Month: May 2021 - Page 2 - China Environment News .Net

Climate-smart framework needed to counter food and energy insecurity for Global South.

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Countries most affected by climate change bear the least responsibility. The 17 members of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) generate around 80 percent of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. That means they have the power to pull the brakes on the climate emergency. The 17 major economies participating in the MEF are: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the EU, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the […]

Revitalising Rural China

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In September 2015, China’s President Xi Jinping attended the UN Sustainable Development Summit and joined other world leaders to adopt Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. China attaches great importance to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and has released China’s National Plan on Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and a 2019 Progress Report. Implementation of the agenda has been integrated […]

Ecological Civilization: China’s counter to “Sustainable Development”?

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China’s concept of ecological civilisation is meant to counter the Western view of sustainable development and assert its intellectual and political leadership on environmental issues. Over the last three decades, Chinese intellectuals, government officials, party stalwarts and state leaders have toyed with the concept of ‘ecological civilisation’ (EC) to frame their environmental ideology and management of environmental problems. Domestically, EC has provoked discussion among Chinese intellectuals on its implications for […]

Ecological Civilisation: A Challenge to Liberal Environmentalism?

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Adjunct Professor Berthold Kuhn looks at the specific features of the concept and analyses from the perspectives of national policy making and international cooperation. The West, and environmental liberals more broadly, would benefit from a better understanding of and engagement with China’s experience of environmental policy making. He advocates paper increasing international engagement with China on environmental discourses and policy making. Some consider the concept, with historically charged references to […]

Ecological Civilisation – China’s “Eight Principles”

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The concept of ecological civilisation serves as a guide for China’s fast-track endeavour to tackle the challenges facing its environment and ecosystems, respond to the public’s aspirations for a pleasant and eco-friendly living environment and promote sustainable development in a balanced manner. It lends an ideological impetus to China’s active involvement in global ecological and environmental governance to become an important player, contributor and leader in the global endeavour to […]

Ecological Civilisation – China’s “Eight Principles”

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Published 2021/05/27 The concept of ecological civilisation serves as a guide for China’s fast-track endeavour to tackle the challenges facing its environment and ecosystems, respond to the public’s aspirations for a pleasant and eco-friendly living environment and promote sustainable development in a balanced manner. It lends an ideological impetus to China’s active involvement in global ecological and environmental governance to become an important player, contributor and leader in the global […]

Once-dwindling freshwater lake on grassland regains vitality

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After a decade of ecological treatment, birds chirping, grass growing and water splashing, the wetlands around Hulun Lake in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have experienced improved biodiversity. Human activities and soil erosion had been blamed for a drastic fall on the water table of the lake since 2000. The lake’s water storage decreased to about 4.5 billion cubic meters in 2010 from its previous average of 12 billion […]

Steel industry embraces green shift for China’s carbon-cutting commitment

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BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) — Forging ahead toward a greener future, China is ever more committed to transforming the steel industry into a low carbon-emitting one amid its long-term green pledges. As China has promised to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, the steel industry remains the largest emitter among all manufacturing sectors in China, accounting for about 15 percent of the annual domestic […]

China continues major action to cut ozone depleting chemicals

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Published 2021/05/26 President Xi Jinping said that China has decided to accept the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer on 16 April 2021. The announcement came as part of Xi’s conversation with Chancellor Merkel of Germany and President Macron of France. It is seen as a major global climate win that should also lend a boost of confidence to broader climate talks heating […]

The Eco-socialist Roots of Ecological Civilisation

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Published 2021/05/26 The notion of ecological civilization has become central to Chinese efforts to confront and deal with environmental problems. Here, Professor Arran Gare argues that the notion of ecological civilization “establishes a tradition of socialist thought that now has the potential to challenge and replace global capitalism.” However, ecological civilization is characterized by its proponents in different ways. Some see it as simply an adjunct to the existing system […]