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Xinhua reported a “huge gap” between China’s emissions reduction and energy-saving results for the first half of this year and targeted cuts, as shown by Ministry of Environmental Protection statistics. Although chemical oxygen demand and sulphur dioxide output fell, emissions of nitrogen oxides rose by more than 6% in the six-month period,...
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China led the way in 2010’s record worldwide increase in carbon emissions, Agence France-Presse reported, citing US energy department data. The country’s carbon output from burning fossil fuels rose by 212 million tonnes over 2009 figures, followed by the United States with 59 million tonnes more and India with an additional 48 million tonnes. The...
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To break the deadlock in UN climate talks, developing countries need to contribute concrete plans to reduce carbon emissions, China’s top climate-change official told The Guardian. Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the best chance of progress at upcoming talks in Durban, South Africa, was for developed...
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Sharp increases in temperature, driven by global warming, are melting China’s Himalayan glaciers, Agence France-Presse reported, citing a study led by Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers. Drastic retreats were observed in the glacial regions, along with large losses of mass and an increase in the area of glacial lakes, according to the study, published...
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Present CO2 emissions per capita in China are now equal to those of Italy but in 2010, they were higher than France and Spain, according to a new report by the EU's Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.The report predicts that by 2017 China will become the highest per capita emitter. The report, Long-term Trend in Global...
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China’s rail- and road-building boom is running short of money, the Associated Press said, citing reports that some projects have been suspended as workers and suppliers go unpaid. Many of the six million migrant workers employed in China’s massive railway build-up allegedly have not been paid for months, with some 10,000 kilometres of projects...
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More than 100 million Chinese farmers will move to cities by 2020, posing huge challenges for urban planners and social welfare systems, Agence France-Presse cited a new government report as forecasting. The document said China’s urban population would exceed 800 million people by 2020, up from 666 million in 2010, as more rural Chinese sought better...
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Myanmar’s decision to suspend the Chinese-backed Myitsone dam is straining relations between the countries, according to Reuters, but neither is likely to risk lasting damage. China is pressing for an "appropriate solution" to the shelving of the dam, a decision welcomed by critics who had warned of environmental damage and forced relocation...
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Severn Trent Services (STS) has been awarded a contract to provide wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) Zhang Gui Zhuang (ZGZ) with a deep bed denitrification system in Tianjin, China. Increasing the quality of wastewater treament, sludge processing and water reuse will be a core part of the project, which is set to create the largest deep bed denitrification...
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The provincial government of Shandong in China will provide CNY20.6bn ($3.2bn) for the construction of the eastern route of the South-North Water Diversion (SNWD) project over the next two years.
The money will be used to build 11 water projects along or near the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which passes Shandong.
The project consists of three routes -...
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