In a joint statement issued on March 31 during Chinese president Xi Jinping’s US visit, the two countries have confirmed that they will sign the Paris Agreement at the UN summit held on April 22 in New York.A strong signal to other countriesIn the final text of the state......
China’s government hopes that co-ordinated development of Beijing and Tianjin with the neighbouring province of Hebei will help ease congestion, cut pollution, alleviate the soaring cost of living in the capital, spread prosperity and create new jobs. But a new report su......
The Shenzhen Environmental and Science Research Institute, Clean Air Alliance of China, and Energy Foundation China jointly-released their latest report “Multiple Wins for Blue Sky, Low-carbon and Economy: Shenzhen Experience.” According to the report, the main reasons......
RAP continues to provide input into the ongoing power sector reform efforts in China. As part of that work, RAP initiated a project to bring international power sector planning techniques to bear on the issue of coal generation overcapacity in China. Earlier RAP reports ......
As part of her visit to China in March, Janet McCabe, Acting Assistant Administrator for USEPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, and several of her colleagues met with representatives of environmental non-governmental organizations in Beijing. They had a wide-ranging discus......
Suzhou will try to cut its average PM2.5 density by 20 percent in 2016 from the 2013 level by carrying out 441 emission-control projects and upgrading 1,802 coal-fired boilers.The city completed 323 emission-control projects and upgraded 1,730 coal boilers last year. Off......
The action plan aims to manage the production, sale, and use of scattered coal; clean up four kinds of emissions (coal combustion emissions, VOCs emissions, industrial and vehicle emissions); reduce three types of dust (construction, road, and burning dust). Financial or......
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Environmental Protection received nearly 15,000 public tipoffs about pollution in 2015, with air pollution dominating the complaints, it said on Tuesday.All the complaints were lodged through the telephone hotline "12369" and......
(Beijing) – Chinese leaders looking for a new way to breathe easier plan to prohibit the use of high_sulfur coal for home heating among farmers and poor families in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Province region.Local officials in these neighboring jurisdictions, which togeth......
Beijing will award those who report environmental violations starting in April, authorities said Friday, as the capital tightens supervision amid worsening environmental woes. Whistleblowers will be awarded between 2,000 yuan (308.8 US dollars) and 50,000 yuan for provid......
