Green Group That Wants to Ban Gas Stoves Counts Chinese Official as Top Adviser

Wang Yi, senior legislator, has asked China to keep an ‘active one-step ahead position’ in relation to climate change.

A top adviser to the Chinese government has been a high-ranking member of a green energy organization that works to ban gas stoves in America. He also advised his country on how to fight climate change.

Climate Imperative, an environmentally friendly nonprofit, has a budget of nearly $1 million thanks to funding from billionaires Laurene Pooh Jobs and John Doerr. Lists Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Wang Yi is a member of the advisory council. However, the group doesn’t disclose that Wang is also a member of its advisory council. Serves China’s legislative body is the National People’s Congress. Wang Even sits on According to a Chinese environmental group, the Congress’s Standing Committee. This committee is made up of government insiders who use state power to achieve Communist Party goals even when Congress is not in session.

Climate Imperative, with Wang as an advisor, has granted grants to the Building Decarbonization Coalition. This green non-profit is also a Green Nonprofit. Works To “transition to clean buildings that don’t run on gas.” Bruce Nilles (Climate Imperative executive director) was in December The following are some of the highlights His goal was to achieve “methane gas out of homes and buildings.” “It turns out that fossil fuels and humans don’t actually coexist very well,” Nilles said.

It is not clear how much Wang has had an influence on Climate Imperative’s efforts to get rid of natural gas. Climate Imperative did not respond to a request for comment. It says that its advisers provide. “independent, expert advice” Do not join the group. “endorse or approve specific grants.” Climate Imperative, however, isn’t the only green organization that partners with the Chinese. The Rocky Mountain Institute, a Colorado-based non-profit that published controversial December research indicating that 13 percent of U.S. children with asthma are attributable to gas stove use, has for years collaborated with China’s National Development and Reform Commission in order to implement an initiative. “economy-wide transformation” The alternative to oil and gas is the Washington Free Beacon reported In January.

Wang is a Climate Imperative advisor and also advises the Chinese government on the topic of climate change through the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, a CCP-approved organization. Provides “policy recommendations to the Chinese government on environment and development.” Wang, a member of CCICED council, in a September 2020 Policy Report Climate change also known as “highlight of Sino-U.S. relations” He argued that U.S. “efforts to combat climate change prevail,” China will lose its “active, one-step-ahead position in global climate governance.” Wang and coauthors concluded that China should pursue this goal. “strategic competition” United States and Canada on climate change “engage in dialogue and exchange with relevant U.S. entities.”

Wang is believed to be associated with the China Association for Promoting Democracy. This minor political party, which is controlled by the Communist Party, represents academics and holds seven positions on the National People’s Congress Standing Committee. A Chinese expert on China’s political system said that, despite its name the China Association for Promoting Democracy was still subject to the CCP’s control.

“They are subservient to the CCP,” The expert spoke in background to address the issue openly. Free Beacon. “The idea is that they create these spin-off groups that are designed to appear to be independent in some kind of way from the CCP, when they’re actually controlled and directed by the CCP.”

His status as a CCICED Member also shows Wang’s ties with the CCP. The council’s chair is First Vice Premier Han Zheng. He served as the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP, consisting of six top-ranking leaders under President Xi Jinping, from 2017 to 2022.

Climate Imperative was publicly launched in December 2021. It has an annual budget $180 million and will be funded for five years. Axios reported. Due to the new status of the group, it has not yet submitted tax forms to the Internal Revenue Service. It is therefore not known how much funding Powell Jobs and Doerr have provided. The “majority” However, the sizable group’s budget comes from two billionaires according to Robert Bryce is an energy reporter.

The White House has been responding to calls from green energy groups such Climate Imperative, Rocky Mountain Institute and others for a ban on gas stoves. These calls gained considerable momentum in the federal government after Richard Trumka Jr., Biden’s Consumer Product Safety Commissioner, became involved. Telled Bloomberg That “any option is on the table” When it comes to fighting the “hidden hazard” Gas stoves “Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”

While the White House I walked back These remarks were made amid intense public backlash. However, green energy groups continue to push forward with their campaign against natural gas. “More than 12 percent of U.S. childhood asthma is preventable,” Rocky Mountain Institute Tweet January “if we remove gas stoves from homes and move towards electric stoves instead.”