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China donates solar photovoltaic power systems to 5,000 Cuban households

May 26, 2021 CEN_com 0

China will provide solar photovoltaic power systems to 5,000 Cuban families living in complex terrain, with a supplies delivery ceremony held Monday in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. Multilateralism and global cooperation are the only choice to cope with climate change, said a Chinese official at the South-South Cooperation on climate change event between China and Cuba. China has always attached great importance to tackling climate change, implemented national strategies to […]

Chinese investment in renewables soars under Belt & Road initiative – Greenpeace study

May 26, 2021 CEN_com 0

A 2019 report by environmental NGO Greenpeace found that China’s Belt & Road Initiative has led an investment surge in energy infrastructure in the regions covered by the plan – particularly south and Southeast Asia – over the five years to 2014 to 2019. Investment in Belt & Road countries has supported 12.6 GW of new wind and solar power generation capacity. That compares with just 450 MW in the […]

Ecological cooperation a key part of Belt and Road Initiative

May 26, 2021 CEN_com 0

China has made ecological cooperation a key part of #BeltandRoad Initiative #BRI, with a number of green action initiatives “covering wide-ranging efforts in green infrastructure, green energy, green transport, green finance”: former Bangladeshi minister xhtxs.cn/eb7 DHAKA, April 27 (Xinhua) — China has made ecological cooperation a key part of the Belt and Road Initiative, Dilip Barua, former Bangladeshi Minister of Industries, said here Sunday. “In the face of unprecedented challenges in global governance, the […]

Tiananmen Protests Reading List from Qiao Collective

May 25, 2021 CEN_com 0

As the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests approaches, we can expect the usual Western campaign of exaggeration and outright lies to build to a crescendo yet again. The Qiao Collective has curated a short reading list that provides an alternative perspective on the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Qiao Collective has written a short reflection on the protests that is not meant to provide […]

Measuring CO2 production unfair for developing nations

May 25, 2021 CEN_com 0

Measuring CO2 emissions solely against production unfair for developing countries. WASHINGTON, April 24, 2021 (Xinhua) Calculating CO2 emissions solely on the basis of production “disproportionately” penalizes developing countries which quite naturally have a higher carbon content in their economic structures, a renowned U.S. expert has said. “What I am hoping for rather is consumption-based accounting of emissions also being brought to the fore as a means to calculate emissions reduction […]

Germany’s ‘climate club’ proposal

May 25, 2021 CEN_com 0

On May 22, German Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz proposed the formation of an EU “climate club” that offsets trade frictions and synthesizes climate protection strategies with Washington, Tokyo and Beijing. “It is a wise thing not just to discuss about how the European Union can do this and how we could avoid to have difficulties in the competition on the global market afterwards,” remarked Scholz after talks with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio […]

Editorial Statement

May 24, 2021 CEN_com 0

About China Environment News Global environmental crisis is the product of centuries of Western exploitation of the land, natural resources and labour of the Global South. Seriously tackling the global ecological crisis must involve a global redistribution of power and wealth from the West to the Global South. We unequivocally acknowledge this will require nationally appropriate forms of socialist state power. Ecological civilization China Environment News was created in late 2019 to contribute towards […]