Carbon, Climate and Cooperation

 

2018:

• Jackson Hole News and Guide, "China's Ski Biz Might Get Local Help"

• Jackson Hole News and Guide, "Jackson, the Geneva of America"
   

2017:

• Wyoming Tribune Eagle, "Documentary the Age of Consequences to be screened at Atlas Theater"

 

2016:

• Inside Energy Special Report, "Looking Into Coal's Future"

• Jackson Hole News and Guide, "Nonprofit builds global relationships"

• Jackson Hole News and Guide, "Chinese to Jackson: Want to be our sister?"

• Jackson Hole News and Guide, "Delegation explores partnership in China"

 

2015:

• September speech by David Wendt in Shanxi, "Wyoming and Shanxi: A Clean Energy Partnership"

• Leigh Patterson, "China Aims to Clean Up Coal"

• Jackson Hole News and Guide, "Jackson Group Says 'Goals" Met in China"

• David Wendt, "Wyoming, China Face Common Coal Challenges"

• Todd Wilkinson, "Do Wyoming, China Share a Coal Destiny?"

• Todd Wilkinson, "Todd Wilkinson’s Interview with David Wendt of the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs on coal, climate change, Wyoming, China and Obama"

 

2014: 

• Dustin Bleizeffer, "Reasons differ, but Wyo and China agree on cutting C02 from coal"

• Michael Polhamus, "Wyoming delegates go to China to talk coal"

• Dustin Bleizeffer, "Wyoming lawmakers talk carbon cooperation in China Summit" 

 

2012 - 2009:

• Kelsy Dayton, "Author to glimpse inside Russian strongman Putin" 

• Todd Wilkinson, "The World Comes to Jackson Hole" 

• Brielle Schaeffer, "Resident to give talk at China conference" 

• Todd Wilkinson, "Will Wyoming Lead or be a Resource Colony?" 

• Todd Wilkinson, "On Earth Day, Remember JH's Special Place in World"

 

2009:

JHCGA Hosts Jincheng Delegation (U.S.-China Initiative Tab)

 

As part of its coalmine methane project in China, JHCGA invited the chief energy correspondent of the Casper Star-Tribune, Dustin Bleizeffer, to participate in the 2009 Sino-U.S. New Energy Sci-Tech Forum and Conference on Coalmine Recovery and Utilization, held in February 2009 in Jincheng, China. The Star-Tribune is Wyoming's largest newspaper.

 

Upon Mr. Bleizeffer's return from Jincheng, the Star-Tribune featured Mr. Bleizeffer's articles in three consecutive days of front page coverage. The Star-Tribune also published a full-page editorial, endorsing Wyoming-China cooperation on cleaner coal and JHCGA's leadership in promoting such cooperation. Links to the articles and editorial (last link) follow.

 

• March 21, 2009: "Carbon, climate and cooperation"

• March 21, 2009: "Assignment: China"

• March 22, 2009: "Methane's menace"

• March 22, 2009: "Mine safety drives methane efforts"

• March 23, 2009: "Getting down to business"

• March 23, 2009: "Methane efforts could qualify for carbon credits"

• March 23, 2009: "Wyoming, China linked by coal opportunities"

 

2007:

As part of JHCGA's work in fostering global partnerships, JHCGA organized an 18 member Goodwill Mission from Wyoming that visited China's Shanxi province in October 2007. Led by Mark Barron, former mayor of Jackson, and Gene Bryan, chair of the Wyoming Tourism and Travel Board, the group visited Wutai Mountain, China's holiest Buddhist mountain site, and other cultural sites throughout the province. They met with provincial leaders to explore a sister city relationship between Jackson and Wutai Mountain and explored other common interests in cultural exchange, the promotion of tourism, and cultural and historical preservation.

 

• October 24, 2007: "Delegation to China eyes sister-city status"

• October 31, 2007: "Wide-eyed in China"

• November 7, 2007: "Taking care of business"
  
  Memorandum of Understanding between the Town of Jackson, the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs, Shanxi Provincial Tourism Administration, Mt. Wutai Administrative Bureau, Xinzhou District and the Taiyuan Vocational Institute of Tourism.  The website www.chinawyomingpartners.com, was created to document this relationship.

 

2006:

In September, national environmental journalist Todd Wilkinson, accompanied a delegation of officials from the U.S. and JHCGA to attend the U.S.-China Clean Coal Forum in the Chinese city of Taiyuan, located in the province of Shanxi. Sitting in on meetings with Chinese government officials in Beijing, the following are his thoughts: 

 

• Column 1: "Jackson is finding role on world stage"

• Column 2: "Can cowboy diplomats build new bridge to China?"

• Column 3: "What is political tipping point with climate policy?"

• Column 4: "Capturing CO2 must be part of any plan for coal"

• Column 5: "A better future: We must try to get there from here"