Energy & Climate Change~ – Page 46 – China Environment News .Com

China to have unified electricity market system by 2025

January 29, 2022 CEN_com 0

China aims to initially build a unified electricity market system by 2025 to enable optimized power resource allocation in a wider scope and improve the stability and flexibility of the power system, according to guidelines released Friday (2022-01-28) “Efforts will be made to enhance the adaptability of the electricity market to a high proportion of new energy sources, and for the creation of innovate mechanisms to carry out green power […]

Glacier retreat accelerates global chemical weathering

January 29, 2022 CEN_com 0

Chinese and foreign researchers have evaluated the global chemical weathering rates beneath glaciers for the first time, revealing temporal and spatial variations and influence mechanisms. Chemical weathering, also known as decomposition or decay, is the breakdown of rock by chemical mechanisms, and it usually changes the chemical composition of the rock through carbonation, hydration, hydrolysis or oxidation. Researchers from China’s Northwest University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Pennsylvania State […]

China overtakes UK as world’s largest offshore wind power provider

January 28, 2022 CEN_com 0

China built three times as much offshore wind-farm capacity as the rest of the world put together during 2021 – and figures show wide disparities between European nations’ rates of wind farm construction Updated information from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that during 2021, China provided more than three-quarters of the world’s added capacity in offshore wind-power generation. A global total of 10.5 gigawatts (GW) capacity was added, of which […]

Geothermal green heating part of China’s decarbonization plans

January 27, 2022 CEN_com 0

“China is adopting geothermal because geothermal district heating is by far the most economic means of heating available … It also answers China’s fundamental policy of carbon neutrality and combating air pollution.” City of Xian geothermal district heating The city of Xian’s geothermal district heating in Shaanxi Province China serves as an example of the country’s decarbonization plans. China’s commitment that it would strive to peak its carbon dioxide emissions […]

Can the US seriously blame China for climate change?

January 26, 2022 CEN_com 0

At UN COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, the U.S. attempted to displace blame onto China for climate change, which was caused disproportionately by the advanced capitalist powers. While the U.S. media often calls China the biggest carbon emitter, this tends to leave out both per-capita emissions and the fact that these same countries have outsourced so much of their manufacturing to China. Rarely mentioned is how China is confronting the […]

China makes significant strides in modernization drive

January 26, 2022 CEN_com 0

Provincial-level regions across China have hosted their annual legislative and political consultative meetings in recent weeks, underlining sci-tech innovation, common prosperity, further opening up and green development, as the country works in full throttle to achieve its second centenary goal. The year 2021 was a milestone year for China, marking a fresh start. Upon completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the world’s most populous country […]

Geothermal power generation in China signals green future

January 25, 2022 CEN_com 0

China, less than a decade after beginning its program to deploy geothermal energy on a massive scale, now has the largest amount of geothermal district heating of any country in the world. Cornell University Introduction – geothermal energy potential in China According to research by Chinese scientists (1, 2) geothermal resources can provide green, low-carbon, and renewable clean energy, with abundant reserves and massive potential for application. Use of geothermal […]

London ‘systematically and persistently breaching air pollution limits’ since 2010, says European court

January 25, 2022 CEN_com 0

In March 2021, the UK Westminster regime was found guilty by the European Court of Justice of “systematically and persistently” breaching air pollution limits. EU Judges also found that the country failed to see through its legal obligation to put in place sufficient plans to tackle the problem of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution. London has reported illegal levels of air pollution since 2010 and it contributed to around 6,000 excess deaths in the capital in 2019, according […]

Far East transnational park for endangered tigers and leopards

January 24, 2022 CEN_com 0

China and Russia collaborate on huge Far East transnational park for endangered tigers and leopards Wild leopards and tigers are roaming in the far eastern wilderness again thanks to an historic China–Russia collaboration for a transnational park covering more than 1.7 million hectares. The China-Russia border region, where China’s Heilongjiang and Jilin provices, border Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is home to the largest wild Siberian tiger and […]

China and Russia collaborate on huge Far East transnational park for endangered tigers and leopards

January 24, 2022 CEN_com 0

Wild leopards and tigers are roaming in the far eastern wilderness again thanks to an historic China–Russia collaboration for a transnational park covering more than 1.7 million hectares. The China-Russia border region, where China’s Heilongjiang and Jilin provices, border Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is home to the largest wild Siberian tiger and Amur leopard populations in the world. A major success in protecting these large cat species […]