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Chinas economic growth undermining carbon-cutting efforts
2014-10-06 13:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Despite climate change commitments and improvements in its approach to greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, Chinas massive economic growth is jeopardising its efforts to build a low-carbon economy, new research has found. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, found for instance that in the province of Guizhou, carbon efficiency has improved by 98% but industrial production caused a 125% efficiency loss at the same time, leading to a 27% net fall in efficiency. The findings suggest...
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China's emissions cuts 'negated' by industrial boom, study finds
2014-10-05 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Emissions savings from China's huge investment in more efficient equipment and technology may have been outweighed by exponential increases in production, scientists have warned. The world's largest emitter saw carbon intensity, a measure of emissions per unit of GDP, rise three per cent from 2002 to 2009 despite efficiency improving in nearly all its provinces following a raft of investments in less wasteful technologies, according to new research from the University of East Anglia published...
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China's electronics industry sees slower sales growth, profit
2014-10-04 14:26:35| Electronics - Topix.net
China's electronics manufacturing industry saw sales value grow 9.7 percent year on year to 6.42 trillion yuan in the first eight months of 2014, latest official data showed. The growth rate marked a drop of 1.5 percentage points compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
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Hong Kong protesters turn to mesh networks to evade Chinas censorship
2014-09-30 14:29:01| Extremetech
The rather cramped streets of Hong Kong are currently lined with tens of thousands of people -- the Umbrella Revolution. The Chinese government, as always, has blocked and censored a number of social media sites so that mainland China can't see what's going on in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong protesters won't be so easily thwarted, however: They are already using a mesh networking app called FireChat, which allows the protesters to communicate freely without any kind of centralized cellular or WiFi network.
Study Points to Need for H7N9 Flu Virus Surveillance in China's Pigs
2014-09-29 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CHINA - Pigs in the south of the country have been infected with multiple avian influenza viruses, according to new research at South China Agricultural University. No samples from pigs were found to be positive for the H7N9 subtype of the flu virus, however.
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