China-built UAE solar farm largest on Earth

January 28, 2024 CEN_com 0

Chinese engineers complete largest solar farm on Earth in UAE The world’s largest single-site solar power plant – a flagship project under China’s Belt and Road Initiative – was inaugurated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), days ahead of the UN climate change conference Cop28 in Dubai, in November-December 2023. However the project had already commenced supplying clean, emissions-free electricity to the UAE national grid in May 2023. The UAE became a […]

Protect China’s seagrass meadows

January 27, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s threatened seagrass meadows: scientists call for Seagrass Conservation and Restoration Plan Seagrass meadows are crucial coastal habitats that contribute to biodiversity, food security, and climate mitigation. However seagrasses, once common along China’s coastlines, have declined by more than 80% of the seagrass meadows in China’s coastal waters and six seagrass species have disappeared. Even the remaining seagrass meadows are now in decline, and in August 2022 the dugong, a […]

China enhances agricultural sustainability

January 26, 2024 CEN_com 0

China enhances agricultural sustainability and farm incomes while maintaining national crop production on existing croplands though crop switching The Green Revolution of the 1960s brought unprecedented increases in global food supply to meet a rapidly rising demand. However, the promotion of relatively few high-yielding crops and the accompanying input-intensive practices — such as fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation — used to grow those crops has led to serious compromises for nutritional […]

Ignore China “economic collapse” stories

January 8, 2024 CEN_com 0

The Western news media is full of headlines about China’s ‘economic collapse’ — ignore them. Once again, the Western media Establishment, and sadly some on the “left”, are talking up an impending economic disaster in China, when the truth is quite the opposite, as John Ross writing in Learning From China (below) clearly shows. Indeed, this appears to be another example of Western “projection” (i.e. attributing their own negative traits […]

Russia to double renewable energy generation

January 7, 2024 CEN_com 0

Russia will double the capacity of renewable energy generation by 2050. By 2050, demand for hydrocarbons is expected to decrease, but new low-carbon energy markets are already opening up. Ilya Torosov, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia, said this at COP 28 in Dubai. According to him, Russia focuses on the development of new highly efficient industries, products with high added value. The export sector for hydrogen production […]

China: 100 carbon-peaking pilot projects

January 7, 2024 CEN_com 0

China to conduct carbon-peaking pilot projects in 100 cities and zones. On October 20, 2023, China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) published the “National carbon-peaking pilot construction plan” based on the requirements of the “Action plan for carbon dioxide peaking before 2030”. The National Carbon Peak Pilot Construction Plan is a cross-sectoral policy document covering the period of 2023-2030, that aims to explore a viable […]

China and Uruguay elevate bilateral relations

January 6, 2024 CEN_com 0

On the fifth anniversary of Uruguay’s participation in the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), China and Uruguay announced they will upgrade bilateral ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership during talks between the two heads of state, and agreed to deepen cooperation in a range of aspects including trade, agriculture and cultural exchanges, as well as the co-construction of the BRI.  The two heads of state witnessed the signing of the […]

China space weather observatory

January 6, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s space weather observatory is largest network of ground-based monitoring on Earth China has achieved a world first in space weather monitoring, with the completion of the largest network of ground-based observatories on Earth, stretching across the country in two bands from north to south and east to west. The Chinese Meridian Project, led by the National Space Science Centre (NSSC) in Beijing, took eight years and more than 1.5 billion yuan (US$212 million) to build […]

The Dialectics of Ecology: An Introduction

January 5, 2024 CEN_com 0

The following is the introduction to John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Ecology: Society and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2024). All nature is in a perpetual state of flux.… There is nothing clearly defined in nature.… Everything is bound up with everything else. Denis Diderot1 As Harvard ecologist and Marxian theorist Richard Levins observed, “perhaps the first investigation of a complex object as a system was the masterwork of Karl Marx, Das […]

Twenty more countries apply to join BRICS+

January 4, 2024 CEN_com 0

Over 20 more countries apply to join the now 10 member BRICS+ group. From 1 January 2024, the existing five member BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grew to become BRICS PLUS, with the addition of five new members – Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. BRICS Ambassador at large, South Africa’s Anil Sooklal, has revealed that there is a huge demand from […]