Chinese banks should rethink lending to the hugely-polluting cement sector as new environmental laws come into force, says new reportChina’s cement industry would be liable for a huge bill if it had to pay the external costs of pollution, a finding that lenders to the se......
The China Standardization Administration published 11 national standards for greenhouse gas (GHG) management, including general principles for industry enterprise GHG emissions accounting systems and reports and specific rules for ten key industries, including power, iro......
China is striving to launch a nationwide carbon emissions trading market in 2017 to fulfill the country's commitment of a low carbon future, said a senior official on Thursday.China will start a nationwide carbon emissions trading market at a faster pace following smooth......
On November 10 and 11, grantee Beijing University of Technology held a training on air quality monitoring and forecast technology for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (JJJ) region and its surrounding areas. About forty attendees from local environmental monitoring centers and s......
The draft of China’s Environmental Protection Tax Law is expected to be submitted to State Council by the end of this year, with submission to the National People’s Congress expected in the first half of 2016. Four categories of pollutants (air pollution, water pollutio......
Experts at a 14 October workshop, “Climate Action and Environment Protection: Pollutants and Greenhouse Gases Co-control,” reached consensus that co-control under China’s Air Law should be promoted at both the policy and implementation levels.The workshop was organized......
More than 110 companies in northeastern China that failed to reduce pollution will be severely penalized by the government, the national environmental watchdog said on Thursday.Three of the companies failed to cut their production under the emergency response ordered aft......
NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- China is getting better at monitoring its energy mix and its emissions, precisely because the country understands the climate threat and is working with the rest of the world to fight it, a U.S. expert has said.China is working hard to meet ......
China could decouple its economic growth from its carbon footprint by putting greater emphasis on transition to renewable energies and the improvement of energy efficiency, said the head of the United Nations Environment Programme.Air quality is a challenge shared by man......
Beijing converted 5900 T/h (tons of steam per hour) of coal-fired burners to gas, exceeding its target of 3579 T/h for boiler reconstruction. District heating boilers contributed 5286 T/h and industry boilers 614 T/h. Six districts met the no coal burning boiler target. ......
