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Steelmakers Raise Prices on China's Economic Growth Optimism
2013-07-23 08:20:57| Steel - Topix.net
Chinese steelmakers including Hebei Iron & Steel Group and Jiangsu Shagang Group Co.
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How will China's much-discussed Green Fence initiative affect U.S. recycling markets?
2013-07-22 23:37:05| Waste Age
It will take a long time to get going or won't work at all, maintaining Chinese consumption of U.S. recyclables. It will force a shift back to more U.S.-based manufacturing, creating more domestic recycling markets. It will force U.S. recyclers to search harder for other export markets. It will decimate U.S. recycling markets.
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EU pledges to support China's climate efforts
2013-07-19 12:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: China has asked the EU to help it tackle pollution related to heavy metals and water and waste treatment. Janez Potocnik, EU Environment Commissioner, told news agency Reuters that Brussels was investing EUR10m in a scheme called the EU China Environmental Sustainability Project, which is set to be launched today. "If you're following the statements of political leaders, obviously they are recognising that this is becoming a serious issue," Potocnik said. "They are also addressing it more thoroughly...
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Public trust crisis threatens China's nuclear power ambitions
2013-07-18 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As China pushes an aggressive expansion of nuclear power it is running into a major stumbling block - a breakdown of trust, post-Fukushima, in official assurances of public safety. A plan to build a $6 billion uranium processing plant in the southern province of Guangdong was canceled this week after about a thousand people took to the streets demanding the project was scrapped over public health and environmental fears. Beijing plans to plough tens of billions of dollars into the construction...
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EU hails China's commitment to climate change
2013-07-18 16:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The European Union said Wednesday that China, the world's largest carbon emitter, was willing to cooperate more closely to address climate change worldwide ahead of a key global pact due in 2015. Following talks with China's top climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua, EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said Beijing understood the competitive advantage of shifting to a low carbon economy. "(Xie) said very clearly that to go low carbon, that spells opportunity, that is the way we must have growth...
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