Articles by CEN_com

China’s ‘latecomer advantage’ in achieving carbon neutrality

November 8, 2021 CEN_com 0

Published 2021/11/08 A week before the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in October-November 2021 , China submitted its climate targets and implementation plans to the UN. (Plan available at http://www.scio.gov.cn/…/Document/1715506/1715506.htm) China aims to reach CO2 emissions peak by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Many people, however, remain skeptical about whether China will be able to fulfill its commitments. Li Junfeng believes that the country will meet […]

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Modernising China’s agriculture – Jack Ma backs government on food security

November 7, 2021 CEN_com 0

“Jack Ma’s reappearance shows that he will focus more on philanthropy, and that he agrees with and supports the official direction and current themes of eradicating poverty, rejuvenating rural areas and common prosperity.“ Introduction Alibaba founder Jack Ma seems set to take a role in agricultural development going by his latest moves to break into the agriculture industry, says an article in Lianhe Zaobao (Think China) on 3 November 2021. The article notes that Ma […]

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The US moral superiority complex is accelerating its decline

November 6, 2021 CEN_com 0

At first glance, the following article does not relate much to the global environmental crisis and China’s efforts to combat this internationally. However, in reality it provides a significant part of the context in which the West seeks to undermine China’s leadership of the Global South. It is well worth reading. “No matter how hard the power-knowledge regimes of Western intellectual production work to conceal the decline, the West no […]

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China releases over a million indigenous fish fry into Yangtze River tributary

November 5, 2021 CEN_com 0

More than 1 million fry of indigenous fish varieties were released into the headstream of the Chishui River, a major tributary on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The species were released during an environment conservation event held Wednesday in Zhenxiong County of Zhaotong City in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The event, aimed at promoting biodiversity of the Chishui River and increasing local fishery resources, saw endemic fish species […]

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Blaming China for the climate crisis is shameful nonsense

November 5, 2021 CEN_com 0

The West has followed a Cold War agenda of demonising the world’s most populous country, when in fact it is China that emits less per-person than the US and many of its other critics, while leading the way in renewable energy, reforestation and electric vehicles. Carlos Martinez writes: In the run-up to the Cop26 UN Climate Change Conference, currently taking place in Glasgow, politicians and media in the West conducted […]

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China’s vision of eco-civilization can prevent the “end of history”

November 3, 2021 CEN_com 0

Up until now, the world has followed the path founded in the West of industrial civilization. Its primary liberal political-economic model, characterized by unfettered private capital, has too often been eulogized as a perfect creation serving humanity. Indeed, it has been applauded as representing a utopian “end of history” which gives it a false quality of being representative of nature itself. However, continuing down this path, of industrial civilization, will […]

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How can China get rid of coal?

November 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

The crucial COP26 climate conference in Glasgow is underway. The conference is regarded as an important step in setting national carbon emission targets and mitigating global warming. China’s total carbon emissions are huge due to its population being the largest in the world. Coal usage is a complex issue in China. China aims to cut the use of fossil fuels to below 20 percent by 2060. But how can China, […]

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Global warming is behind extreme weather events: China NCC expert

November 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

A senior expert from China’s National Climate Center (NCC) has said that climate change is fueling the extreme weather events that hit the world this year – wildfires, heatwaves, torrential rains, drought, floods and storms.  “The occurrence of climate anomalies is due to the accelerating pace of global warming. If the global warming trend does not change, the frequent, strong and concurrent occurrence of extreme weather events will not change,” […]

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Over 100 world leaders endorse declaration to end deforestation by 2030

November 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

Over 100 world leaders pledged to “conserve forests and other terrestrial ecosystems and accelerate their restoration,” committing $19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests. The joint statement at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow was backed by the leaders of countries including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which collectively account for 85 percent of the world’s forests. The Glasgow Leaders’ […]

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China: “Opinions on further Strengthening the Protection of Biodiversity” announced by top authorities

November 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

The following extract from the Green Finance & Development Center at Fudan University, summarizes the key elements of the biodiversity “opinions” issued on October 19, 2021, by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Part of China together with the General Office of the State Council issued the “Opinions on further Strengthening the Protection of Biodiversity” (in Chinese). As a document issued by both the General Office […]