December 2021
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China building Cuba’s largest wind farm – country moves towards renewable energy
La Herradura Wind Farm Project is the largest wind power project in Cuba, supplied and constructed by Chinese firms. This investment forms part of Cuba’s goal of sourcing 24% of its total energy supply from renewables by 2030. Herradura 1 will supply 51 MW, Herradura 2 supplying a further 50 MW. Herrandura 1 is being Continue reading
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China’s progress towards building “zero-waste cities”
China has seen significant progress in promoting pilot projects that transform urban areas into “zero-waste cities” under the Chinese government’s green development plan to minimize solid waste generation and maximize waste recycling in urban areas. A pilot city in the “zero-waste city” project, Shenzhen in south China’s Guangdong Province has actively explored a new path Continue reading
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China’s urban development experience helpful for Nicaraguan capital, Managua – mayor says
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 30, 2021 — China’s experience in urban development could help improve Managua’s urban planning and enrich local authorities’ knowledge, said Reyna Rueda, mayor of the capital city of Nicaragua. In a recent interview with Xinhua, the mayor said she looks forward to the opportunities in urban development cooperation with Chinese cities following Continue reading
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China puts pioneering ‘pebble bed’ nuclear reactor into operation
The state-run China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced on December 20, 2021 that at the Shidaowan Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Shandong province of east China, the world’s first High Temperature gas cooled Reactor of Pebble bed Module (HTR-PM) is now connected to the grid. It is the first fourth generation (GEN IV) NPP of High Temperature Gas cooled Reactor (HTGR) connected to the Continue reading
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China puts pioneering ‘pebble bed’ nuclear reactor into operation
Published 2021/12/31 Photo: Shidaowan Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Shandong province of east China – high-temperature gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant demonstration project The state-run China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced on December 20, 2021 that at the Shidaowan Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Shandong province of east China, the world’s first High Temperature gas cooled Reactor Continue reading
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Green belts and connected parks planned for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City
Singapore and China have agreed to deepen cooperation to make the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City greener and more sustainable, said Singapore’s Ministry of National Development (MND) on Wednesday (Dec 29, 2021). National Development Minister Desmond Lee announced during the 13th Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Joint Steering Council Meeting on Wednesday that the National Parks Board of Singapore (NParks) and the Tianjin Eco-City Continue reading
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Green Development: Singapore and China sign bilateral cooperation agreements
Singapore and China reached 14 deals at Wednesday’s (Dec 29) Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation meeting, the biggest haul in recent years from this high-level platform set up in 2004. Among them are these agreements: Urban governance Singapore’s Ministry of National Development (MND) and China’s state planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, signed a Continue reading
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Green Development: Singapore & China bilateral cooperation agreements
Published 2021/12/30 Singapore and China reached 14 deals at Wednesday’s (Dec 29, 2021) Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation meeting, the biggest haul in recent years from this high-level platform set up in 2004. Among them are these agreements: URBAN GOVERNANCE Singapore’s Ministry of National Development (MND) and China’s state planner, the National Development and Reform Continue reading
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Cuba eyes cooperation with China on clean energy
Facing the challenges of an aging energy infrastructure, Cuba is looking to new energy sources with help from the Belt and Road Initiative to strengthen its power production capacity and move away from fossil fuels. The Latin American country joined the Belt and Road Energy Partnership, or BREP, in October. The program aims to strengthen Continue reading
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Chinese-made electric trucks boost green logistics in Mexico
Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD has delivered 20 21-ton electric trucks to Mexican beer maker Grupo Modelo. The Mexican beer maker has already ordered another 20 electric trucks from BYD and says it plans to add a total of 500 electric trucks to its fleet over the next two years. BYD will also supply the Continue reading
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Guano and the West’s opening of the Pacific
The 19th century search for fertilizer drove imperialist expansion and ecological destruction Climate & Capitalism: Ecosocialist Discussion BOOK REVIEW by Martin Empson Author: Gregory T. CushmanGUANO AND THE OPENING OF THE PACIFIC WORLDA Global Ecological History In the last two decades it has been common, in Marxist books on ecology, to find discussions of how Continue reading
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Is the ocean’s ability to regulate the global climate breaking down?
Oceans are a global force of nature that form the foundation of the blue planet on which we live. They cover 71% of our planet’s surface and make up 95% of all the space available to life. They are a life-support system for Earth and a global commons that provide us with free goods and Continue reading
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Omicron spread shows China got it right on Covid-19 strategy, top disease expert says
Wuhan lockdown was landmark decisive move that drastically contained the spread of the coronavirus in China, Zhong Nanshan says Expert credits rapid testing and universal vaccination coverage, along with stringent controls with country’s success Foreign nations should realise by now that China’s so-called over the top approach in handling the pandemic was the correct one, the Continue reading
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Officials in Guangzhou, China punished for axing city’s beloved Banyan trees
Ten Guangzhou officials have been penalized for their involvement in a “destructive” tree-removal project from the southern city’s urban landscape, China’s top anti-corruption watchdog said on 13 December 2021. As punishment, provincial authorities in Guangdong province dismissed five current and former senior officials — the latter now working elsewhere in the province of which Guangzhou is the Continue reading
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Turnover of China’s carbon market tops 5.8 billion yuan
Xinhua, 23 Dec 2021 – shared by China-Environment-News.com on Facebook Background from CEN: China’s national emissions trading system (ETS) was launched in July 2021. As the largest carbon market in the world, China’s system is more than ten times larger than that of the US state of California. The Chinese scheme has more than doubled the Continue reading
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NEVs to take over 30% share of China auto market in 2025
Xinhua, 25 Dec 2021 – shared by China-Environment-News.com on Facebook SHANGHAI, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — New-energy vehicles (NEVs) are expected to grab over 30 percent share of China’s auto market in 2025, according to the electric vehicle industry think tank China EV100. NEV sales in the world’s largest auto market are expected to exceed 5 million Continue reading
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China’s Environmental Ministry requires local authorities to stop haphazard ‘smokestack projects’ – down by 30% in 2021
The number of smokestack projects approved by government is expected to have declined this year as China forges ahead with its ambitious climate goals, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on 23 Decxember 2021. The number of such projects going through environmental impact assessments this year is estimated to have decreased by 30 percent Continue reading
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China cracks down on haphazard ‘smokestack projects’ by local authorities
Published 2021/12/25 The number of smokestack projects approved by government is expected to have declined this year as China forges ahead with its ambitious climate goals, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on 23 Decxember 2021. The number of such projects going through environmental impact assessments this year is estimated to have decreased by 30 Continue reading
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Protect or hunt? Environmental management of wild boars in China
Crop-eating wild boars have been a headache for local villagers for years in Tongjiang, a mountainous county nestled in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. “If they don’t come tonight, they will come tomorrow night, or the day after tomorrow. They will come anyway,” said villager Ma Xingquan. He also said that wild boars will not stop Continue reading
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US climate commitments in chaos – is Biden’s “Build Back Better” policy dead?
At the Glasgow climate meeting in November 2021, US President Biden was keen to promote the US “commitment” to the Paris Agreement (which the US regime had only recently “rejoined”) aimed at preventing some of the worst effects of global warming. Much was made at the time by the Biden regime and its acolytes of Continue reading
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The changing energy mix in our time – replacing fossil fuels with solar
China has the largest solar production capacity in the world. How did Chinese companies achieve this No.1 position and what are the changes solar power is bringing to our lives? In the attached Green Front Video, Kate Kui interviewes Li Zhenguo, founder of the largest solar company globally, Longi Green Energy, which is based in Continue reading
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Shanghai’s ‘Hanging Gardens of Babylon’ to open along creek
A new landmark shopping complex along the Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, dubbed the city’s Hanging Gardens of Babylon, will open on Wednesday. The initial phase of the “Tian An 1000 Trees” project will include restaurants, museums, art galleries and entertainment sites, along with the city’s earliest industrial heritages. Residents and tourists have been intrigued by Continue reading
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To achieve carbon neutrality, Chinese scientists in action
China’s emission control efforts will test and develop a series of scientific conclusions, methods and technological innovations. Many Chinese researchers are now engaged in the carbon emission-related studies. On Dec. 3, 2021 Lanzhou University, based in northwest China’s Gansu Province, jointly established an institute with LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. to build a research Continue reading
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China’s top legislature deliberates on law for improved conservation of Yellow River
On 1 March 2021, China brought into effect a law to protect the Yangtze River, the country’s longest river. Now, a new draft law on the protection of the Yellow River, the “mother river” of the Chinese nation, has submitted to the ongoing session of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee for deliberation on 20 Continue reading
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First digital mobile supervision station launched to protect ecology of Qinling Mountains
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China to build fusion energy research facility
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Chinese-built hydropower station in Zambia turns on 1st generator
The first generator for the Kafue Gorge Lower Hydropower Station, an infrastructure project in Zambia which was built by Chinese companies, has been put into operation in August 2021. As the largest single building infrastructure project and the largest hydropower station in Zambia, it has created new and favorable conditions for the country’s economic and Continue reading
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Zambia call for close cooperation with China on capacity building for green economy
The Zambian Minister for Green Economy and Environment, Hon. Eng. Collins Nzovu, MP, has called for close bilateral relations between Zambia and China in the areas of forestry development and management, green economy and climate change, meteorological and weather services, environmental protection and management, and capacity building. The Minister was speaking when the Ambassador of Continue reading
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China and Nigeria to form partnership to bring renewable energy to rural parts of Nigeria
The Federal Government of Nigeria has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the People’s Republic of China on renewable clean energy. The project will boost electricity supply to rural parts of Nigeria. China has also donated rural solar equipment to Nigeria while seeking cooperation to provide solutions to electrical shortages through a transfer Continue reading
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Fukushima radiation in Arctic adds to pressure on Japan
The revelation that radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear plant has reached the Arctic Ocean is sparking renewed calls for Japan to scrap a decision to dump toxic water from the crippled plant into the sea. According to a study by Yuichiro Kumamoto, a senior researcher from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Continue reading
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Mercury contamination reaches deepest parts of ocean: Chinese study
Chinese researchers and collaborators recently found that hadal trenches, the deepest parts of an ocean, receive a large amount of mercury. The study, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was conducted by a research team led by Xu Yunping, with Shanghai Ocean University and its international collaborators. Through the Continue reading
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Chinese researchers set up global database of soil seed banks
Chinese researchers have compiled and analyzed a database to characterize global determinants and patterns of soil seed banks. Soil seed banks, which include all viable seeds on or in the soil, represent a critical but hidden stock for potential future plant diversity on Earth. They are vital for the long-term survival of individual plant species Continue reading
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China light-splitting greenhouse also generates solar power to run the greenhouse’s operation
Chinese researchers have developed a new type of light-splitting greenhouse roof that can allow visible light to enter while converting near-infrared light into electricity. A group of researchers from the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, developed this new greenhouse covering structure based on the Continue reading
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