Energy & Climate Change~

CHINA LEADS WORLD IN WIND POWER, SOLAR POWER, BIOMASS POWER & HYDROPOWER Among the renewable energy sources, the installed capacity of hydropower, wind power, solar power and biomass power generation has reached 385 million, 299 million, 282 million and 35.34 million kilowatts respectively, all ranking first around the globe.China’s accumulative installed capacity of renewable energy reached 1 billion kilowatts by the end of October 2021, doubling that at the end of 2015, […]

The 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov 13 without making any significant movement forward. There is no clarity on whether limiting the global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius remains a practical objective. One participant probably put it right: Though there was no progress, the process isn’t dead yet. We’re hanging in there. The Western […]

We will continue to develop a green Silk Road, encourage businesses to fulfill their social responsibility, learn from environmental, social, and governance concepts, and build more eco-friendly projects with a high standard, in a bid to pursue the green development of the Belt and Road cooperation. Han Wenxiu, CPC Central Committee Statement on BRI at press conference on guiding principles of 6th plenary session of 19th CPC Central Committee, by […]

BEIJING, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — China on Tuesday summarized in a landmark resolution the sweeping, historic and transformative changes in its ecological and environmental protection endeavors. The resolution, adopted at the sixth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee held in Beijing last week, coincides with the country’s renewed version of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — a green BRI, resolving to “make green a defining feature of […]

Western governments have tried to blame China and India for the COP26 flop. But it was the rich capitalist states of Europe and North America that refused to accept the just demands of the world’s poorest nations, leaving us still on course for disaster. When the final gavel went down on COP26, the British government minister Alok Sharma had tears in his eyes. “I apologize for the way this process has […]

BEIJING : China’s major coal consuming industries, including power, steel, cement and coal chemical production, could hit peak use of the fossil fuel around 2024, a government research report said on Wednesday. China has pledged to bring its carbon emissions to a peak by 2030 and to start phasing down coal use after 2026. The four industrial sectors made up more than 86 per cent of total coal consumption and […]

The bloc of four countries called ‘BASIC’ – comprising Brazil, South Africa, India and China – sought a fresh long-term climate finance goal at the recent UN-led COP26 summit on climate change in Glasgow, Scotland. In a statement presented by India’s environment minister, Bhupender Yadav, on behalf of the Basic countries during the opening of the COP26, said the bloc highlighted a road map for the delivery of the promised […]