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December 10, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
China and the United States have wrestled over a single complicated trust issue – the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of CO2 reductions -- at the UN climate-change meeting in Cancún, Mexico, The Washington Post reported. The outcome, some say, could determine the success or failure of the global...
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December 08, 2010
A global environmental update
The United States and China have significantly narrowed their differences on the verification of reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, providing hope that the UN climate-change conference in Cancún, Mexico, can achieve some modest success, The New York Times quoted officials as saying. The overall talks are...
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December 03, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
China may have gained more credibility in UN climate-change negotiations by moving to clean up its energy industry as the United States falls short of its own goals, Bloomberg News said. Since the failed 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, Obama administration efforts to enact legislation that would cap carbon-dioxide...
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November 26, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
China is expecting to spend more than US$450 billion on environmental protection during the 12th Five Year Plan, China Daily quoted vice-minster Wu Xiaoqing as saying. China’s environmental-protection market will become the world's biggest between 2011 and 2015, with annual growth of 15% to 20%, Wu said.
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November 19, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
China said it would not agree to any deal linking rich nations' aid to tighter oversight of efforts to limit greenhouse-gas emissions, Reuters reported. The remarks from Huang Huikang, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's special representative for climate-change talks, laid bare rifts between Beijing and developed...
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November 12, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
Soaring greenhouse-gas emissions in China and other emerging nations are eroding rich nations’ historical responsibility for causing global warming, and this could complicate UN talks starting in Cancún, Mexico, later this month, Reuters cited analysts as saying. The experts saw little prospect for an end...
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November 05, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
Some Chinese cities are failing to meet the challenge of sustainable development, posing a risk to Beijing’s strategy of relying on mass urbanisation to drive economic growth, according to an Urban China Institute study cited by Reuters. Sustaining urban growth without exhausting an already degraded environment...
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October 29, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
The use of carbon permits from industrial gas projects in China could be banned in the European Union because of their “total lack of environmental integrity”, the EU’s climate-change commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, told The Guardian. The European Commission is planning to clamp down on a massive carbon-trading...
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October 22, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
China unveiled its most ambitious conservation plan in a generation ahead of the opening in Nagoya, Japan, of the UN Convention of Biological Diversity, The Guardian reported. The plan designates 35 priority conservation areas, covering 23% of the country; promises state funds for protection; and sets a target...
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October 15, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
Some 1,355 small Chinese coal mines with a total production capacity of 125.19 million tonnes were shut down by the end of September, Xinhua said. The figures indicate that the National Energy Administration has surpassed its target of eliminating 121.67 million tonnes of outdated capacity this year in an effort...
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