As part of “Pollution Management and Environmental Health Business Week” in Beijing, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau hosted a series of events with the support of the World Bank. At an international workshop on ai......
The Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau released their data on Substituting Clean Energy for Coal on November 30. The resulting statistics revealed that coal consumption was reduced by more than 2.5 million tons this year.In light of recent concerns over he......
China’s leaders must reform energy subsidies and level the playing field for high and low carbon sources, Peng Peng tells chinadialogueA look at the numbers in China’s new plan for energy, passed on November 17, shows that its leaders will continue to prioritise both lo......
China will strengthen efforts to improve environment quality and enhance environment governance during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), according to a plan issued by the State Council on Dec 5.Improving the environment is one of the major issues for the world’......
As heavy smog blanketed North China's Hebei Province on Sunday, with levels of PM2.5 higher than 500 micrograms per cubic meter in places, some areas in the province are still failing to reveal complete pollution data, despite a damning report in August that said this co......
The plan for new coal capacity is unfortunate but the priority is utilising existing renewables efficiently, writes Anders Hove and Lydia McMullen-LairdChina’s highly anticipated electricity sector five-year plan was released earlier last month but was criticised by the ......
BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- China will spend a total of 700 billion yuan (102 billion U.S. dollars) on wind power during the 2016-2020 period.Wind power's share of the overall electricity mix should be increased to 6 percent by 2020, up from 3.3 percent in 2015, accordi......
Coal under fireWhile many are wondering whether US president-elect Donald Trump will keep the US in historic Paris Agreement on climate change, China has stepped up efforts to address the problem. Among those efforts has been shuttering coal-fired power plants or upgradi......
(2016-11-28)China could waste as much as half a trillion dollars on unnecessary new coal-fired power stations, a climate campaign group has said, arguing that the world’s top carbon polluter already has more than enough such facilities.China’s rise to become the world’......
Subsidies of up to 12,000 yuan will be given to drivers who replace their high-polluting vehiclesBeijing announced stricter emission standards for cars on Monday to improve air quality in the capital.Starting on Dec 15, gasoline cars with National I and II emission stand......
