First world countries are the main polluters, but it’s the poor who foot the bill, the Pakistan climate minister said. Pakistan’s minister for climate change described global warming as “the existential crisis,” adding that Pakistan has contributed less than 1% to greenhouse gas emissions. She also accused the first world countries of breaking their promises on fighting climate change. “We all know that the pledges made in multilateral forums have not been fulfilled”, she stressed. Sherry Rehman, climate minister Rich countries, which are responsible for the bulk of greenhouse emissions, should pay reparations to developing economies as the latter bear … Continue reading BRI participant Pakistan issues climate reparations demand

China and Timor-Leste signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) during the first Belt and Road Forum for international cooperation in March 2017. Bilateral trade doubled in 2021  China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi recently visited the South Pacific Islands, … Continue reading Timor Leste boosts trade and investment cooperation with China

AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE FOR RURAL PROSPERITY The World Conference on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems opened 18 July 2022 in Qingtian County, Zhejiang, China, with the theme of “Agricultural Heritage for Rural Prosperity.” The conference under the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was co-hosted by China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the government of east China’s Zhejiang Province. President Xi Jinping stressed that it is the common responsibility of the mankind, who has created splendid farming civilization in the long history, to protect agricultural heritage. China has actively responded to the globally important agricultural heritage systems … Continue reading China hosts FAO World Conference on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems