Beijing Submits Carbon Reduction Pledge to U.N.
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to begin in Paris late this year, China...
Jun 30, 2015
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to begin in Paris late this year, China...
Apr 13, 2015
China will soon surpass the U.S. as the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gas, according to...
Sep 25, 2014
After Barack Obama called on China to join in leading the world in carbon reduction at the UN...
Jun 4, 2014
Adam Vaughan and Tania Branigan at The Guardian report the claim, later withdrawn, by a high-level...
Jan 20, 2014
A new study investigates the environmental impact of outsourced manufacturing both in China and in...
Nov 6, 2013
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
Nov 1, 2013
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:...
Apr 10, 2013
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,...
Mar 12, 2013
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...
Jul 20, 2012
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...
Nov 13, 2008
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...