Africa is looking at China’s presence in energy on the continent with hope for a just energy transition from coal to renewables. On 22 September, speaking at the UN General Assembly, China’s president, Xi Jinping, announced China would provide strong support for green transitions in developing nations and stop building coal power overseas. On 30 November,… Continue reading

Cuba it should be remembered was the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with China back in 1960. Sixty-one years after that union, both nations continue to collaborate with each other in the fight against hegemonism and unilateralism, the use of force, and violation of international laws. Today, the two countries have a… Continue reading

The Aral Sea has a grand history in Kazakhstan and the Central Asian region and was once one of the four largest lakes in the world, covering 68,380 square kilomters with Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. Its name means “Island Sea” as this water body is surrounded by the forbidding deserts… Continue reading

🔴 A Chinese renewable energy firm has signed an agreement with the Maldives to provide a hybrid solar-diesel power system in the inhabited islands of an atoll south of capital Male. Sino Soar Hybrid (Beijing) Technology Co. Ltd has won the bid for the mini-grid project in August 2021. The Maldives environment minister Shauna Aminath… Continue reading

Vietnam’s wind power market is the most mature in Southeast Asia. Vietnam has abundant wind resources. The coastline of more than 3000 kilometers in the coastal area ensures good wind speed. Energy consumption in Vietnam will continue to grow at an average annual rate of 8% until 2030. Wind energy and other renewable energy sources… Continue reading

BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — Recently, a New Delhi-based “think tank” Observer Research Foundation (ORF) groundlessly questioned the win-win nature of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), indulging in an unwarranted smear that it only exports carbon emissions to BRI nations, and brings China a “double win.” Considering what has truly happened along the Belt… Continue reading

DAKAR, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — China and African nations have issued a declaration on climate change cooperation, recognizing that climate change has become a major challenge to the natural ecological environment and social and economic development of China and Africa. The Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was held on 29-30 November,… Continue reading

China and Russia have been stepping up energy cooperation during the first nine months of this year with bilateral energy trade reaching a new high, and the two sides vowed to further enhance energy cooperation in sectors like oil and gas, nuclear, petrochemicals and renewables. Bilateral trade between China and Russia in the energy industry… Continue reading

Western politicians wanted to emerge from the Glasgow COP26 climate summit with their “green credentials” burnished, proving that they have done everything in their power to prevent a future global temperature rise of more than 1.5C. Climate scientists and developing nations are already doubtful whether the pledges being made go far enough. But the visible activity… Continue reading

CGN Brazil Energy Holding Co., a branch of China General Nuclear Power Group, announced its LDB wind power expansion project was completed and put into operation Thursday. The LDB wind power expansion project is located in Lagoa do Barro in northeast Brazil, with a total installed capacity of 82,800 kW. It is the first Greenland… Continue reading

Republished by China Environment from China Dialogue under a Creative Commons licence. Having said it will stop building coal power plants overseas, could China instead export its renewable energy model to developing nations? In Yinchuan, Ningxia province, on the eastern side of the Yellow River, over four million solar panels turn to the sun. Below… Continue reading

China will endeavor to draft an action plan for methane emission control during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period and intensify efforts to establish monitoring and accounting systems for the greenhouse gas, an official said at a news conference on Thursday. Lu Xinming, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment’s deputy director for climate change, also… Continue reading

Introduction The scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this year published its key report: “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”.  The IPCC report gives various probabilities of hitting the key goal of restricting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, depending on a range of CO2 emissions measured in gigatons… Continue reading

The first China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held on 22 October 2021 via video link, little more than a week before the UN Climate Conference in Glasgow. Speaking of bilateral economic cooperation, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi noted that China has signed cooperation documents for the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative… Continue reading

Article published by China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Through the Belt and Road Initiative, China is helping Pacific nations work towards their sustainable development goals, mitigating environmental risks and tackling global warming. China’s BRI has had success among Pacific countries by providing them with sustainable economic development and helping to reduce poverty. Its… Continue reading

 17 November 2021, Apia, Samoa – The People’s Republic of China has continued its support for a resilient Pacific environment with the presentation of its yearly financial assistance to the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the lead agency in the Pacific region for managing and protecting the environment.  Chinese Ambassador, His Excellency Chao… Continue reading

CHINA LEADS WORLD IN WIND POWER, SOLAR POWER, BIOMASS POWER & HYDROPOWER Among the renewable energy sources, the installed capacity of hydropower, wind power, solar power and biomass power generation has reached 385 million, 299 million, 282 million and 35.34 million kilowatts respectively, all ranking first around the globe.China’s accumulative installed capacity of renewable energy reached 1… Continue reading

The 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov 13 without making any significant movement forward. There is no clarity on whether limiting the global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius remains a practical objective. One participant probably put it right: Though… Continue reading

We will continue to develop a green Silk Road, encourage businesses to fulfill their social responsibility, learn from environmental, social, and governance concepts, and build more eco-friendly projects with a high standard, in a bid to pursue the green development of the Belt and Road cooperation. Han Wenxiu, CPC Central Committee Statement on BRI at… Continue reading

BEIJING, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — China on Tuesday summarized in a landmark resolution the sweeping, historic and transformative changes in its ecological and environmental protection endeavors. The resolution, adopted at the sixth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee held in Beijing last week, coincides with the country’s renewed version of the Belt and… Continue reading

Western governments have tried to blame China and India for the COP26 flop. But it was the rich capitalist states of Europe and North America that refused to accept the just demands of the world’s poorest nations, leaving us still on course for disaster. When the final gavel went down on COP26, the British government… Continue reading

BEIJING : China’s major coal consuming industries, including power, steel, cement and coal chemical production, could hit peak use of the fossil fuel around 2024, a government research report said on Wednesday. China has pledged to bring its carbon emissions to a peak by 2030 and to start phasing down coal use after 2026. The… Continue reading

The bloc of four countries called ‘BASIC’ – comprising Brazil, South Africa, India and China – sought a fresh long-term climate finance goal at the recent UN-led COP26 summit on climate change in Glasgow, Scotland. In a statement presented by India’s environment minister, Bhupender Yadav, on behalf of the Basic countries during the opening of… Continue reading

“Virtual currency mining consumes a lot of energy and results in carbon emissions, which do not play a positive role in promoting industrial development and technological improvements.” China’s top economic regulator announced on Tuesday it will intensify regulation over virtual currency mining as part of the country’s ongoing efforts to save energy and cut carbon… Continue reading

While all deserts, including the Sahara, increase in size during the dry season and decrease during the wet season, human-caused climate change in conjunction with natural climate cycles, are causing the Sahara desert to grow more and shrink less. Since 1920, the Sahara has grown beyond its initial boundaries and gobbled up more space, growing… Continue reading