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With traditional heavy industries that rely on intensive consumption of resources, Jilin province in northeast China could help the move toward sustainability through trading in carbon emissions, according to a proposal from an academic in the province.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was in China Tuesday ahead of talks with top leaders on trade, climate change and security issues such as the Iran and North Korea nuclear standoffs.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s drive to promote clean coal technology is unlikely to reduce significantly the health risks of extracting what remains the dirtiest of fossil fuels, environmental group Greenpeace said.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s decision to slash export quotas of rare earth elements was a necessary step to protect the country’s environment, commerce minister Chen Deming said following criticism from Japanese officials.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Developers of clean-coal power plants in China fear for the viability of their projects after a U.N. carbon-credit scheme denied funding for a similar plant in India at the end of July.
A U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists call a gigantic scam
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planning body, said on Wednesday that it has selected a series of pilot carbon cities as a way of addressing the nation’s carbon emissions issues.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s plans to launch a series of pilot carbon trading projects starting next year underscores its need to curb its soaring greenhouse gas emissions — now believed to be the world’s largest.
HONG KONG (Reuters) – In the race to build hybrid cars and wind turbines to feed growing demand for green technology, China has one clear advantage, it holds the world’s largest reserves of rare earth metals and dominates global production.
Source: Reuters * Local market mulled but binding U.N. scheme still priority * Details of China plans to depend on fate of CDM, Kyoto * Pilot, piecemeal projects likely over 2011-2015 By David Stanway BEIJING …
Yunnan Province topped all other provinces and municipalities in China in terms of the total carbon emissions-trading projects with more than 260, reporters from Yunnan Daily learned from a recent symposium on climate change and the development of a low-carbon economy held in Kunming, Yunnan Province.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Three Chinese ministries will soon submit a proposal for an environmental tax on a trial basis, the China Business News reported on Thursday.
Cap-and-trade is dead in the U.S.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Water levels on the two main rivers which divide China from North Korea are dangerously high, state media said on Wednesday, augering potentially devastating floods for China’s diplomatically isolated neighbor.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Vast floating islands of rubbish and debris, accumulated after torrential rains and flooding, are threatening to topple a bridge and jam two big dams in China, state media reported on Wednesday.
Nomura Holdings Inc. plans to boost commodity trading in Asia, betting China will lead a global revival in demand for iron ore, coal and metals.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Flooding caused by unusually heavy rain near the North Korean border has cut water supplies to more than 300,000 people in northeastern China, state media said on Monday.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Thousands of tonnes of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so think people can stand on it, state media said on Monday.
BEIJING (Reuters) – As many as 60,000 metric tons of heavy crude oil could have been spilled into China’s northeast coastal waters as a result of an explosion that rocked the port of Dalian on July 16, Greenpeace said on Friday.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Authorities in China’s far west have bred and trained “an army” of silver foxes bought from a fur farm to fight a plague of rats threatening a huge expanse of grasslands, state media said on Wednesday.