As pollution worsens and environmental concerns grow, Reuters reports China will spend $16 billion over three years to deal with Beijing’s pollution: Beijing’s government has pledged to improve sewage disposal,...
A new report shows that despite economic growth, China is fulfilling its Cancun pledge to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the near-term. From Bloomberg News: China is meeting a pledge to lower its greenhouse-gas emissions...
Jonathan Watts of the Guardian reports on new figures calculating the environmental cost of China’s economic growth: In one of the longest-term accountings of ecological degradation, the China academy for environmental...
From Environmental Protection news: Survey data presented on Sept. 19 at the Economist Conferences’ Fifth China Branding Roundtable in Beijing indicate that 31 percent of Chinese consumers identify the environment as a...
From the San Francisco Chronicle: This is the new Chinese Dream: cars and suburbs. Like the American counterpart, it is good news for many people — but perhaps bad news for Planet Earth. The same economic boom that is catapulting millions of Chinese each year into the middle class has made their country the world’s […]
From the Standard: The 10 mainland western provinces suffer an annual economic loss of up to 150 billion yuan (HK$141.1 billion) because of environmental deterioration, according to state media. The amount lost accounted for 13 percent of the local yearly gross domestic product, Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday, quoting a government research report. See also […]
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