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Climate & Change, Sep 29th, 2009,
All we hear about lately is how China is such a bad polluter, how they’ve surpassed the U.S. as the number one emitter of greenhouse gasses and that they pursue industrialization at any cost. However, China’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions are still but a fraction of those of the U.S. and other industrialized nations. China, unlike America, also signed the Kyoto Accord, though they were exempted from adhering to any set numbers. This was a convenient sticking point of the Bush administration and was used as an argument against the U.S. signing the treaty, a sort of politically childish…
Tags: BYD, China, emissions, global warming, Green, greenhouse, Weihai, wind power
sustainable living, Sep 10th, 2009,
BBC News Channel headlines feature yet another segment highlighting environmental troubles in China. Two separate smelting plants have been closed recently after government crackdowns in response to protests from angry parents. One smelter in Shaanxi province was shut after 600 children were found to have severe lead poisoning. Only days later a second closed in Wugang city, Hunan province, thought to be responsible for emissions causing over 1,300 children to fall ill. That’s 70% of the population of those less than 14 years of age in four villages situated close to the smelter. The promised government relocation of villagers to…
Tags: children, China, lead poisoning
Uncategorized, Sep 6th, 2009,
Although China is often criticized for its play in climate change and global warning it has become a leading producer of renewable energy products like solar panels or wind turbines. In the global race to develop green technology the country also made its mark by dominating the lesser-known technology of solar water heaters. This little piece of technology, using more than a century old principles, is quickly becoming China’s symbol for the rising standard of living of its inhabitants and its leap into the era of clean energy. But is it all that green? Read the full story here
Tags: China, renewable energy, solar water heater
climate change, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 2nd, 2009,
TOXIC: Linfen, China – VBS travels to the single most polluted place on earth, the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China, where kids play in dirty rivers and the sun sets early behind a thick curtain of smog. – vbs.tv Linfen, China’s coal capital was named the most polluted city in the world by the Blacksmith Institute, an organization that focuses on identifying heavily polluted areas and providing help to the people who live in them. A city of over 4 million, Linfen is literally choked by smoke from coal fires and steel mills, many which operate illegally…
Tags: China, coal, environment, industrial, Linfen, Pollution
Climate & Change, climate change, Aug 29th, 2009,
The world’s worst polluter, China, has been criticized for their rapid growth at the cost of the environment. Indeed, the country is notorious for letting companies get away with pumping copious amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, for the good on their economy. Recently though, it seems China has given in to the rest of the world’s condemnation. China pledged to reduce their carbon emissions by 2050, as well as to rely on 20% renewable energy in 10 years. By next year, the government will have completed a 500-MW wind farm, which will be followed by another one with twice…
Tags: carbon emissions, China, climate change, Pollution
climate change, sustainable living, Videos & Documentaries, Aug 27th, 2009,
If I don’t take any risks, if I don’t make some sort of contribution, the work won’t be rewarding. There is a Chinese poem which says that a divine view is beheld from a perilous peak. -Wu Deng Ming, Chinese environmental activist ‘Black River – China’ is a documentary released in June 1996 by ABC Australia and distributed by Journeyman Pictures concerning the polluted Huai River basin, at the time home to 1/10th of China’s population. According to the report, the Chinese government’s goal was to have a clean river “by all costs” by the year 2000. That lofty target…
Tags: China, china pollution map, environmental activist, Huai River, Pollution, stephen voss
Climate & Change, Politics, Aug 21st, 2009,
After meetings in Beijing, Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, urged for climate treaty negotiations as China would appear to be committed to stronger steps to contain swelling greenhouse gas emissions. After his talks with Premier Wen Jiabao, Blair said on Thursday that climate change had moved closer to the heart of China. As the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases (from human activity) China is starting to explore goals for its next five-year development plan starting from 2011. The former British Prime Minister said the country was likely to adopt stronger measures to rein in emissions of carbon…
Tags: China, climate change, greenhouse gas, Pollution
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