Month: February 2024

China acts on solar and wind waste recycling

February 15, 2024 CEN_com 0

China Sets Up Recycling System for Aging Wind Turbines and Solar Panels to Tackle Growing Waste in Renewable Industry Wind and solar resources are unlimited given by nature, but equipment components generating energy from the resources have a finite lifespan. As older projects are replaced and decommissioned, waste volumes are set to soar, with large amounts of capacity already approaching retirement age, posing big environmental risks. China, as the world’s […]

China-built UAE national rail network

February 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

China co-builds UAE’s first national rail network connecting all seven emirates The Etihad Rail national rail network, an important transportation artery in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was jointly constructed by a Chinese company, and is set to become a key transportation corridor linking industrial hubs and highly populated areas and ports. In March 2023 Etihad Rail successfully completed the main 900 kilometer stage of the UAE Etihad Railway Company’s […]

China funds BRI clean energy transition

February 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

China is making substantial green energy investments in infrastructure endeavours in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. In Africa, China’s work in alternative energy reached a historic high in 2023 of about US$2.7 billion. Alternative energy work in the Middle East totalled US$9.48 billion from 2018 through 2023. That figure dwarfs the US$2.23 billion spent over the previous decade. Central Asia set its own record last year, with US$1.3 […]

China to restore Hainan ecosystems

February 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s Hainan island to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030 Hainan province is one of 34 biodiversity hotspots globally, and boasts the most well-preserved and extensive contiguous tropical rainforests in China. Hainan, south China’s tropical island province, has released a biodiversity conservation strategy and action plan, calling for the restoration of 30 percent of its degraded ecosystems by 2030. It is the first provincial strategic plan on biodiversity conservation, […]

Diversified Forests Improve Carbon Storage

February 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

Diversified Forest Could Improve Carbon Storage – Chinese Scientists In the past few decades, China has invested more in afforestation than any other country. China took action earlier, now it has large area of artificial forest in the world, accounting for more than 1/3. But monoculture makes it fragile. Young Chinese scientists are exploring how to achieve efficient carbon storage through biodiversity of forests. Scientists have found that forests with a diverse […]

China leading race to green hydrogen technology

February 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

The increasing demand for hydrogen generated from renewable resources is energizing Chinese electrolyzer manufacturers. Data shows that in the first nine months of last year, there were 57 new green hydrogen projects already functioning, under construction, or pending approvals with a total investment volume of roughly 42 billion U.S. dollars. Source: ShanghaiEye, Feb 3, 2024.

China outlines 2024 environment goals

February 9, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s environment minister outlines goals for 2024 On 23 January, China’s ecology and environment minister Huang Runqiu outlined his department’s achievements in 2023 and priorities for 2024, in a 20,000 character-long (or approximately 14,000 word-long) speech. In the following, Carbon Brief translates and summarizes some of his key talking points. The speech was delivered at the ministry of ecology and environment (MEE) annual work conference – a meeting that looks at […]

Food security China’s first priority 

February 6, 2024 CEN_com 0

It’s a tradition now in China: The government’s first policy statement of the year focuses on agriculture and rural development. For 2024, the “No. 1 central document” prioritizes food security and preventing a large-scale return to poverty. For the first time, the document mentions a project called “Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Renovation.” As commentators Zheng Linyi and JI Chen explain, the project was a remarkably successful rural vitalization initiative from Xi Jinping’s […]

China’s BRI investments

February 6, 2024 CEN_com 0

On 5 February, 2024, the Green Finance & Development Center (GFDC) at Fudan University, China, in assocuation with the Asia Institute at Griffith University, Australia, released a report titled China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report 2023. In November 2023, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) released new BRI engagement statistics covering the period of January to October 2023. Cumulative BRI engagement in the full 10 years since the announcement of the BRI […]

Wild China – understanding wilderness

February 5, 2024 CEN_com 0

Wild China – Toward a greater appreciation of wilderness China is the world’s fourth most biodiverse nation. It has more large carnivore species than any country on earth, equivalent to that of the entire African continent. More people, too, but squeezed into only about a third of the land. China’s mega-biodiversity is due to what Tibetan-Sichuanese writer Alai calls “the earth’s staircase,” the stunning transition from China’s eastern plains, basins, […]