Month: August 2021

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China and African nations push for new global fund to secure biodiversity accord

31/08/2021 CEN_net 0

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 ecosystems at a two-part U.N. summit due to culminate in May next year in the […]

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White Man’s Media: vilification of China and ‘colonisation of the mind’

31/08/2021 CEN_net 0

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 world.  Legacy media in the US and the UK has the same dominance . It […]

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Ocean surface climates may disappear by 2100: study

30/08/2021 CEN_net 0

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 mineral aragonite, which many marine animals use to form bones and shell, support the vast […]

History of mathematics is being revised to be fair to Han contributions

30/08/2021 CEN_net 0

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 in processes developed thousands of years ago by Chinese scholars. Numeracy has always remained high […]

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Tibetan antelopes no longer on ‘endangered’ list

28/08/2021 CEN_net 0

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 less than 75,000 in the 1980s to around 300,000 today. Despite the good news, the […]

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Carbon trading scheme may reduce China’s emissions by 30 to 60%

28/08/2021 CEN_net 0

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 and financial institutions representing more than US$26 trillion in assets under management, and global asset […]

China is transforming the world

27/08/2021 CEN_net 0

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 for Green development and ecological civilisation. This not an accident. Nor is it an accident that […]

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China’s energy storage industry on fast track thanks to policy stimulus

26/08/2021 CEN_net 0

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 hydro, however electrochemical battery storage is an area of rapid development. In late July 2021, […]