carbon footprint

China, COP28 Post Mixed Progress in Curbing Climate Change

This week in Dubai, after two weeks of negotiations among representatives from almost 200 countries, the COP28 climate summit closed on a “historic” note: an agreement that calls for “transitioning away” from fossil fuels in...

China Contributes to Slowing Carbon Emission Growth

China’s slowing economy and expanding hydropower capacity helped global carbon emissions growth slow to 1.4% in 2012, less than half the average increase over the previous ten years. From the BBC’s Matt McGrath:...

China’s Economy Must Clean Up, Slow Down

At Foreign Affairs, Thomas N. Thompson challenges the view that severe pollution is a necessary price of China’s economic development: The dangers of China’s environmental degradation go well beyond the country’s borders,...

China’s Ragtag Shale Army Far from Revolution

China’s vast estimated shale gas reserves may hold the eventual promise of lower-carbon energy—at least compared with the country’s current diet of coal—and freedom from the need to secure oil supplies from the...

China’s Per Capita Carbon Emissions Match EU’s

According to a new report (.pdf) by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, China’s per capita carbon emissions have reached a similar level to the EU’s. Global total emissions continue to rise, with the...

Cutting Emissions in Rural China

Professor Jiang Gaoming discusses how farmers in rural China could use straw to reduce China’s carbon footprint in his China Dialogue article: China’s population is mainly rural, and if that population realises its full...

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