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Some Himalayan glaciers are advancing despite an overall retreat, according to a study that adds to understanding how climate change affects vital river flows from China to India, Reuters reported. The US and German research found that a blanket of dust and rock debris apparently was shielding some glaciers from a thaw -- a factor omitted from past global-warming...
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A Chinese environmental update
Time is fast running out for the Upper Yangtze Rare and Endemic Fish Nature Reserve to secure public support before it is trimmed, dammed and ruinously diminished, The Guardian reported. Conservationists expressed alarm after officials moved to redraw the boundaries of the reserve to allow construction...
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January 14, 2011
A Chinese environmental update
China and the United Kingdom signed trade deals worth US$4 billion – including agreements on luxury-car sales and oil exploration -- and announced that Beijing will loan a pair of giant pandas to Edinburgh Zoo...
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Population pressure, drought and climate change have made China the world’s biggest victim of desertification, Agence France-Presse quoted state media as saying -- and it could take 300 years to reclaim just one-fifth of desert land. Overgrazing, excessive land reclamation and inappropriate water use add to the problem in the country, where about 27%...
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With Hugh investment from the government China now controls half of the worlds manufacturing of Wind turbines which totals US$45 billion global market, China is following a similar pattern in the turbine industry as in other industries it has dominated....
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As more and more Beijing families can afford cars the Local Officials are losing the fight to avoid traffic gridlock. Officials are holdings meetings to seek public opinion on how to deal with the extra capacity of Cars. Greater investment in Public transport such as buses and trains is a potential way forward as well as building more roads , road tolls and...
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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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