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Uprising

Uprising

Sigourney Weaver speaks with Barbara Finamore the Asia Director and Senior Attorney at the Natural Resrouces Defence Council and engineer C.T. Wan the managin director of the Hongkong Electric Company about coal consumption in China and their transition toward renewable energy.

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4 - 12+

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