China began hosting the current round of UN sponsored climate talks in Beijing last Sunday. China Daily reports on the opening of the talks: The 2011 China International Forum on Climate Change opened in Beijing on Sunday to...
Read MoreNew research suggests that sulphur emissions from China’s coal-fuelled power stations have masked global warming in recent years. From The Guardian: The last decade was the hottest on record and the 10 warmest years have...
Read MoreChina Daily carries a warning of serious and sustained decline in China’s grain production: Tang Huajun, deputy dean of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), said a 5 to 10 percent crop loss is foreseeable...
Read MoreThanks to David Kelly, Professor of China Studies, China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney, for translating the following opinion piece by political commentator Liang Jing: Global climate change, humanity’s...
Read MoreWith the Copenhagen climate change conference now underway, CNN looks at European calls for China and the U.S. to deliver in terms of carbon emissions reductions: Final negotiations at the conference “will be mostly about...
Read MoreThe Guardian reports from Ordos, Inner Mongolia on experimental reforms in China’s coal industry: Ordos is a city that few outside China know. But the future of global emissions, and global warming looks increasingly more...
Read MoreTime Magazine looks at the prospects for a serious commitment from China’s leaders to reducing emissions and cleaning up the environment: …On Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, Hu made a widely...
Read MoreOn China Law and Policy, Elizabeth Lynch writes a lengthy post, including a podcast interview with Jake Caldwell, director of Policy for Agriculture, Trade & Energy at the Center for American Progress, to help explain...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s top legislature will consider a draft resolution on climate change and a draft amendment to its renewable energy law at a bimonthly session scheduled from August 24 to 27, according to the legislative...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said there can be no global climate change deal without China’s support. Speaking in Beijing, he also praised China’s efforts so far to promote sustainable economic...
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