Energy. Transport & Climate Change~
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5G autopilot buses on trial in Zhengzhou, China
The Zhengzhou Bus Repair Plant was established in 1963 and today is China’s largest bus and coach manufacturer. The Yutong Bus company has a global market share of 15%, and 30% share of the China bus market. The business focuses on the production of all electric (NEV) and hybrid electric buses. It supplies these buses… Continue reading
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China issues guideline on green development in urban, rural areas
The general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council have issued a guideline underpinning green development in urban and rural areas. The guideline sets a target that by 2025 the institutional mechanisms and policy systems for green development in urban and rural areas will be basically established. The country… Continue reading
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China sets 2025 efficiency goals for energy-intensive industries
BEIJING :China’s government said on Thursday energy-intensive industries like steel, aluminium, cement and oil refining should ensure that more than 30per cent of their production capacity meets tighter energy efficiency standards by 2025. The goals, published on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), have been set to put China on track… Continue reading
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Conserving China’s crop biodiversity
A recent article in China Dialogue discusses the importance of conserving China’s agricultural plant biodiversity for future food security. Maintaining crop genetic diversity is a vital aspect of biodiversity in China, and around the world – hence the importance of looking after “germplasm” in China. Agricultural biological diversity (agrobiodiversity), is a small component of biodiversity,… Continue reading
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African foundation hails China’s pledge to support biodiversity conservation
China’s financial pledge to support biodiversity conservation in developing countries illustrates its commitment to promoting planetary health, the Nairobi-based African Wildlife Foundation said in a statement. During the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, in Kunming, the capital of southwest Yunnan Province, China announced… Continue reading
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China to further improve forest coverage and biodiversity by 2025
China will take more affirmative actions to increase forest cover and boost biodiversity by 2025, China’s forest and wildlife conservation authority announced. The announcement was made at a press briefing by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration(NFGA), during which NFGA officials responded to reporters’ questions on the country’s 14th Five-Year-Plan (2021-2025) about ecosystem restoration and… Continue reading
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China’s development of a carbon-neutral electricity system: 43% of electricity will be solar by 2060
Researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing, Nankai University in Tianjin, Renmin University of China in Beijing and Harvard University in the USA have found that solar energy could provide 43.2% of China’s electricity demands in 2060 at less than two-and-a-half U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour. For comparison, coal power tariffs in China ranged 3.6 to 6.5 cents per… Continue reading
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Mission Impossible: China’s South-North Water Transfer Project
Introduction by Kelvin Kwok Freshwater is an important resource in many countries especially developing ones, and many people in these regions do not really have access to it in daily life. Unfortunately, this issue tends to receive much less attention compared to, say, air pollution, partly because it seems less relevant to the buzzwords like global… Continue reading
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How Chinese infrastructure projects let nature be nature
“On a beautiful day, you could see various animals, zebras, gazelles, giraffes, even elephants,” Fauzia Hussein, a passenger on the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, described the wildlife she observed along the route. Since it opened to traffic in 2017, the Mombasa-Nairobi railway has been crossed by countless wild animals migrating between north and south, bringing a spectacle… Continue reading
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Melting the Roof of the World: Impact of Climate Change on the Tibet High Plateau, China
High up in the Tibet Autonomous Region and western China lies the Tibetan Plateau, an imposing landmass of huge importance to Asia. Now, climate change is threatening to melt its glaciers. What does this mean for China and south Asia? Nicknamed the ‘Roof of the World’, the Tibetan Plateau, or 青藏高原 (Qīng–Zàng Gāoyuán), far surpasses… Continue reading
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Kunming Declaration – Full Text
China Environment editorial note: The Kunming Declaration (see full text in English here) was adopted today. Its main purpose is to reaffirm the global political commitment to tackling the biodiversity crisis, and continue the process of coming to an agreement on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The text is agreed by ministers of all parties to… Continue reading
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Kunming Declaration adopted at COP15
Parties to the United Nations Biological Diversity Convention have adopted the Kunming Declaration, as a two-day high-level segment of the 15th meeting of the conference of the parties to the convention, or COP 15, concluded on Wednesday. A copy of the full text of the Kunming Declaration is available at this link: https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/0b20/847a/a9bf5b31366057821460aa68/kunmingdeclaration-en.docx The largest… Continue reading
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Beautiful China: Promoting ecological civilization with concrete action
Ensuring a balance between environmental protection and economic development is a challenge for the world, especially for China, a country which has undergone fast-paced development. On July 1, China announced the realization of Xiaokang society, or “a moderately prosperous society in all respects,” with its GDP soaring to about $15.7 trillion last year from 67.9 billion… Continue reading
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China’s path to global ecological civilization
Two months ago, a herd of China’s wandering Asian elephants finally returned home after a 17-month odyssey that caught global attention. But the discussion on ecological civilization continues, and the public’s ongoing interest in these international stars reflects that more and more awareness is being paid to the issue. China’s efforts to escort the elephants… Continue reading
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Historic Lao China passenger train named Lane Xang to arrive on Friday
The first passenger train to run on the Laos-China railway, which is scheduled to open on December 2, is expected to arrive in Vientiane on Friday. The Prime Minister’s Office on Monday issued a notice that named the historic passenger train ‘Lane Xang’ – Laos’ former name when the country was known as the Lane… Continue reading
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Joint statement of China and Russia on strengthening the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons
CHINA Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC | Global Times, October 08, 2021 The Russian Federation and China reaffirm their conviction that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BWC) is essential as a pillar of the international peace and… Continue reading
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Why humanity must save nature to save itself
Our planet – the only home we have – is at breaking point. Two-thirds of our Earth’s oceans and three-quarters of its land have been damaged by humans. One million species could vanish by 2050 – accelerating the global extinction rate potentially hundreds of times faster than over the last 10 million years. One-fifth of… Continue reading
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Yellow River Delta now world’s largest breeding ground for oriental storks
The Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Dongying City, east China’s Shandong Province, has become the largest breeding ground for oriental storks around the world, authorities in the province announced at a press conference on Saturday. In 2005, there were only seven oriental storks living in two nests at the reserve, but now there… Continue reading
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Biodiversity Conservation in China: Full Document
Xi Jinping to deliver COP 15 keynote speech The United Nations (UN) meeting on biodiversity takes place this week in the southwestern Chinese city Kunming. It will be the largest global gathering on the topic in a decade and is expected to provide a global roadmap for conserving and restoring biodiversity and ecosystems for the… Continue reading
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Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth: China in Action- Position Paper of the People’s Republic of China for the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity
China supports the United Nations in holding the Biodiversity Summit and lauds the UN efforts and contributions in advancing global environmental governance. Against the backdrop of accelerated global biodiversity loss and the impact of COVID-19 on various aspects of the economy and society, it is imperative that all parties work together to address the serious… Continue reading
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China issues first white paper on biodiversity – focus on global cooperation
China on Friday issued the country’s first white paper on biodiversity, detailing how the world’s most biodiverse country has endeavored to protect its ecosystems in pursuit of harmony between humans and nature. The white paper, titled “Biodiversity Conservation in China,” came days ahead of a key United Nations (UN) biodiversity meeting to be held in… Continue reading
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China’s Tibet spends more on ecological protection
LHASA — Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region spent 20.23 billion yuan (about 3.1 billion U.S. dollars) on ecological protection from 2016 to 2020, according to the local environmental authority. The amount more than doubled the spending for the previous five-year period, the region’s ecology and environment department said Wednesday in a statement. The funds were… Continue reading
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China the new world biodiversity chair
China will on Monday launch a crucial biodiversity summit to build political momentum to halt and even reverse the destruction of nature by man. The virtual opening of the COP15 summit will transfer leadership from Egypt, which presided over the last gathering in 2018, to China. As the human population climbs toward 9 billion by… Continue reading
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China fears nuclear leak after US submarine collision in its waters
China has expressed its grave concern about the accident involving US submarine USS Connecticut hitting an unknown object in the South China Sea, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Friday, urging the US to clarify more details about the accident, its purpose of cruising in the area, and whether it has caused a… Continue reading
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‘Deadly Trio’ (Part 3) – Ocean warming and permanent heatwaves: Global Oceans
Scientists call it the ‘deadly trio.’ If ocean acidification, oxygen loss, and overheating are not ended soon, a massive die-off of ocean life may be unstoppable. In September 2020, Ian Angus published 3 articles in CLIMATE & CAPITALISM , an eco-socialist / ecological Marxist journal. The articles considered the elements of the deadly trio separately, but stressed… Continue reading
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‘Deadly Trio’ (Part 2) – Running low on Oxygen: Global Oceans
Scientists call it the ‘deadly trio.’ If ocean acidification, oxygen loss, and overheating are not ended soon, a massive die-off of ocean life may be unstoppable. In September 2020, Ian Angus published 3 articles in CLIMATE & CAPITALISM , an eco-socialist / ecological Marxist journal. The articles considered the elements of the deadly trio separately, but… Continue reading
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‘Deadly Trio’ (Part 1) – Corrosive Seas: Global oceans
Scientists call it the ‘deadly trio.’ If ocean acidification, oxygen loss, and overheating are not ended soon, a massive die-off of ocean life may be unstoppable. In September 2020, Ian Angus published 3 articles in CLIMATE & CAPITALISM , an eco-socialist / ecological Marxist journal. The articles considered the elements of the deadly trio separately, but… Continue reading
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Nobel Prize for Physics goes to scientists who explained climate change
Earth’s climate is a vastly complex system on a grand scale. On a microscopic level, so is the complicated physics of atoms and molecules found within materials. The 2021 Nobel Prize in physics knits together the work of three scientists who illuminated such intricate physical systems by harnessing basic tools of physics. Half of the… Continue reading
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Technology empowers agriculture in China
To better ensure the wellbeing of its people, China’s policy-makers are eyeing a technology-empowered future for its agriculture. China, the world’s most populous country, feeds nearly one-fifth of the world’s population. With less than 9 percent of global arable land, how does China supply its 1.4 billion people with safe, nutritious food? WATCH VIDEO: SOURCE:… Continue reading
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BRI remains attractive as decarbonization push garners attention
China’s recent announcement about stepping up support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy and not to build new coal-fired power projects abroad makes the Belt and Road Initiative more appealing, experts have said. Kaposvar 100MW Photovoltaic Power Plant under construction in Kaposvar, Hungary. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua) NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (Xinhua)… Continue reading
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Africa draws inspiration from China to curtail desertification
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — China’s experience in reforestation and fighting desertification has injected lots of inspiration into Africa, which needs to curb the alarming expansion of the Sahara desert, Ethiopian experts have said. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently estimated that by 2030, Africa will lose two thirds of its… Continue reading
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Half of the Planet’s Coral Reefs Have Been Lost Since 1950
China experiments on how to grow a coral reef Global coral reefs have entered a distinctive human-dominated era, the Anthropocene, characterized by more frequent severe global coral bleaching events and regional-scale coral habitat degradation. The prime causes of this are increased ocean temperatures, increased light intensity and increased ocean acidity – all closely connected to… Continue reading
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Thorium: Did China just figure our how to make nuclear energy safe?
Experts believe there’s a cleaner, safer and better way to harvest nuclear energy. With its newest power plant, China might be first to get there. Scientists are very excited about an experimental reactor in Wuwei, China, and so are environmentalists. The reactor is cooled by molten salts instead of water, and instead of using uranium,… Continue reading
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Chinese scientists complete seed collection mission at highest altitude
Chinese scientists have recently completed a seed-collection mission on Mount Qomolangma, according to the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, a comprehensive national database for the collection and preservation of wildlife germplasm resources in China. Mount Qomolangma. The team successfully collected seeds of several plants such as crucihimalaya himalaica and saussurea gnaphalodes at a height of… Continue reading
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China’s Kunming ready to host key UN biodiversity meeting
Preparations are in the final stage in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming for a UN meeting on biodiversity. The first part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) is set to kick off in Kunming on Oct. 11. The meeting will review the… Continue reading
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