. The financial investments are vast- &#8220;More than $50 billion was invested in renewable energy worldwide in 2006, and China is expected to invest over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[223,262,326,415,422,767,771,920,923],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","tag-china","tag-conservation","tag-energy","tag-goals","tag-green","tag-reduction","tag-renewables","tag-uga","tag-uga-greenway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/4663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}