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...
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to begin in Paris late this year, China...
China will soon surpass the U.S. as the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gas, according to...
After Barack Obama called on China to join in leading the world in carbon reduction at the UN...
Adam Vaughan and Tania Branigan at The Guardian report the claim, later withdrawn, by a high-level...
A new study investigates the environmental impact of outsourced manufacturing both in China and in...
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
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:...
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 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...
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...
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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