The American Nonprofit With a Hand in China's Five-Year Plan

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March 4, 2016

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Media Highlight

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Fortune

"China has often adopted ideas from outside its borders. Carbon emissions targets based upon carbon per unit of GDP came from U.S. nonprofit Resources for the Future."

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