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Power cuts fuel China’s energy mix change

30/09/2021 CEN_net 0

The shortage of electricity in China at present is mainly caused by three factors. The industrial demand for electricity is increasing fast. The price of coal has soared. And local governments are trying to fulfill their emissions cut quotas. By […]

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China to boost new energy amid rationing

29/09/2021 CEN_net 0

80-100 gigawatts of wind, solar power to be installed annually in China Photo taken on Oct. 23, 2019 shows the Nanfeng wind power field in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge) Amid public concerns over the current […]

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The Dawn of Another Age: The Communian

27/09/2021 CEN_net 0

An extract from an article published in the Monthly Review Today the moment of truth looms large. We currently reside within a “Great Climacteric”—first identified in the 1980s by geographers Ian Burton and Robert Kates—a long period of crisis and […]

China’s environmental journey: 1972 Stockholm

27/09/2021 CEN_net 0

The Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, in June 1972, was the first major United Nations event featuring the People’s Republic of China. It helped shape the country’s understanding of environmental issues ever since. In 2022, China was set to […]