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China’s Antarctic Program and the Antarctic Treaty System

January 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

On 4 January 2022 China’s CGTN media network posted a short video announcing that a team of Chinese scientists has arrived at the Zhongshan Station and the Great Wall Station to conduct the 38th expedition in Antarctica to carry out scientific research. The link to the CGTN video is: https://youtu.be/YESKwlAEOJA In this post we provide background information on China’s Antarctic Program and the Antarctic Treaty System, of which China is […]

China-Iran to implement comprehensive cooperation plan for energy and infrastructure

January 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

China and Iran announced the launch of the implementation of a 25-year comprehensive cooperation plan following talks on 14 Jan 2022, between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian in Wuxi, east China’s Jiangsu Province. Cooperation between the two nations will cover areas such as energy, infrastructure, production capacity, science and technology, and medical and health care. The two countries also agreed to expand […]

Syria joins the Belt and Road Initiative

January 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

Syria on 11 July 2022 joined the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which will help the Middle Eastern nation create new opportunities for cooperation with China and other countries, to help rebuild amid wars, Western sanctions, and the Covid pandemic. Syria’s admission ceremony took place during the signing of a memorandum of understanding at the Planning and International Cooperation Commission in the Syrian capital Damascus. It was attended by […]

Nicaragua along the Belt and Road

January 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

This excellent article, republished from China’s Global Times locates the recent inauguration of Daniel Ortega for a further term as President of Nicaragua, and the increasingly close ties between China and the Central American nation, within the overall context of a resurgence of the left throughout Latin America. This is occurring in the teeth of intense US pressure and hostility and, the article notes, the Latin American left is characterised by a […]

China No 1 publisher of net-zero emission studies

January 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

CHINA SURGES FORWARD IN RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH China has a clear lead in the publication of research over the past two decades related to the world’s climate goal of reaching net-zero emissions, a recent report has found. Its performance is also noteworthy in terms of patents that serve the goal. The conclusion was reached based on an analysis of over 1.6 million research publications between 2001 and 2020, as well […]

Eighty seven percent of overseas coal power financed by G7 and other advanced economies

January 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

A recent Boston University study published in July 2021 found that Japanese, Korean and Western financiers bankroll 87 % of overseas coal power plants globally, contrary to the misconception that most new funding comes from public financing entities in China. In fact, before China banned any new funding of overseas coal projects, China accounted for only 13 % of financing for overseas coal power projects. The private sector from the G7 and other […]

China’s West-East Gas Pipeline: Journey to the East

January 1, 2022 CEN_com 0

Kelvin Kwok shared a link to China Environment News on Facebook. “China should shut all the coal power plants”, say many. Well yes, that is a very valid statement, if we ignore any underlying hostility/racism or comically sincere expectations from ivory towers. Focusing on the reality in China, you will know coal is indeed used a lot, especially for heating during winters, and the country’s energy structure needs to be reformed […]

Omicron spread shows China got it right on Covid-19 strategy, top disease expert says

December 26, 2021 CEN_com 0

Wuhan lockdown was landmark decisive move that drastically contained the spread of the coronavirus in China, Zhong Nanshan says Expert credits rapid testing and universal vaccination coverage, along with stringent controls with country’s success Foreign nations should realise by now that China’s so-called over the top approach in handling the pandemic was the correct one, the country’s top respiratory expert has said, as the Omicron variant spreads around the world at […]

Turnover of China’s carbon market tops 5.8 billion yuan

December 26, 2021 CEN_com 0

Xinhua, 23 Dec 2021 – shared by China-Environment-News.com on Facebook Background from CEN: China’s national emissions trading system (ETS) was launched in July 2021. As the largest carbon market in the world, China’s system is more than ten times larger than that of the US state of California. The Chinese scheme has more than doubled the share of global emissions covered under an WTS , and covering approximately one-tenth of global […]

US climate commitments in chaos – is Biden’s “Build Back Better” policy dead?

December 22, 2021 CEN_com 0

At the Glasgow climate meeting in November 2021, US President Biden was keen to promote the US “commitment” to the Paris Agreement (which the US regime had only recently “rejoined”) aimed at preventing some of the worst effects of global warming. Much was made at the time by the Biden regime and its acolytes of the claim that the US would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to 50% below […]