Barbara Finamore is a Senior Attorney and Asia Senior Strategic Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She has over three decades of experience in environmental law and energy policy, with a focus on China for twenty-five years. In 1996, she founded NRDC's China Program, the first clean energy program to be launched by an international NGO.
"A hugely informative and readable book about how much China is
doing - and needs to do - to spur the clean energy revolution that
is a crucial element in the fight against climate change. I highly
recommend it."
-Todd Stern, Former Special Envoy for Climate Change under
President Obama
"Finamore has written an impressively well-researched and
truly fascinating account of China's fitful odyssey to climate
consciousness. In an otherwise pretty bleak global tableau, this
progress offers some welcome grounds for hope."
-Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on US-China
Relations, Asia Society
"A must-read."
-Make Wealth History
"Barbara Finamore has written a highly readable and
informative overview of China's role in the global climate change
battle. Will China Save the Planet? is a good primer for
environmental policy analysts and anyone else interested in
studying feasible solutions to climate change, humanity's greatest
threat."
-Eurasia Review
"If you want to read one book on China's energy and
environmental transformation, Finamore's lucid volume is the
one."
-Asian Review of Books
"Authoritative and comprehensive."
-The South China Morning Post
"Finamore is the right person to write such a concise and
informative book. . . . She takes a balanced approach-being an
outsider but drawing on her firsthand knowledge and experience of
an insider, thus making the narrative and analysis concrete and
convincing."
-China Review International
"For all its importance, it is quite hard to follow
environmental developments in China. One the most useful resources
I've come across is Barbara Finamore's book Will China Save the
Planet?"
-The Earthbound Report
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