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To eradicate global poverty and cut global carbon emissions, rich nations must change their consumption patterns

February 20, 2022 CEN_com 0

Sometimes the aching injustice of human-caused climate change hits you square between the eyes. A new fact rears up that is potent, emotive and incontrovertible. That is how Carbon Brief introduced an article this week on the massive global inequality in Green House Gas emissions between people in rich and poor countries – an issue that China Environment since its beginning has emphasized as central to tackling global environmental crises. […]

Rich nations must reduce consumption to end global poverty

February 20, 2022 CEN_com 0

Rich nations must reduce consumption to eradicate global poverty & cut global carbon emissions Published 2022/02/20 We often hear from Western commentators that actions taken by Europe or the US are meaningless when compared to the industrial emissions of China, or the effects of rapid population growth in Africa. New research exposes these claims as wilfully ignorant, at best”. Eradicating ‘extreme poverty’ would raise global emissions by less than 1% A […]

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Argentina: world’s southern-most hydroelectric project on path of green progress

February 19, 2022 CEN_com 0

Argentina officially joined the global Belt and Road Initiative on 6 Feb 2022, but China has been providing bilateral support and investment for over 9 years before the historical BRI agreement. One such project is the Santa Cruz Hydroelectric Project, which consists of the two mega dams apart along the Santa Cruz River. China offered bilateral assistance in 2013 when a Chinese-Argentine consortium was formed by the Gezhouba Group Corp […]

China and Papua New Guinea deepen Belt and Road cooperation

February 18, 2022 CEN_com 0

Papua New Guinea formally joined the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018, and was the second Pacific island nation to sign up to the initiative after East Timor. China has expressed its willingness to expand cooperation with Papua New Guinea in such fields as infrastructure, energy resources, agriculture, forestry and fishery, and welcomes more high-quality fishery products from Papua New Guinea to enter the Chinese market, according to Xinhua. PNG’s […]

EU-China cooperation on environmental governance

February 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

Dimitri de Boer knows a lot about advancing environmental rule of law and rising to environmental challenges. As chief representative of the China office of NGO ClientEarth, he focuses on issues ranging from pollution control to biodiversity protection, climate change and a green post-pandemic economic recovery. Founded in 2008, ClientEarth is an environmental law charity with offices in London, Brussels, Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, and Beijing. In China it focuses on […]

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New Zealand defies wrath of Anglosphere to sign major new trade deal with China

February 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

New Zealand – China Free Trade Agreement updated and ratified China and New Zealand have ratified an upgrade of their long-standing trade deal. The FTA was first signed with New Zealand in 2008 and it was the first such agreement between China and a Western country. Negotiations to upgrade it started in 2016. On 15 February 2022, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said the two nations had completed domestic approval procedures and […]

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Understanding China’s latest guidelines for greening the Belt and Road

February 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

The latest guidelines are another important milestone towards greening China’s overseas projects and investments. They are – to our knowledge – the most comprehensive document by any country regulator to guide environmental management of overseas projects by either public or private companies. This January, less than six months after publishing the “Green development guidelines for overseas investment and cooperation”, China’s ministries of commerce and of ecology and environment issued another set of recommendations with […]

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Omicron variant: New York City spike also infected wild deer population

February 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

China Environment has previously reported that COVID-19 was rife among populations of wild white-tailed deer in the United States and that the virus had established ‘reservoirs’ in the wild deer population. See Corona virus rife in common US deer and Coronavirus infections increase among deer in US, new study shows. Update: Delta variant in imported hampsters sparks out break in Hong Kong Genomic analysis of viral samples from the hampsters (Syrian […]

Chinese group awarded $2.8bn first phase of Philippines’ Bicol rail scheme

February 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

The Philippines’ Department of Transportation (DOTr) has awarded a $2.8bn contract to a Chinese consortium to build the first phase of the 565km Bicol rail scheme on the country’s main island of Luzon. Philippine National Railways (PNR) is planning to build the link between Metro Manila and the southeastern tip of Luzon, with the first phase to start in the first quarter of this year.  In a statement issued on 18 January, […]

Researchers trace large-scale understory biomass across China’s forests

February 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — Chinese researchers have traced understory biomass and its allocation across China’s forests, according to a research article recently published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. Understory vegetation, generally consisting of the understory shrub layer, herbaceous layer and ground cover moss layer, is a significant component of any forest ecosystem and plays a vital role in biodiversity maintenance and the ecosystem’s carbon cycle. Biomass […]