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Brazil and China’s Partnership Must Tackle Deforestation: Brazilian Professor
As President Xi Jinping arrives in Brazil for the G20 Leaders’ Summit, there is a renewed focus on the growing relationship between the two nations. This visit highlights the importance of China-Brazil ties, not only in trade and investment but also in the broader spectrum of international relations, where climate change is becoming a central Continue reading
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The West blocks Global South demands at UN summit for increased biodiversity funding
The UN biodiversity summit – the world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16 – last weekend in Colombia ended in disarray. Many developing country delegations left the talks “early” due to the 14-hour over run. Developing country delegations were enraged at how the talks were organised, leaving crucial issues undecided at the final hour. Despite Continue reading
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Scientists in China create transparent, fireproof glass from bamboo
Researchers at the Central South University of Forestry and Technology (CSUFT) in Changsha, China, have developed a novel glass-like transparent material using natural bamboo. The researchers used their transparent material to make perovskite solar cells; the glass showed high light transmittance at 71.6 percent, leading to an improvement of 15.29 percent in energy conversion efficiency. Continue reading
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China leads in combating desertification – the largest contributor to global afforestation
With more than half of its reclaimable desertified land treated, China has taken the lead globally in achieving zero growth in land degradation and become the largest contributor to global afforestation, according to China’s National Forestry and Grassland Administration. Since 2012, China has seen its desertified land decrease by 4.3 million hectares, said Guan Zhiou, head Continue reading
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Will China’s smart tech help stem global biodiversity loss?
Global conservation foundation, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has an ongoing partnership with Shenzhen-bsed Huawei, and wants more tech firms to help with wildlife monitoring efforts. In October 2023 Huawei and the IUCN signed a strategic cooperation agreement of Phase 2 of a joint effort to use technology to help protect biodiversity. A task Continue reading
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Environmental benefits of China’s hybrid solar-fishery projects
In China, fishery-solar hybrid systems have grown dramatically in recent years. These hybrid system are straightforward: a solar array is installed above the fish pond’s water surface, and the water area beneath the solar array is used for fish and shrimp farming. Fishery-solar hybrid systems come with several environmental and economic advantages, including the ability of the floating Continue reading
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China’s Yellow River strategy tackles one of the most persistent environmental challenges in history
This video takes a look into China’s groundbreaking efforts to manage the Yellow River—one of the most significant engineering feats in the world. Recently, the river’s water transfer project achieved incredible success, removing over 300,000 tons of silt and lowering the riverbed by 5.1 meters, leaving experts astounded. The Yellow River, also known as China’s “Mother Continue reading
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Can China’s ‘ecological redlines’ help other countries hit conservation goals?
China’s experience of drawing up protected areas and satellite cooperation with Brazil can boost progress towards 2030 targets, scientist Gao Jixi tells Dialogue Earth Around the world, differing financial capabilities and a lack of regional cooperation mean that the availability of biodiversity data varies wildly between countries. Many developing nations are unable to assess the state of Continue reading
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Việt Nam & China to boost energy & rail infrastructure cooperation
Việt Nam’s Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính is on a four-day trip to China, during which he held talks with leading Chinese companies in infrastructure and energy fields. Prime Minister Chính is seeking increased Chinese investment in energy in ViệtNam, especially wind power, solarpower, LNG power, pump–storage hydropower and transport infrastructure developments. He also urged Continue reading
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Hot Oceans, Rising Climate Concerns: Chinese scientists raise the alarm
In 2023, the world’s oceans hit their hottest temperatures ever recorded, a silent yet significant milestone that speaks volumes about the state of our planet. On January 11, 2024, a startling report was published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences by an international research team of 34 scientists from 16 institutions worldwide, led by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at Continue reading
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Canada-China trade dispute comes amid West’s paralysis of international trade governance
Policy complexity of Canada escalating the trade war with China In late August, Canada announced a 100 per cent surtax on electric vehicles manufactured in China, and a 25 per cent surtax on Chinese steel and aluminum products. The move was seen as a deeply hostile protectionist move, and an irresponsible and misinformed violation of Continue reading
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EU’s tariffs on Chinese EVs take away consumers’ choices and block green transition
European Union members have voted to impose tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs). Daryl Guppy, former national board member of the Australia China Business Council and Australian representative of the Silk Road International Chamber of Commerce, noted that these tariffs take away European consumers’ choice to buy EVs at a variety of price levels, and Continue reading
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China and West are driving in opposite directions on electric cars
Top German carmaker VW has reported a 26% year-to-date rise in fully-electric car sales in China—offset by a fall in sales, also of 26%, of the same products in the United States. Sales in Europe also fell, by 14%. The gap is widening, third quarter figures reveal. VW, maker of luxury brands Porsche and Audi, Continue reading
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Ongoing US nuclear contamination of the Pacific Islands
Forget China: the U.S. is Its own worst enemy Pacific Island countries see U.S. treatment of the Marshall Islands as fundamentally unjust – not only in the past, but in the present – and it has severely damaged their perceptions of the United States. The United States is competing with China for influence and access in the Continue reading
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Large-scale solar plants have positive environmental effect on desert areas: Chinese scientists
A research team led by scientists from China’s Xi’an University of Technology has assessed the ecological and environmental effects of large-scale PV development in desert areas. The research found that big solar power plants have a positive impact on the ecological environment of desert areas. The study was conducted at a 1 GW solar park Continue reading
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China leads the world in green hydrogen
In 2022, China set a target of producing up to 200,000 tonnes (t) of “green hydrogen” per year by the end of 2025, to help achieve its “dual-carbon” goal. A Norway-based research company reports China is projected to “exceed that volume” by the end of 2024. In the article below Carbon Brief looks at China’s green hydrogen production Continue reading
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China’s ESG rules approach maturity after 20 years
China’s first policy on environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance reporting – the Announcement on Corporate Environmental Information Disclosure – was issued by China’s State Environmental Protection Administration in 2003. It encouraged and supported enterprises to disclose environment-related information. Twenty years later, in December 2023, the State Council released its Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful Continue reading
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China Unveils Most Advanced Hydrogen Train in the World
China is making waves in hydrogen energy technology with the launch of the CINOVA H2, the country’s first intelligent hydrogen-powered intercity train. Developed by CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., this groundbreaking train was unveiled at the International Rail Transit Technology Exhibition in Berlin on September 24, 2024. Achieving “zero carbon” emissions, the CINOVA H2 outperforms international counterparts Continue reading
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China and Brazil uniquely positioned to lead on South-South climate cooperation
At a time when economic and geopolitical headwinds are making ambitious agreement on climate finance more difficult, China and Brazil are uniquely positioned to set a new course for international climate finance, given their ambitious leadership, robust international advocacy and clout with Global South countries. Dialogue Earth reports that a recent ministerial meeting on climate change Continue reading
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China’s renewable boom puts ambitious climate goals in reach: CREA
China’s rapid deployment of clean energy has made it possible for the nation to achieve more ambitious goals to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. CREA is an Helsinki-based nonprofit think tank, founded in 2019 to conduct independent research on energy and air pollution. China Continue reading
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Shenzhen has nearly twice as many supercharging stations as gas stations
Shenzhen — the city where BYD is headquartered — has become the first city in China to see the number of supercharging stations outnumber gas stations, as well as the number of charging guns outnumber gas guns, the Shenzhen Economic Daily report noted. Shenzhen has seen the number of supercharging stations in the city nearly Continue reading
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Australia’s subserviance to US anti-China policy costs loss of ‘billions in green Chinese investment’
Australia has the potential to tap into billions of dollars of renewable energy investments from China but only if it changes foreign investment policies and its approach to the superpower nation. The think-tank Climate Energy Finance issued the predictions in its recent Green Capital Tsunami report, which found Chinese investment in Australia had fallen to a decades-long low despite Continue reading
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NEW BOOK: People’s China at 75 – The Flag Stays Red
Marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, saw the launch of a new book: People’s China at 75 – The Flag Stays Red. Edited by Friends of Socialist China co-editors Keith Bennett and Carlos Martinez, and published by Praxis Press, the book brings together different perspectives and understandings of the trajectory Continue reading
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China-Africa Alignment Weakens West’s Attempts to Impair Development of Global South
In this video Lena Petrova talks to Professor Anna Rosario Malindog-Uy. Based in Manila, she is an acknowledged geopolitical analyst who has written much on the issues of Global South development and the the geopolitical tensions in the South China Sea. She is a Senior Research Fellow of the Global Governance Institution (GGI), and a PhD candidate Continue reading
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Top Chinese scientists abandon US positions – universities losing hundreds of billions of dollars
Research and Development (R&D) is a major profit center for the top universities in the United States. Besides the nearly $100 billion they earn in grants from the US government and private sources, university-based researchers create patents and inventions that generate many more billions annually. China is the largest foreign source of scientists and researchers Continue reading
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Uganda: Chinese hydro project spurs green energy development
On September 26, 2024 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni commissioned the Chinese-built 600 MW Karuma Hydropower Station and the 400 kV transmission line of the Karuma Interconnection Project in the midwestern Ugandan district of Kiryandongo. Karuma is Uganda’s largest hydro-power plant and the second major Chinese-built hydro project in the country. Uganda joined the Belt and Road Continue reading
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Chinese-Australian researchers develop new recycling process for PV modules
A Chinese-Australian research team use deep eutectic solvents (DESs) to separate ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) adhesive films from end-of-life solar panels. The low cost method achieved a 100% EVA separation rate with an aluminum removal efficiency of 98.4%. The team comprised scientists from Kunming University of Science and Technology, China and the University of New Continue reading
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Sustainable global transport scheme proposed by China
China has proposed a plan at the United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Forum 2024, aimed at enhancing global sustainable development within the transportation sector, emphasizing improvements in infrastructure and the stabilization of international logistics supply chains. China’s Vice-Premier He Lifeng highlighted the importance of global transportation cooperation during the opening ceremony of the Global Sustainable Transport Forum, held in Continue reading
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China to develop 92 solar farms for Cuba
China has emerged as a key partner, providing expertise and financial support for Cuba’s renewable energy projects. A Chinese government donation has already facilitated significant progress at the 51 MW Herradura 1 wind farm, to be followed by the planned Herradura 2 supplying a further 50 MW. Herrandura 1 is being built by Chinese firms Continue reading
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Food security in China and the impact of climate change
As the global climate changes, extreme climate events, such as heatwaves, droughts, and flooding, are becoming more commonplace. Like many countries, China has suffered from extreme climatic events in recent years and climatic extremes combined with EI Niño effects have exposed vulnerabilities in its agricultural landscape. Climate change poses a great challenge to global food Continue reading
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Sino-Vietnamese hydro-power project: green energy cooperation
Explore the Seo Chong Ho Hydropower Station – built as a testament to Sino-Vietnamese cooperation, this station illuminates not just the local grid but also the lives of communities it serves. The Seo Chong Ho Hydropower Project situated in Lào Cai province in the northwest region of the country bordering China’s Yunnan province, was Việt Nam’s first foreign-invested hydropower project. Continue reading
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Marine Eco-Environmental Protection in China – A White Paper
On September 2, 2024 China Environment News published an article on the release of the White Paper. Guilherme Ferreira has brought to our attention that the full text of this important policy document is now available (see link below). We have also updated our earlier post. The following is the Preface to the White Paper: Continue reading
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Xi Jinping urges more efforts in ecological conservation and green development in Yellow River basin
In China Ecological Civilization newsletter on Substack, Sep 12, 2024, Ying Xue writes: On the afternoon of September 12, during the inspection of Shaanxi and Gansu, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a symposium in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, on comprehensively promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin. In October 2021, China issued the “Outline Continue reading
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