Posts Tagged ‘China’
By NikkiJade • Jun 8th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This AlJazeera report highlights the challenge of balancing progressive environmental policies and the socio-economic impacts they have, with particular respect to China’s plastic bag ban on June 1, 2008. The accompanying post outlines more detail on the move and a brief global perspective of plastic bag policies.
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
UN Environment Programme, ENN–An unprecedented 1.5 million Chinese children have participated in a painting competition on the topic of climate change, in a sign of the country’s growing awareness of environmental issues. The children collectively submited 200,000 paintings.
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
The European Commission’s biggest-ever delegation to China heads for Beijing this week, hoping to progress from words to action on China’s soaring greenhouse gas emissions and its tense trade ties with Europe. China has shot to the top of the EU’s priorities after the country’s sudden emergence as a global economic power.
By NunoXEI • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Blog
China has already overtaken the US as the world’s “biggest polluter”, a report to be published next month says. The research suggests the country’s greenhouse gas emissions have been underestimated, and probably passed those of the US in 2006-2007.
If it becomes widely accepted that China’s future emissions are likely to be much higher than previously [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Construction will halt, heavy industries will close, and even spray painting will stop in order to clean Beijing’s polluted air for the Olympics — an issue that suddenly has taken a back seat to political protests.
An aggressive plan to temporarily shutter belching steel and chemical plants, cut back emissions by 30 percent at 19 heavy-polluting [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Arup, the creative force behind this project and many like it, is designing and creating the master plan of an eco-city near Shanghai. The first phase of Dongtan should be complete by 2010 and will include enough housing for 5-thousand people. The city will grow in phases, up to a population of a half million [...]
