This next article in the CDT series on important issues facing China in 2008 focuses on the Environment. See also previous posts on Nationalism, the Developing World, and the Global Financial Crisis. China’s environmental...
Read MoreYale Environment 360 reports that residents of Gaodong in the Manganese Triangle are rising up against the air pollution caused by manganese mining. In early 2008, residents of Gaodong — a hamlet of 278 people nestled in the...
Read MoreJapan and U.S. seek to separate developing countries, such as China and India, into a different category in order to apply emissions cap and targets to these countries. From Bloomberg: China, with an economic boom and no...
Read MoreAccording to Xinhua: China has decided to allocate 500 million yuan (US$73 million) from the central fiscal for rural environment treatment, the Ministry of Environment Protection said Friday. The fund would help save 600...
Read MoreAccording to People’s Daily Online, desertification is costing China 54 billion yuan every year. Tang Yuan, general director of the Research Department for Industry, Transportation and Trade, of the State Council...
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