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California Partnering With Chinese Province to Fight Climate Change

The state of California announced a new joint initiative with the Chinese province of Hainan to help fight climate change.  State officials met with their Chinese counterparts to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Thursday; the MOU outlines five areas of cooperation between California and Hainan.  Reducing air pollution  Developing and implementing climate adaptation […]

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Chinese Scientists Calculate 1 Billion-Tonne Carbon Dioxide Emissions Cost of Canadian Wildfires

Chinese scientists estimate that the recent Canadian wildfires caused 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions by July 27, far exceeding Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. The area burned in Canada’s fire season this year is the largest on record, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC). It reported that by the end […]

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China’s New Problem: Climate Misinformation Driven by Nationalism

Much has been written about climate misinformation in the West but there has been far less scrutiny of the problem in China – a country that is both a significant carbon emitter and a leader in developing green technology. Annie Lab, our fact-checking project at the University of Hong Kong, looked into the diverse narratives […]

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Xiapu in SE China’s Fujian Coordinates Ecological Conservation, Economic Development

Xiapu County, located in Ningde city, southeast China’s Fujian Province, has successfully coordinated ecological conservation and economic development, transforming itself into a stunning coastal county with a thriving mariculture and tourism industry. With a coastline of 500 kilometers and a sea area of 28,900 square kilometers, Xiapu is blessed with abundant fishery resources, with more […]

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China’s Environment Improved Last Year, Ministry Says

China’s environment kept improving last year with a drop in recorded pollution, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said today.  The concentration of fine particulate matter in 339 prefecture-level cities was 29 micrograms per cubic meter, down 3.3 percent from a year ago, Jiang Huohua, deputy director of the ministry’s ecological and environmental monitoring department, […]

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China’s Global Security Initiative To Help World Combat Security Challenges, Ensure Sustainable Peace: Experts

With the global security environment becoming greatly undefined and complex owing to climate change, pandemics and geopolitical conflicts, China-proposed Global Security Initiative (GSI) can help the world combat various security challenges and ensure sustainable peace, experts said. The initiative reflects China’s commitment towards safeguarding world peace and firm resolve to defend global security based on […]

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China-Built CBD Project Promotes Sustainable Development in Egypt’s New Capital

The Central Business District (CBD) in Egypt’s new administrative capital is a model of sustainable development and a good example of friendly cooperation between China and Egypt, according to Chinese officials and Egyptian engineers. The project, constructed by China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), has achieved the goal of sustainable development “in terms of environment […]

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Delegates Recommend Chinese Juncao Technology To Promote Sustainable Production in Africa

Delegates attending an African regional workshop on applications of Juncao technology in the Rwandan capital city Kigali have recommended the adoption of the technology to promote sustainable agriculture production in Africa. Juncao technology is a priority project under the China-United Nations Peace and Development Trust Fund as it contributes to several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), […]

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China completes world’s second-largest hydropower plant

The China Three Gorges Corp.’s Baihetan facility is in full operation. At 16 GW, it is the second-biggest hydropower plant in the world. The largest hydropower cascade on the planet is located on the Yangtze river in China. State-owned China Three Gorges Corp., which operates the 22.5 GW Three Gorges hydroelectric station, the biggest power […]

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Green Hydrogen’s breakout year, China thinks bigger, and wind turbines blaze and fall

AGENDA | Our curation of the must-read news and analysis from the-week-that-was in the global renewable energy industry Recharge began 2023 with an in-depth look at why it’s lift-off time for green hydrogen, the key energy transition fuel that will need vast amounts of renewable power to produce – and the first days of the new year […]

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