Advanced nations must make biggest emission cuts

June 14, 2022 CEN_com 0

Why advanced countries must proportionately make the biggest cuts in carbon emissions – a factual briefing Shared from: Learning from China, Published by John Ross, Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. The article was written in the context of the COP26 UN climate change conference in November 2021. Ross argues that the factual situation is entirely clear. It is the advanced economies which overwhelmingly have above average […]

Why advanced countries must proportionately make the biggest cuts in carbon emissions – a factual briefing

June 14, 2022 CEN_com 0

Shared from: Learning from China, Published by John Ross, Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. The article was written in the context of the COP26 UN climate change conference in November 2021. Ross argues that the factual situation is entirely clear. It is the advanced economies which overwhelmingly have above average per capita CO2 emissions and it is developing economies which overwhelmingly have below average per capita […]

Quantifying national responsibility for excess global CO2 emissions: US worst offender

June 14, 2022 CEN_com 0

Published 2022/06/14 A key study published in September 2020 by the highly respected medical journal The Lancet provides a key to understanding the response to reducing global carbon emissions in terms of environmental justice. The article details a method for quantifying national responsibility for damages related to climate change by looking at national contributions to cumulative CO2 emissions in excess of the planetary boundary of 350 ppm atmospheric CO2 concentration. The approach is rooted […]

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Chinese debt traps in Africa? No, most African debt owed to Western bondholders: says new research

June 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

A joint study by Columbia University (in US) and Oxford University (in UK) refutes claims of Chinese “debt-trap diplomacy” in Africa, and highlights that debt owed to European bondholders is a bigger contributor to debt. In fact: Chinese entities account for only 8% (US$78 billion) of sub-Saharan Africa’s government debt (US$954 billion) and 18% of total external debt, of which ⅓ was owed to bilateral official partners, ⅓ to international […]

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China-Nigeria agricultural cooperation aims for greater food production

June 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

ABUJA, June 11 (Xinhua) — On a farm in the northwest suburb of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, Wang Xuemin, sweating profusely under the hot sun in June, walked along a ridge between rice paddy fields where a big harvest is apparently expected. He stopped from time to time and raised the loudspeaker in his hand, speaking to the crowd following him about the rice varieties, estimated yields and planting techniques used […]

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Building the “New Three Rings”: China’s choice in the face of possible complete decoupling

June 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

“Since the beginning of the 2018 US-China trade war, Western countries have sought to decouple from China in terms of economic, technological, and people-to-people exchanges. According to Cheng Yawen, the recent Russian-Ukrainian conflict marks the end of the US-led globalization wave. Facing the possibility of full decoupling by the West in the future, China urgently needs to make a new choice in its diplomatic and strategic priorities to downgrade the […]

Cuba and China announce patent for new Pan-Corona vaccine

June 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

Cuba and China announce patent for new Pan-Corona vaccine, aiming to protect against future Covid-19 variants several related viruses. The China-Cuba research center in Yongzhou (Hunan province), led by Cuban scientists from the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, developed the vaccine on China’s request; Pan-Corona has the technology of other Cuban Covid-19 vaccines (e.g., Abdala) and Hepatitis B. This was reported by the Cuban newspaper Granma, on 2 June 2022, […]

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Joint venture manufactures Chinese wind turbines in Russia

June 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

In the Russia Federation’s Republic of Tatarstan, there are plans to localise the production of wind turbines from China. The project participants include members of the Russian Association of Wind Power Industry. Companies from Russia and China interested in cooperation have set up a consortium called Architects of the Urals’ Wind, which together with Tatneft, a major oil and gas company based in Tatarstan. (Tatneft is the fifth largest oil […]

Iran plans direct railway link to Shanghai

June 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

Published 2022/10/06 Middle East Briefing reports: Iran is seeking to launch a direct train route to China within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Director General of Commercialization and Associations Affairs Bureau at the Iran Ministry of Roads and Urban Development Amin Taraffo has stated. Iran joined the SCO as a full member last week. Taraffo said that the route will contribute to further strengthening of relations […]

Criticisms of BRI: A Middle East view

June 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

Criticisms of BRI are ‘absurd, malign and unfair mischaracterisations’ Published 2022/06/10 Contrary to Western view, the Belt and Road Initiative is not some form of Chinese “offensive”, much less an insidious instrument of Chinese expansionism. In the following article, Sholto Byrnes writing in the United Arab Emirates newspaper The National, looks at at the nature of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and revisits an August 2020 report by the […]