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China top officials outline greener 5 year plan
2015-10-30 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: China is likely to adopt tougher environmental targets in its 13th five year plan (FYP), based on a Communist Party plenum held this week. Although the content will not be finalised until early next year, the outcomes of the plenum will set the direction for Chinas economic and environmental policy making over the next five years. The meeting, which was held in secret and ended on Thursday, discussed how to green the country`s growth. Besides a stronger push to solve China`s environmental...
'Greener energy efforts in China help stall world's carbon dioxide emissions
2015-03-15 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence-France Presse: China burned less coal and generated more electricity from renewable sources last year to help global carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector stall. It was the first time there has been such a halt in 40 years during a period of economic growth, the International Energy Agency said. The slowdown came thanks to "changing patterns of energy consumption in China and OECD countries", it said. China, which is the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, used more renewable energy last year...
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High costs and a greener China expected to dampen thermal coal industry
2014-09-20 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: New research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) has identified major financial risks for future investments in the international coal industry, supposedly caused by a domino effect initiated by slowing demand in China. The research, published earlier this week has determined that the industry as a whole could potentially peak as early as 2016, with an expected industry decline as demand for the fossil fuel decreases. The analysis has evaluated $112 billion (68bn) worth of future coal mine...
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China: Browner, greener
2014-01-26 05:35:30| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: FAITHFUL readers of this newspaper will know that China is the worlds worst polluter. So it should come as no surprise that the country fares poorly on some important measures of pollution in a new global index of environmental performance. The shock is that it also stands out from the pack for its world-beating greenness in other areas on the same index. The 2014 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), a joint effort by Americas Yale and Columbia universities, was released at the World Economic...
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