August 2021
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China and African nations push for new global fund to secure biodiversity accord
China and African nations are pushing for the establishment of a multi-billion-dollar “global biodiversity fund” to help developing countries meet goals agreed in the UN Convention on Biodiversity being negotiated to protect nature, U.N. officials and observers said. About 195 countries are expected to finalise a new accord to safeguard the planet’s plants, animals and Continue reading
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White Man’s Media: vilification of China and ‘colonisation of the mind’
Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the Australian media. That colonial media mind set in turn promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’. By John Menadue, the publisher of Pearls & Irritations. The US Department of Defence maintains, in its own words ‘full spectrum dominance’ throughout the Continue reading
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Ocean surface climates may disappear by 2100: study
Up to 95 percent of Earth’s ocean surface will have changed by the end of the century – oceans will be hotter, more acidic and less hospitable to life unless humanity reins in its carbon emissions, according to research published Thursday. Ocean surface climates, defined by surface water temperature, acidity and the concentration of the Continue reading
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History of mathematics is being revised to be fair to Han contributions
It’s becoming increasingly clear that many key developments in the history of mathematics were made in China, centuries or millennia before they were found by Europeans. The puzzle over how China suddenly became a global leader in Artificial Intelligence has a simple, widely overlooked answer: mathematics. AI and other Big Data handling techniques are rooted Continue reading
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US per capita CO2 emissions are 3 times those of China
USA and Saudi Arabia have highest rate of pollution in the world Continue reading
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Tibetan antelopes no longer on ‘endangered’ list
The status of Tibetan antelopes in China has been downgraded from “endangered” to “near threatened” amid the country’s active anti-poaching and biodiversity protection efforts, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration has announced. Thanks to efforts made to protect the animal over the past 40 years, the number of Tibetan antelopes (or Chiru) has risen from Continue reading
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Carbon trading scheme may reduce China’s emissions by 30 to 60%
China’s national emissions trading scheme (ETS) could play an important role in the country’s carbon-neutrality drive by potentially reducing carbon emissions by 30 per cent to 60 per cent of current levels by 2060, according to a report released on Tuesday. The report is by the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC), a network of asset owners Continue reading
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China is transforming the world
CHALLENGING THE US “RULES-BASED ORDER” Published 2021/08/26 The following article from the Monthly Review elaborates on how Chinese socialism is challenging the US-controlled “rules-based order”, and how in the process is transforming the world as we know it. In the global battle for ecological survival and equity, China has increasingly emerged as the international leader Continue reading
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China’s energy storage industry on fast track thanks to policy stimulus
China’s efforts to move electricity generation from a coal-dominated system to a mix of renewables is not only focusing on increased utilisation of wind, solar and other technologies but is also seeking to rapidly expand energy storage options. There are a range of energy storage technologies, including molten salt solar powered heat exchange and pumped Continue reading
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Wildlife seeking new homes amid urbanization and climate change
Shanghai residents recently spotted a bunch of curious dog-like animals hanging around their neighborhoods. The experts confirmed them as raccoon dogs, or “貉” (hé) in Chinese. Most Chinese have heard of the animal from the phrase “一丘之貉” (yī qiū zhī hé), which could be literally translated to “raccoon dogs of the same hill,” meaning “birds Continue reading
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China’s plan for the marine environment
In 2017, the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party set the goal of creating a “Beautiful China” by 2035. Important to this is a special five-year plan (FYP) for the marine environment. There have been marine FYPs before, for fishing and the ocean economy, but this will be the first one dedicated to Continue reading
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China’s land use: 103 million hectares of farmland protected by “red line”
“The central government has attached great importance to the protection of farmland and we will implement the strictest policies to prevent farmland from being illegally used for other purposes” China’s Ministry of Natural Resources has released details of dozens of typical land-use supervision cases last year, underlining its firm resolve to protect the country’s farmland Continue reading
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China’s new energy vehicle industry turbocharged by low-carbon drive
“China 65,000 electric vehicle charging stations, 644 power swap stations, and 1.87 million charging piles had been built nationwide, covering 176 cities and more than 50,000 km of highways.” “Not only has China’s interim goal of 5 million EVs been met, but the country has cultivated the world’s largest plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market. In Continue reading
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China’s first global carbon flux dataset produced through CO2 monitoring satellite
Chinese scientists recently created the country’s first global carbon flux dataset based on data collected by the country’s first carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring satellite TanSat. The achievement means that China is capable of conducting the quantitative spatial monitoring of the global carbon budget and helping take an inventory of the carbon budgets around the world. Continue reading
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Major global environmental treaties US won’t ratify
Most of the world’s countries support these global agreements on conservation and pollution. China has ratified each of them. But the United States of America refuses to ratify (i.e. commit to) these international protocols. In one of his first acts after taking power US, President Biden signed an executive order to have the United States rejoin Continue reading
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Questions continue to grow over US’ early infection data in Florida and 2019 vaping patients: possible cases before Wuhan
Digging for truth Florida, a new COVID-19 epicenter in the US where the seven-day average cases rose to a record of more than 19,000 in August, is causing public concern due to its serious epidemic situation and the lack of transparency about its early cases – especially in the case of 171 early patients’ data Continue reading
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CHINA’S NEW GUIDELINES ON ‘GREEN DEVELOPMENT’ – WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
A recent (July 2021) joint document by China’s Ministry of Ecology & Environment and the Ministry of Commerce promises to bring environmental considerations much deeper into China’s overseas project planning The “Green development guidelines for overseas investment and cooperation”, issued jointly by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), Continue reading
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China crackdown stops illegal production of ozone-destroying chemicals.
Two recent research reports published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature confirm that atmospheric concentrations of the ozone-depleting chemical CFC-11 had once again dropped significantly. By late 2019, levels were falling by about 1% a year — the fastest on record, according to the reports — showing that the world was back on track to repairing the damage Continue reading
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Scientists confirm the 1987 global ban on ozone depleting chemicals saved the planet
And prevented a 50% rise in Greenhouse Gas levels If it weren’t for a global ban of ozone-destroying chemicals in the late 1980s, the ravages of climate change would have become far worse by the 2040s than is currently projected, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature. Fortunately, because of international action under Continue reading
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Is Natural Selection culling far right Americans?
Large numbers anti-science rednecks choose death, serious long-term illness, and for males, impotence from Covid. Ironically, this could be seen as reinforcing the veracity of Darwinian natural selection. The death rate from COVID-19 in the U.S. is rising. The seven-day average of new cases has increased by nearly 70% to almost 30,000 per day; hospitalizations Continue reading
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TWICE BANNED BY FACEBOOK, 21 SILK RD HAS MOVED TO ITS NEW HOME ON VK. COM
The 21SilkRd group on Facebook was launched in 2016 with a twofold aim. One was to cover the biggest, most important development project in history: the China-inspired Belt & Road Initiative to link the EurAsian landmass. The second was to rebut the false and mistaken narratives about China that routinely flood the Western media. It Continue reading
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The Third Pole – China’s melting glacier
The Third Pole is a region in Central Asia with the world’s third-largest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland that is roughly the size of the US states of Texas and New Mexico combined. Third Pole glaciers are one of the world’s largest freshwater sources, and vital to billions of people from Vietnam to Continue reading
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First-ever rain recorded on the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet
It has just rained at the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history, in yet another worrying milestone in our ecological unravelling. Like much of the Northern Hemisphere, Greenland’s been experiencing a massive heatwave with temperatures at the glacier’s summit rising above freezing for the third time in less than a decade. On 14 Continue reading
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21 Silk Rd 2.0 group shut down again by Facebook oligarchs
Our sister group 21 Silk Rd 2.0 has been closed down by the US regime’s oligarchs at Facebook. The Facebook Gestapo, on the behest of the “Democratic” wing of the US regime, is intensifying attacks on anti-imperialist and pro-China groups like ours (including suspending Admins etc). WE ENCOURAGE ALL MEMBERS OF OUR GROUP TO KEEP Continue reading
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West’s cumulative emissions of CO2 are 5 times those of China
A fact’s a fact … Cumulative CO2 emissions by Western countries are 5 times those of China China’s cumulative CO2 emissions = 220 billion tonnes (13% of world total cumulative emissions) West’s cumulative CO2 emissions = 1148 billion tonnes (70% of world total cumulative emissions) United States cumulative CO2 emissions = 400 billion tonnes (25% of world Continue reading
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The West produces double the CO2 of China per capita
A fact’s a fact … The West per capita produces double the CO2 of China Each Chinese citizen produces 6.86 tonnes of CO2 per year. Each citizen in the Western industrialized countries produces 12.1 tonnes per year on average. Canada, USA, & Australia are the worst at 15.59 t; 16.16 t; 16.88 t each ** The West Continue reading
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China, Russia guide new Afghan government’s diplomacy
Beijing and Moscow are working to rehabilitate the Taliban and smooth international acceptance of the new Afghan Government By PEPE ESCOBAR, August 19, 2021 The first Taliban press conference after last weekend’s Saigon moment geopolitical earthquake, conducted by spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, was in itself a game-changer. The contrast could not be starker with those rambling pressers at Continue reading
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Nearly 500 Yangtze finless porpoises recorded in China’s Poyang lake
NANCHANG, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — Nearly 500 Yangtze finless porpoises have been detected in Poyang Lake in east China’s Jiangxi Province, according to the results of a recent survey released by the provincial forestry department. The endangered species, known as the “giant panda of the water,” is a barometer of the ecological environment in the Continue reading
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The Earth System, the Anthropocene and global tipping points
“Treating ‘humans’ as a single, monolithic whole, ignores the fact that the Great Acceleration has, until very recently, been almost entirely been driven by a small fraction of the human population, those in developed countries.” “The most striking insight is that most of the population growth has been in the non-OECD world but the world’s Continue reading
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China is taking a significant step in tackling climate change
On August 9, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report. It emphasizes that without “immediate, rapid, and large-scale” reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, it will be impossible to contain global warming and avoid frequent and severe climate events in the coming decades. Many laments the enormous costs of achieving zero carbon Continue reading
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Digital farming takes hold in China
Modern Agriculture Platform (MAP) MAP Centers are a network and platform to guide and supply farmers through the process of modernizing their farms sustainably and connecting them to premium buyers – increasing the quality of their crops and their profitability. A key part is MAP beSide: A program that helps farmers grow very high quality, Continue reading
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Blue Hydrogen isn’t green energy: study
Manufacturing blue hydrogen emits 20 percent more carbon than burning natural gas or coal for heat Hydrogen – considered a clean source of energy – could lead to higher greenhouse gas emissions than coal, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell and Stanford Universities. The study examined the greenhouse-gas emissions generated by the Continue reading
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World’s largest solar powered green hydrogen plant begins operation in China
Operation of the world’s largest solar powered hydrogen plant began on 20 April 2021 in China. The project, owned by Baofeng Energy Group, uses a 200-MW solar power plant located in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to electrolyze water to make “green” hydrogen, which replaces coal. In May 2020 Chinese coal miner Baofeng Energy Continue reading
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A healthy eco-environment enhances social well-being: China white paper
China issued on Thursday 12 August 2021, a broad-ranging white paper titled Moderate Prosperity in All Respects:Another Milestone Achieved in China’s Human Rights. Part 8 of the white paper dealt with China’s environmental improvements. According to the white paper: The air has become cleaner. China’s CO2 emissions per 10,000 yuan of GDP in 2020 fell Continue reading
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