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Islamabad : Pakistan and China are going to turn China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into a model for ecological civilisation aiming at restoration of the natural environment in the region. According to the details, a joint committee has been formed to work towards ecological civilisation that also comprises Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam. An official of the climate change ministry said the concept of […]

CLIMATE CHANGE MYTHS ABOUT CHINA DEBUNKED The following article, from the German news service Deutsche Welle, (DW) reiterates what China Environment News has been writing about since we started 18 months ago. It’s very encouraging to see the one of the largest and most influential broadcasters in Europe take such an unbiased and objective view of the role of China is climate change. DW is the German federal state-owned international […]

Is Bitcoin an example of the worst excesses of rampant neo-liberalism? Patrick Li’s Bitcoin mine used to be filled with the persistent hum of rows and rows of computers, all busy around the clock solving the complicated mathematical puzzles needed to keep the world’s most popular cryptocurrency operational. Li, 39, had set up shop in the northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which once welcomed businesses like his to use the […]

Volvo is 100% owned by Geely Automobiles in China. The founder of Geely personally owns 10% of the common shares of Daimler Benz AG in Germany. Geely is the largest privately-owned automotive manufacturer in China today. Three of Geely’s people sit in the Daimler Benz AG Board of Directors. It is understood that there is now or will soon be a technical co-operation arrangement between Geely and Mercedes-Benz in manufacturing […]

An analysis of Chinese-backed coal power from 2014-2020 One constantly sees claims in the Western media that China is massively expanding coal fired power plants around the world. The facts, as always, are not quite what the handful of Western regimes claim. On 16 June 2021, the Green BRI Center released a study of overseas coal power investments in the BRI with Chinese participation identified significant cancellation or suspension of […]

Central Asia’s largest wind power project is an example of international co-financing implemented by a Chinese construction company. Does this example provide lessons to support the green energy transition of emerging economies by mobilizing international finance? Fossil fuel production constitutes 17 percent of oil and gas rich Central Asian Kazakhstan’s GDP. Despite this Kazakhstan announced the country is planning to shift to 50 percent renewable energy by 2050. To give some perspective, in 2015, […]