Energy. Transport & Climate Change~
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Guangdong turns inky rivers into scenic spots
Southern China’s Guangdong province has been striving to address its water pollution through systematic moves over a half decade, with efforts from both the government and the public. For years, Huo Hanyu’s canoe team had been roaming the waterbodies of southern China’s Guangdong province and other provinces in order to train. There were many training bases to… Continue reading
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China takes “hugely important” steps for fighting climate change: U.S. expert
“In the Chinese government there is complete acceptance of the basic science of climate change, no lack of belief in science“ WASHINGTON, June 9 (Xinhua) — From clean energy technologies to emissions trading program, the Chinese government is taking some steps that are “hugely important” for fighting climate change, a leading U.S. expert has said.… Continue reading
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Chinese electric battery giant to build ‘gigafactories’ in England, France
Plans were announced this week for two new electric car battery plants in France and Britain involving Envision, the Shanghai-based company that has quietly built a global renewable energy empire. CGTN has reports: Nissan has launched plans for a vast battery plant, known as a gigafactory, in northeastern England, where it will manufacture new electric… Continue reading
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Central Asia’s largest wind power project in Kazakhstan connected to the grid
Central Asia’s largest wind power project with a generating capacity of 100 MW was connected to the grid on 20 June 2021. The power project, with a total of 40 wind turbines, near the city of Zhanatas, Kazakhstan was built by a Chinese firm and is jointly owned by local company Visor Kazakhstan and China Power… Continue reading
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China pauses squid fishing in Pacific, Atlantic breeding grounds for second year
CGTN reported on 29 June 2021 that China will launch a voluntary fishing moratorium on the high seas from July this year to preserve squid resources in open waters, according to China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs which regulates fishing. From July 1 to September 30, the fishing ban will be observed in part… Continue reading
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China eliminates malaria
The World Health Organization (WHO) on 29 June 2021 certified China as free of malaria, after a decades long effort that saw an estimated annual toll of 30 million cases in the 1940s, including 300,000 deaths, to zero in 2017. Along the way, China developed new surveillance techniques, medicines, and technologies to break the cycle… Continue reading
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China phases-out of coal investments in Bangladesh
(Note article first published 2 May 2021 in China Environment News) In February 2021, China’s embassy in Bangladesh sent a letter to the local Ministry of Finance stating that “the Chinese side shall no longer consider projects with high pollution and high energy consumption, such as coal mining [and] coal-fired power stations”. Why did China… Continue reading
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China withdraws finance offer for $3 billion coal-fired power plant in Zimbabwe
Environmental concerns The Sengwa coal fired power station project in Zimbabwe was being developed by RioEnergy, a unit of RioZim. Last year the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) was reported to have signed a formal notice of interest in funding the plant, to be constructed by China Gezhouba Group, while associated transmission lines… Continue reading
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Pakistan, China to work for ecological civilisation under CPEC project
Islamabad : Pakistan and China are going to turn China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into a model for ecological civilisation aiming at restoration of the natural environment in the region. According to the details, a joint committee has been formed to work towards ecological civilisation that also comprises Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate… Continue reading
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Fact check: Is China the main climate change culprit?
CLIMATE CHANGE MYTHS ABOUT CHINA DEBUNKED The following article, from the German news service Deutsche Welle, (DW) reiterates what China Environment News has been writing about since we started 18 months ago. It’s very encouraging to see the one of the largest and most influential broadcasters in Europe take such an unbiased and objective view… Continue reading
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Hong Kong: new Clean Air Plan to achieve Tokyo, Paris levels of clean air by 2035
Hong Kong’s air quality has improved since the publication of the last plan in 2013 – pollutant levels overall have fallen by up to 50 per cent and visibility increased 40 per cent over the past five years. Hong Kong has set itself a new target to reach the same standards of air quality as… Continue reading
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Good news for wind power? Has 6 decades of surface wind “stilling” ended in China?
Since the 1960s, a significant trend has been that global land surface wind speed (SWS) has significantly weakened, a phenomenon known as global terrestrial stilling. The stilling is widespread worldwide. It has seriously affected the ecological environment and social economy, especially as a factor restricting the sustainable development of the wind energy industry. The latest… Continue reading
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Across China: Green buildings house hopes of low carbon future
TIANJIN, June 28 (Xinhua) — With a few clicks on a screen, the apartment’s lighting and air conditioning systems can be operated, the skylights can be opened or closed, as well as the curtains… In a smart room displayed at an expo held in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, all futuristic home ideas have been translated… Continue reading
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Bonsai-like mangroves thrive in south China’s Techeng Island
Techeng Island in Zhanjiang City, south China’s Guangdong Province, is home to one of the most beautiful mangrove trees in China. The picturesque tourist resort features 50.7 square kilometers of mangrove forests. Many of the bonsai-like mangrove trees growing in the southeastern part of the island are over 100 years old. The mangrove forest in the… Continue reading
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China’s water quality improves in first five months of 2021
Xinhua27 Jun 2021 China’s water quality improved in the first five months of the year, according to data released by China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment. The data shows that 81.8 percent of surface water was graded Class I to III (good quality) in the January-May period, up 1 percentage point from the same period… Continue reading
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New generation of intelligent high-speed trains put into operation
Source: Xinhua| 2021-06-26 BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) — China’s new generation of “Fuxing” high-speed trains was put into operation on Friday, offering intelligent operating systems and facilities. The high-speed Electric Multiple Unit (EMU), based on the Fuxing CR400BF EMU, is equipped with technologies and services including intelligent data analysis, a wireless network based on 5G technology,… Continue reading
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The Sands of Time: How China tamed a 1,000-plus-year-old sand land in seven decades
VIDEO link: http://mp42.china.com.cn/video_tide/video/2021/6/18/20216181624005599095_376.mp4 Deadly sands Shi Guangyin was born into a farmer’s family in Dingbian County, Yulin, Shaanxi Province. The county sits at the conjunction of four provincial-level areas and the southern edge of Maowusu. In the 1950s, 39 percent of the county’s land area was covered by sand, and the overall greenness was only… Continue reading
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Global vegetation stores a decade of human carbon emissions underground
The amount of carbon stored below ground by plants is significant from a global perspective. Recent research shows that cold and dry areas, such as the Mongolian plateau, have the highest fractions of plant carbon stored underground. The Mongolian Plateau, comprises the nation of Mongolia and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, which has… Continue reading
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Hydro-power station navigation project in Guizhou opens to trial traffic
The Goupitan Hydropower Station navigation project in Yuqing County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province was opened to trial traffic on Tuesday as a 500-ton ship passed the three-stage ship lift. With a total length of 2,306 meters, it allows 500-ton ships to enter the Yangtze River in Fuling, Chongqing along the route of Guiyang’s Kaiyang Wharf-Goupitan… Continue reading
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As China pursues a green future, Bitcoin miners feel the squeeze
Is Bitcoin an example of the worst excesses of rampant neo-liberalism? Patrick Li’s Bitcoin mine used to be filled with the persistent hum of rows and rows of computers, all busy around the clock solving the complicated mathematical puzzles needed to keep the world’s most popular cryptocurrency operational. Li, 39, had set up shop in… Continue reading
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Chinese scientists ‘reinvent’ potatoes to help solve global food crisis
Chinese scientists have developed a generation of “pure and fertile potato lines” with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement. The experiment, led by Huang Sanwen, a researcher with the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (AGIS) under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), used genome design to transform potato breeding from a slow, non-accumulative… Continue reading
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China launches EarthLab: first facility exploring Earth system interactions
Laboratory for the simulation of climate, environmental, ecological, Earth and space weather systems, to predict climate and environment variability, prevent and mitigate natural disasters more effectively. The virtual EarthLab was officially launched on 23 June 2021 in Beijing’s Huairou Science City on Wednesday. In partnership with Tsinghua University, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the… Continue reading
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The preservation of an abandoned village has created a living museum of decades past
Time froze in Zhiziluo Village, Yunnan Province, in 1986. Painted slogans of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong, along with his portrait, are still visible on the mottled walls. Vines, after creeping over some houses, stopped growing but remained in place, withered. A basketball court at the center of the village is empty and quiet. It’s… Continue reading
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Crested ibis, once nearly extinct, now thrive due to conservation efforts
Click link to view video: http://mp42.china.com.cn/video_tide/video/2021/6/21/20216211624237765464_376.mp4 The elderly people of Yangxian County regard crested ibises as a symbol of good luck. Not only is the red color on their crests considered auspicious in Chinese culture, but they also, like cranes, are known because of their long lives as a symbol of longevity. The people of… Continue reading
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New Chinese study warns of risks from declining oxygen levels in large cities worldwide
BEIJING – A Chinese research team has recently revealed the emerging risks of declining oxygen levels in large cities around the world, raising concerns over people’s health and the potential for sustainable development in major cities, Xinhua reports. A research team from Lanzhou University investigated oxygen balances and related risks in 391 cities worldwide with… Continue reading
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China’s Volvo invests $118 million in US to produce new EVs
Volvo is 100% owned by Geely Automobiles in China. The founder of Geely personally owns 10% of the common shares of Daimler Benz AG in Germany. Geely is the largest privately-owned automotive manufacturer in China today. Three of Geely’s people sit in the Daimler Benz AG Board of Directors. It is understood that there is… Continue reading
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Coal phase-out in the Belt and Road Initiative
An analysis of Chinese-backed coal power from 2014-2020 One constantly sees claims in the Western media that China is massively expanding coal fired power plants around the world. The facts, as always, are not quite what the handful of Western regimes claim. On 16 June 2021, the Green BRI Center released a study of overseas… Continue reading
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China takes commanding global lead in research published on decarbonization technologies
TOKYO — China leads the world in the number of research papers published on technologies related to the global pivot away from greenhouse gases, and is catching up to the U.S. in terms of the quality and impact, a Nikkei survey shows. China was wold leader in 16 of 18 research areas for the period… Continue reading
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Explore one of China’s largest intelligent tomato greenhouses
Red, plump and juicy – Hongfu tomatoes have been selling well at supermarket chains across China, from Carrefour in Beijing to Metro in Shanghai. Their quality and flavor profile have made them a hit among shoppers, but what is their real success story? CGTN explores Beijing Hongfu Agriculture, one of China’s largest intelligent tomato greenhouses.… Continue reading
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Could seawater rice determine the future of food security?
Only 14% of China’s vast territory is arable land. China is home to 100 million hectares of wasteland – that’s an area the size of Egypt – where crops cannot grow due to high soil salinity or alkalinity. For decades, the Chinese government and scientists have made great efforts to improve soil quality, and now,… Continue reading
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China’s NEV ownership accounts for half of global total
China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) ownership reached 5.8 million units by late May, accounting for about half of the global total, an industry forum said. The country’s NEV sales reached 950,000 units in the first five months of 2021, 2.2 times that of the same period last year, according to data released by the China… Continue reading
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Green algae bloom hits coastal waters off Shandong province
CGTN reported on 16-June-2021 that an algal bloom (Enteromorpha algae) has invaded the waters of Qingdao City, on coast of China’s Shandong Province. The explosive growth of wild green algae in the foreshores can lead to green tides, which can destroy the ecological balance of water, affect the coastal landscape and destroy the aquaculture, among… Continue reading
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Climate issues are rising in importance for Russia

Russia has been slow to move on climate action – but that is about to change, with the government set to deliver a host of measures on climate change action, with a detailed plan to be published by October 2021. After seven years of sanctions and accusations of malign activities by all sides, political relations… Continue reading
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Carbon emissions manager, a new profession that helps enterprises consolidate green development
A slew of reform measures have been rolled out by China since the country proposed to peak carbon emission and achieve carbon neutrality. A national carbon emission trading system is scheduled to be launched this year, under which enterprises would be allocated with carbon emission quota by relevant government departments according to certain standards. If… Continue reading
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New giant rhino fossil from China is one of largest land mammals ever found
A 26.5 million-year-old skull found in northwest China has been identified as another extinct species of giant rhino, one of the largest mammals to ever roam the land. The fossil is remarkably well-preserved, and after close analysis, scientists have named it Paraceratherium linxiaense, the sixth species of this hornless rhino genus to be uncovered in Eurasia. It’s… Continue reading