Plants growing at the bottom of sinkholes in China’s Dashiwei Tiankeng Group have adapted for harsh life underground. They don’t take up as much carbon as surface plants do, but they have much higher levels of nutrients in their tissues. ___________ Plants growing at the bottom of giant sinkholes in China are so awash in nutrients, they grow faster than their surface-dwelling counterparts, all while using less carbon, a fundamental […]
Chinese companies play important role in Cambodia’s solar development. In 2018, Hengtong Optic-Electric secured the rights to build the country’s second-largest solar farm, which has a capacity of 200MW. Additionally, late last year, the China Datang Corporation announced a $600 million investment in solar and wind projects in Cambodia. In April 2024 representatives of CHN Energy Investment Group Co. LTD, a Chinese state-owned energy company, met with the the Council […]
Malaysian media outlet The Star reports that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has confirmed Malaysia submitted an application to Russia to join the BRICS intergovernmental organisation. In a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office, Anwar said Malaysia’s desire to join the BRICS organisation was the main topic of his discussion with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “Malaysia has sent a letter of application to join the (BRICS) organisation to […]
China has challenged the US Inflation Reduction Act’s EV tax subsidies and four tax credits related to renewable energy – it said the law violates World Trade Organization rules as its regional production requirements artificially sets trade barriers which push up the cost of green energy transformation. China requested the World Trade Organization (WTO) establish a panel to settle a dispute over U.S. electric vehicle subsidies as part of the […]
What did China’s 3rd Plenum Resolution say about Ecological Civilization? China Ecological Civilization newsletter regularly reports on Chinese government documents with importance to ecological civilization. Its latest report is on the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization. It’s a long title. But the core is simple — improving ecological civilization construction related mechanisms. The Resolution is a […]
INCLUDES STRATEGIC INDUSTRIAL SECTORS SUCH AS ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND RENEWABLES “The two countries will participate in supercharged trade spanning electric vehicles to renewable energy.” Italy and China have signed a three-year action plan to implement past accords, to explore new forms of co-operation and to foster collaboration in sectors such as auto manufacturing. These moves are amid growing trade tensions between China and the European Union (EU) bureaucracy based in […]
” tens of thousands of scientific and engineering journals are omitted by Western university ranking systems, especially those not written in the English language.” The Leiden University Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) has posted new university rankings that add open-data sources to the traditional list of top journals, which were previously the standard. Common university ranking systems carefully consider research reputation and scholarship, including real-world impact and application. […]
The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology’s official news site, Science and Technology Daily, recently published an article “Who was finally trapped by the ‘small yard, high fence’?” The article referred to a strategy adopted by the US to restrict Chinese access to key technologies. Washington’s actions to curtail Beijing’s technological, scientific, and economic advancements under both Trump and Biden administrations have produced contrary results. In the chip industry, after […]
A rooftop solar project in China suggests community emissions-reduction work must benefit everybody to succeed. China’s housing regulations are such that the roof of an apartment block is communally owned by all residents. That means there must be unanimous agreement to install solar panels there, making this a far more complicated undertaking than doing the same atop a public, commercial or agricultural building. The Jianshe apartment complex in Wuhan’s Beihu subdistrict is […]
Seven years seems a lifetime in politics. In 2017, President Donald Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement. It prompted Canada, China and the European Union to convene an urgent meeting to reaffirm political commitment to global climate action. The successful meeting became an annual event which, this week, took place in Wuhan, China – just as the prospect of another Trump presidency looms large. At this year’s the invitation-only meeting of climate […]
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