Civil Society Advocates Face Charges, Interrogations
Wu Rongrong is a women’s rights activist who was detained for over a month along with four...
Friends of Nature
PX Protests, Hollow Victories and Forced Demolitions
Last weekend, following an increasingly familiar pattern, protests in the coastal city of Ningbo won the promised suspension of a controversial paraxylene (PX) plant. At China Media Project, David Bandurski discussed the role of...
“Protecting China’s Natural Habitat Feels Like a Game”
In a new short documentary, ‘Hopeful’, Jonah Kessel shows the work of environmental NGO Friends of Nature in using new laws to hold companies accountable for their pollution. The film focuses on a Yunnan...
Concerns Grow Over Environmental Costs Of Apple Products
Tongxin, near Shanghai, is the site of a factory run by Apple supplier Kaedar. Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz found the villagers initially eager to talk about pollution from the plant, but this changed after local authorities...
Apple Auditing Supply Plants for Pollution
Apple has admitted to pollution from more than half a dozen links in its Chinese supply chain during promised meetings with the organisations behind a damning report into the company’s environmental impact. From Caixin...
Beijing’s Ski Slopes as Thirsty as 8,300 Households
Beijing badly lacks water, but much of the available supply is slurped up by luxury apartments and bottling plants. Friends of Nature researchers have recently drawn attention to the additional drain of the million tons a year...
Li Keqiang Sets Out Energy and Sustainability Priorities
Newly published comments made by Vice Premier Li Keqiang last December outline China’s energy policy priorities, and appear to confirm the introduction of new pollution taxes as part of the country’s 12th Five Year...
Pioneer of China Environmental NGOs Dies
Liang Congjie, founder of Friends of Nature, China’s first environmental NGO, and grandson of Qing Dynasty reformer Liang Qichao, has died at the age of 78. From Reuters: Liang, a senior member of the Chinese...
Subscribe to CDT
SUPPORT CDT
CDT EBOOKS
Giving Assistant
Anti-censorship Tools
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
