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Tanzania recommends adoption of Chinese Juncao technology to promote sustainable agriculture

March 11, 2022 CEN_com 0

Shared by China-Environment-News.com on Facebook DAR ES SALAAM, March 9 (Xinhua) — The government of Tanzania recommended the adoption of the Chinese Juncao technology to promote sustainable agriculture and the livestock industry in the east African nation. Juncao, which literally means “mushroom” and “grass,” can be used, as its name suggests, to grow edible mushrooms, as livestock feed or as a green barrier to stop desertification. Mashimba Ndaki, the Minister for […]

Chinese-built Croatian wind farm a “milestone” in green cooperation

March 11, 2022 CEN_com 0

Watch video: https://youtu.be/hUmRtqIG850 A major Chinese investment in Croatia – a wind farm with an installed capacity of 156 megawatts (MW) and estimated value of 230 million euro ($258 million) – has started operation in a trial mode, the Croatian government said in December 2021. The Senj wind farm is the largest such facility in Croatia featuring 39 stand-alone wind turbines of 4 MW each spread on an area of 65 […]

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: United Arab Emirates builds world’s largest integrated solar power project

March 8, 2022 CEN_com 0

The latest stage of world’s largest integrated solar power generation project has been connected to the national grid of the United Arab Emirates for power generation in the city of Dubai, converting solar energy into electricity for locals around the clock. It is being built by a Chinese enterprise. The first phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park was a 13 MW facility, the second phase added […]

Laos sees its renewable energy capacity as the ‘battery of South East Asia’

March 7, 2022 CEN_com 0

Upgrading infrastructure is a key part of Lao PDR’s strategy to transform the land-locked and from ‘Least Developed Country’ status, a milestone which policymakers hope to achieve by the mid-2020s. Lao PDR’s national plans envision it becoming the Battery of Southeast Asia by exporting electricity to the region. While Lao PDR is a landlocked country, its central location between China, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam means that it plays an […]

Pakistan’s ‘Ten Billion Tree Tsunami’ planting for a greener environment: learning from China

March 6, 2022 CEN_com 0

On September 2, 2018 Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, launched 10 Billions Trees Afforestation Project to plant 10 billion trees in the country including additional one billion seedlings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by 2023. The Billions Trees Afforestation Project (BTAP) of the Pakistani government is the world’s 4th biggest plantation project successfully implemented by Pakistan after China, India and Ethiopia. On March 1, 2022 Pakistan’s Forest Department said it has expedited […]

To eradicate global poverty and cut global carbon emissions, rich nations must change their consumption patterns

February 20, 2022 CEN_com 0

Sometimes the aching injustice of human-caused climate change hits you square between the eyes. A new fact rears up that is potent, emotive and incontrovertible. That is how Carbon Brief introduced an article this week on the massive global inequality in Green House Gas emissions between people in rich and poor countries – an issue that China Environment since its beginning has emphasized as central to tackling global environmental crises. […]

Argentina: world’s southern-most hydroelectric project on path of green progress

February 19, 2022 CEN_com 0

Argentina officially joined the global Belt and Road Initiative on 6 Feb 2022, but China has been providing bilateral support and investment for over 9 years before the historical BRI agreement. One such project is the Santa Cruz Hydroelectric Project, which consists of the two mega dams apart along the Santa Cruz River. China offered bilateral assistance in 2013 when a Chinese-Argentine consortium was formed by the Gezhouba Group Corp […]

China and Papua New Guinea deepen Belt and Road cooperation

February 18, 2022 CEN_com 0

Papua New Guinea formally joined the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018, and was the second Pacific island nation to sign up to the initiative after East Timor. China has expressed its willingness to expand cooperation with Papua New Guinea in such fields as infrastructure, energy resources, agriculture, forestry and fishery, and welcomes more high-quality fishery products from Papua New Guinea to enter the Chinese market, according to Xinhua. PNG’s […]

Understanding China’s latest guidelines for greening the Belt and Road

February 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

The latest guidelines are another important milestone towards greening China’s overseas projects and investments. They are – to our knowledge – the most comprehensive document by any country regulator to guide environmental management of overseas projects by either public or private companies. This January, less than six months after publishing the “Green development guidelines for overseas investment and cooperation”, China’s ministries of commerce and of ecology and environment issued another set of recommendations with […]

Chinese group awarded $2.8bn first phase of Philippines’ Bicol rail scheme

February 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

The Philippines’ Department of Transportation (DOTr) has awarded a $2.8bn contract to a Chinese consortium to build the first phase of the 565km Bicol rail scheme on the country’s main island of Luzon. Philippine National Railways (PNR) is planning to build the link between Metro Manila and the southeastern tip of Luzon, with the first phase to start in the first quarter of this year. In a statement issued on 18 January, […]