As the U.N. COP28 Climate Summit is underway in the United Arab Emirates, bringing together thousands of political leaders and environmental activists, one topic that is sure to get little attention there is the environmental...
In a recent essay, Lu Dewen (吕德文, Lǚ Déwén)—a sometimes controversial Wuhan University sociologist whose research focuses on rural governance—argues that bureaucratic formalism, meaningless busywork, and technological hegemony...
As an extreme heat wave across Earth’s northern hemisphere fuels record-breaking temperatures in China, Europe, and North America, U.S. special envoy for climate change John Kerry is visiting Beijing this week for high-level...
A crackdown on rural Jiangxi’s lithium sector that might snarl global supply chains has cast a spotlight on the conflict between rural economic development and environmental protection. Earlier this week, investigation teams...
At the halfway point of the COP27 international climate-change summit, there are encouraging signs that China and the U.S. may put aside geopolitical tensions in order to collectively stave off existential catastrophe for the...
The Environmental Justice Foundation, an environmental NGO based in London, released a new report, titled “The Ever-Widening Net: Mapping the Scale, Nature and Corporate Structures of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing...
Chinese officials have warned John Kerry that deteriorating U.S.-China ties will impact bilateral cooperation on climate change. Kerry, who was in Tianjin for preliminary talks with his Chinese counterparts in preparation for...
China’s economic planners have wrested control over climate policy from bureaucrats in the environmental department, potentially jeopardizing efforts to meet emissions pledges made by Xi Jinping before the United Nation’s...
A new proposal put before the National People’s Congress realigns the structure of the...
China’s central leaders have been waging an official “war on pollution” for nearly four years,...
Almost exactly two years after Premier Li Keqiang declared “war on pollution” in his...
On Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Paris to attend the United Nations COP21...
In January, just two months after Xi Jinping and Barack Obama jointly pledged to limit carbon...
Following the release of new State Council regulations seeking to promote more ecologically...
This week’s landmark agreement on climate change between the U.S. and China, which promises...
Following the announcement yesterday of a “game-changing” bilateral U.S.-China...
Just before hosting a joint press conference following APEC meetings in Beijing, Xi Jinping and...
As heavy-smog season 2014-2015 begins in China, AFP reports that PM2.5 readings in Hebei province...
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