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China and the European Union agreed to hold regular talks to strengthen collaboration and deepen understanding on climate change

2010-04-30 00:00:00

April 30, 2010

A Chinese environmental update

China and the European Union agreed to hold regular talks to strengthen collaboration and deepen understanding on climate change, China Daily reported. Analysts said the move could rid both sides of misperceptions after last year’s Copenhagen summit.

A shift in voting power at the World Bank, designed to give emerging economies greater influence, has put China’s voting shares above those of Germany, Britain and France, according to Reuters.

Chinese and French officials signed a loan agreement under which 35 million euros (nearly US$47 million) will be used in an afforestation programme in Yunnan province, said hexun.com.

Thousands of Chinese and Japanese volunteers have taken part in an on-going experimental programme to use eco-friendly bags of corn hull to help prevent north China’s Tengger Desert from expanding, according to china.org. The barrier is being built between the desert and a 50-kilometre green belt created over the past seven years.

Tight electricity supply, price increases on thermal coal and drought in hydropower-generating regions may lead to power shortages in central and south-west China during peak hours this summer, Xinhua reported, citing the China Electricity Council.

Guangzhou is expected to take the lead in collecting fees for light-pollution in China, China Daily reported. No details have been revealed yet, however. Light-pollution, which has health ramifications, is becoming worse in the southern metropolis, dubbed "a city without night".

China will lift its 20-year ban on the entry of foreigners with HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and leprosy, China CSR said. Officials acknowledged that a ban has very limited effect on the prevention and control of such diseases.

Chinese citizens demanding a cleaner environment and more responsibility from industrialists have taken their fight to Hong Kong’s stock exchange, Asia Times said. About 175 Hong Kong-listed companies -- 15% of the exchange’s listed companies – have notched up 750 environmental violations on the Chinese mainland as of March, according to a study.

The Ecuadorean government has restarted negotiations with China on financing for a nearly US$2 billion Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant, according to Dow Jones Newswires.

China appears to be settling into a new role in Niger: business partner to the good-government-preaching military officers who ousted the country’s autocratic leader Madadou Tandja, The New York Times reported.

As property prices soar and urban redevelopment shrinks the supply of older, cheaper tenement buildings in Hong Kong, its thousands of “cage men” – who live in tiny steel-mesh cubicles -- are seeing their lives squeezed further, Reuters reported.

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