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China Gets $18 Million Grant to Cut Carbon in Cities
2013-04-10 00:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The World Bank has approved a grant to China of more than US$18 million to support the government's efforts to ease traffic congestion and cut greenhouse gas emissions in large cities. Private car ownership and usage are rapidly increasing in China, plunging many large Chinese cities deep into clouds of polluted air and greenhouse gas emissions, made worse by growing traffic congestion. The grant from the Global Environment Facility`s Large City Congestion and Carbon Reduction Project aims...
China Working to Cut Idled Wind Farm Capacity, Official Says
2013-01-10 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: China, the worlds biggest carbon emitter, is making progress in connecting idled wind farms to the electricity grid, helping to address a roadblock slowing the development of wind power. The issue is in the process of improvement, given the efforts made by grid companies, Jiang Liping, vice president of the State Grid Energy Research Institute, said in a phone interview on Jan. 10, without disclosing the connection rate. The adoption of wind power in China has been damped by the electricity...
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