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Published 2021/12/25 The number of smokestack projects approved by government is expected to have declined this year as China forges ahead with its ambitious climate goals, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on 23 Decxember 2021. The number of such projects going through environmental impact assessments this year is estimated to have decreased by 30 percent year-on-year, Liu Zhiquan, head of the ministry’s environmental impact assessment and emission management department, told […]

Published 2021/11/30 Photo: Chinese and Russian Presidents at informal meeting, July 2017, prior to G20 meeting. China and Russia have been stepping up energy cooperation during the first nine months of the 2021 year, with bilateral energy trade reaching a new high, and the two sides vowed to further enhance energy cooperation in sectors like oil and gas, nuclear, petrochemicals and renewables. Bilateral trade between China and Russia in the energy […]

Published 2021/11/08 A week before the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in October-November 2021 , China submitted its climate targets and implementation plans to the UN. (Plan available at http://www.scio.gov.cn/…/Document/1715506/1715506.htm) China aims to reach CO2 emissions peak by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Many people, however, remain skeptical about whether China will be able to fulfill its commitments. Li Junfeng believes that the country will meet […]

Published 2021/10/22 China’s government said energy-intensive industries like steel, aluminium, cement and oil refining should ensure that more than 30 per cent of their production capacity meets tighter energy efficiency standards by 2025. The goals, published on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), have been set to put China on track to meet its pledge to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by […]

Published 2021/10/13 Joint statement by the Peoples Republic of China and the Russian Federation The Russian Federation and China reaffirm their conviction that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BWC) is essential as a pillar of the international peace and security, and their determination to safeguard the authority and effectiveness of the Convention. Today, as […]

Published 2021/07/14 INTRODUCTION BY CHINA ENVIRONMENT NEWS: The author, Roland Boer, is a Professor of Marxist philosophy in the School of Marxism at Dalian University of Technology in China, and a member of the Communist Party of Australia. He lives in China and is fluent in Mandarin. Earlier, he taught at Renmin University of China and in a number of universities in Australia. He has also been a visiting professor in the […]

Published 2021/05/29 The Western media’s focus on China as “the world’s worst polluter” is devious and dishonest. The purpose of this article is to present the facts. Below China Environment News compares the West as a geopolitical bloc and compares it with China in respect to climate change. When this is done, the basis of a very different narrative emerges. China is of course the world’s most populous nation (although India is […]

Published 2021/05/27 The concept of ecological civilisation serves as a guide for China’s fast-track endeavour to tackle the challenges facing its environment and ecosystems, respond to the public’s aspirations for a pleasant and eco-friendly living environment and promote sustainable development in a balanced manner. It lends an ideological impetus to China’s active involvement in global ecological and environmental governance to become an important player, contributor and leader in the global […]

Published 2021/05/26 The notion of ecological civilization has become central to Chinese efforts to confront and deal with environmental problems. Here, Professor Arran Gare argues that the notion of ecological civilization “establishes a tradition of socialist thought that now has the potential to challenge and replace global capitalism.” However, ecological civilization is characterized by its proponents in different ways. Some see it as simply an adjunct to the existing system […]