The Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, in June 1972, was the first major United Nations event featuring the People’s Republic of China. It helped shape the country’s understanding of environmental issues ever since. In 2022, China was set to host a major UN environmental conference, after a delay of more than a year due to Covid-19. The 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD […]
Editor’s note: During the 2021 Zhongguancun Forum, which is held in Beijing from September 24 to 28, 2021, CGTN spoke to China President of Springer Nature Niels Peter Thomas to discuss how Chinese scientific research has become more pronounced on the world stage over the past two decades. Springer Nature is a leading research, educational and professional publisher, which owns high-profile scientific journal Nature. Beijing tops the Nature Index 2021 Science […]
Daishan No.4 Wind Farm in in Zhoushan City, east China’s Zhejiang Province. /China General Nuclear Power Corporation Among China’s arduous efforts to honor its commitment to peaking carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, developing offshore wind power, one of the key technologies to meet the goals, is of great significance. According to a report released by the Global Wind Energy Council on Thursday, China […]
Chinese researchers have found that microbial diversity is crucial for ecological balance and stability in arid and extreme arid regions, according to a recent research article published in the journal Nature Communications. The relative importance of plant and soil microbial diversity for ecosystem multifunctionality varies along environmental gradients. The researchers from the School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University in northwest China’s Gansu Province, have studied multiple soil function traits across […]
Beijing demands the overseas companies obey the local government, after protests outside a Chinese mine that had ignored local orders – after Congolese authorities suspended six small Chinese firms’ operations over illegal mining and destruction of the environment. The Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC) has more than half of the world’s known reserves of cobalt ore, and with the Zambian copper belts, the second largest global reserve of copper, […]
On Aug. 17, 2021, China’s National Development and Reform Commission issued the “Barometer of 2021 Half-Year Regional Energy Consumption Intensity & Total Amount” – also known as “double control.” The double control policy provides a clear alert level of energy consumption intensity reduction and amount reduction. In accordance with China’s Paris Agreement pledge, the policy presents a key step for China moving toward the carbon neutrality target. There is strict control of electricity supply […]
Presidents of Angola, Vietnam and Ireland speak out Using apocalyptic images, three presidents and seven foreign ministers warned Thursday that a warmer world is also a more violent one. At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the U.N.’s most powerful body to do more to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all U.N. peacekeeping operations. The leaders […]
Ruoergai Wetland in Ruoergai County, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, with a complex and diverse geographical environment, is the world’s largest well-preserved alpine Sphagnum bog, occupying an area of 4,094.31 hectares. It is also the habitat for many rare and endangered species of animals and migratory birds. However, desertification has been a serious problem here. The overgraze, plateau environment and other reasons have made vegetation restoration very difficult. Thanks to years […]
SHANGHAI, Sept. 22, 2021 — Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange (SEEE) has issued the first carbon neutral petroleum certificate to Sinopec, Cosco Shipping and China Eastern Airlines at the certification ceremony for China’s first shipment of full life cycle carbon-neutral petroleum held on September 22 in Shanghai, China. “Carbon neutral” is a term used to describe carbon-based fuels that when burned will not increase carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. These fuels neither contribute to nor reduce the […]
Using mathematical models, a team of four Chinese scientists has argued that the first case of Covid-19 appeared between April and November 2019 in the northeastern US, long before the outbreak in Wuhan, China. “The calculation results show that the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States has a high probability of beginning to spread around September 2019,” says the 14-page paper published on Wednesday at ChinaXiv, a repository operated by the National Science […]
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