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China: Protecting grassland biodiversity
Pastures green China boasts some 400 million hectares of grassland, accounting for 42% of China’s total land area, making it the second-largest terrestrial carbon sink after forests in the country.Grasslands are distributed mainly in the temperate regions and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Human activities and climate change have adversely impacted 90% of the country’s grassland areas, which support a range of ecological services. the livelihoods of millions of people and are […]
Xinjiang: Green hydrogen mega-project
China’s first photovoltaic green hydrogen plant with an annual capacity of over 10,000 tonnes started production in Kuqa, signaling a major technical breakthrough in green transition in the country’s energy sector. Hydrogen can be produced from various sources of energy such as coal, natural gas and renewable energy through power generation. Green hydrogen is called “green” thanks to its origin of renewable energy such as wind and photovoltaic power. Green […]
BRICS Summit 2023: Key Goals
AFRICAN LEADERS CALL FOR NEW GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE On 22-23 June 2023 the UN Summit for a New Global Financial Pact was hosted by the French Government in Paris. The summit was attended by over 100 world leaders, including African leaders, China’s prime minister and Brazil’s president, with the goal of boosting crisis financing for low-income countries, reform of post-war financial systems and freeing up funds to tackle climate change. Kenya’s President […]
China: Renewables outstrip power growth
China is on track to nearly double wind and solar capacity by 2025, meeting its 2030 target five years early Global Energy Monitor China saw a rapid increase in electricity generation and renewable power capacity in the first five months of 2023. China’s electricity output grew again, by 3.9% year-on-year in the first five months of 2023, state central planner the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced. A key driver was demand from primary industry, which […]
Industrialization of colonial agriculture
The industrialization of agriculture by capitalism and Metabolic Rift. The industrialization of agriculture in the nineteenth century rested upon the long historical emergence of capitalism as a distinct socioeconomic order. An extract from Capitalism and Robbery: The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life, by John Bellamy Foster et al, Monthly Review, Dec 01, 2019. See also: The review of Guano and the opening of the Pacific world, recently shared […]
Africa dumps $US in cross border trade
Tech Revolution reports: Africa is leading the charge in global shift away from US dollar in international trade. De-dollarization is becoming the buzzword of the moment. Recent developments across the African continent, Europe, Iraq, and Venezuela are shining a spotlight on this growing trend. From the push for a unified currency in Africa to France’s bold decision to ditch the dollar in trade with China, the world is witnessing a […]
Hong Kong’s Green Transition
Hong Kong‘s 2023-24 budget takes action in the fight against climate change and proposes a number of new carbon neutrality measures to actively seize the opportunities under China’s “double carbon” strategy and accelerate Hong Kong’s development into an international green technology and financial center. Hong Kong is one of the first Asian cities to take action in the fight against climate change. According to Hong Kong’s Climate Action Plan 2050 […]