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China to further improve forest coverage and biodiversity by 2025

October 20, 2021 CEN_com 0

China will take more affirmative actions to increase forest cover and boost biodiversity by 2025, China’s forest and wildlife conservation authority announced. The announcement was made at a press briefing by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration(NFGA), during which NFGA officials responded to reporters’ questions on the country’s 14th Five-Year-Plan (2021-2025) about ecosystem restoration and wildlife conservation. According to NFGA deputy director Li Chunliang, China aims to increase forest coverage […]

China’s development of a carbon-neutral electricity system: 43% of electricity will be solar by 2060

October 20, 2021 CEN_com 0

Researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing, Nankai University in Tianjin, Renmin University of China in Beijing and Harvard University in the USA have found that solar energy could provide 43.2% of China’s electricity demands in 2060 at less than two-and-a-half U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour. For comparison, coal power tariffs in China ranged 3.6 to 6.5 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2019. The research was published as the cover article of the Proceedings of the […]

Mission Impossible: China’s South-North Water Transfer Project

October 16, 2021 CEN_com 0

Introduction by Kelvin Kwok Freshwater is an important resource in many countries especially developing ones, and many people in these regions do not really have access to it in daily life. Unfortunately, this issue tends to receive much less attention compared to, say, air pollution, partly because it seems less relevant to the buzzwords like global warming, but also because it does not really affect the most developed countries that are […]

How Chinese infrastructure projects let nature be nature

October 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

“On a beautiful day, you could see various animals, zebras, gazelles, giraffes, even elephants,” Fauzia Hussein, a passenger on the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, described the wildlife she observed along the route. Since it opened to traffic in 2017, the Mombasa-Nairobi railway has been crossed by countless wild animals migrating between north and south, bringing a spectacle of life to the vast grasslands of East Africa, while on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau in […]

Melting the Roof of the World: Impact of Climate Change on the Tibet High Plateau, China

October 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

High up in the Tibet Autonomous Region and western China lies the Tibetan Plateau, an imposing landmass of huge importance to Asia. Now, climate change is threatening to melt its glaciers. What does this mean for China and south Asia? Nicknamed the ‘Roof of the World’, the Tibetan Plateau, or 青藏高原 (Qīng–Zàng Gāoyuán), far surpasses Mount Olympus in height and grandeur. Standing proudly at 4500 metres above sea level and surrounded by […]

Kunming Declaration – Full Text

October 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

China Environment editorial note: The Kunming Declaration (see full text in English here) was adopted today. Its main purpose is to reaffirm the global political commitment to tackling the biodiversity crisis, and continue the process of coming to an agreement on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The text is agreed by ministers of all parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which includes just about every country, except the […]

Xi Jinping unveils new measures at COP15 to strive for a beautiful China

October 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a deep reverence for Nature while addressing the leaders’ summit of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) via a video link on Tuesday. President Xi said that people need to respect Nature, follow Nature’s laws and protect Nature, so as to build a homeland of harmonious coexistence between man and Nature. Beijing on Tuesday […]

Kunming Declaration adopted at COP15

October 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

Parties to the United Nations Biological Diversity Convention have adopted the Kunming Declaration, as a two-day high-level segment of the 15th meeting of the conference of the parties to the convention, or COP 15, concluded on Wednesday. A copy of the full text of the Kunming Declaration is available at this link: https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/0b20/847a/a9bf5b31366057821460aa68/kunmingdeclaration-en.docx The largest UN gathering on biodiversity in a decade, COP 15 is tasked with elaborating on the […]

French Mathematician Laurent Lafforgue joins Huawei team

October 13, 2021 CEN_com 0

Laurent Lafforgue, a famous French mathematician and winner of the mathematics Fields Medal has joined the Huawei team, making it stronger in terms of research. In recent years, Lafforgue’s work on topos theory has led him to develop a collaboration with the research teams of Huawei France. The Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) is an advanced research institute in mathematics, theoretical physics and all related sciences dedicated to fundamental research. Laurent Lafforgue, mathematician and […]

Beautiful China: Promoting ecological civilization with concrete action

October 13, 2021 CEN_com 0

Ensuring a balance between environmental protection and economic development is a challenge for the world, especially for China, a country which has undergone fast-paced development. On July 1, China announced the realization of Xiaokang society, or “a moderately prosperous society in all respects,” with its GDP soaring to about $15.7 trillion last year from 67.9 billion yuan in 1952. Meanwhile, public satisfaction with the ecological environment reached 89.5 percent, an increase […]